Introduction: Know your students, is a statement that I always keep in mind. This course helped me to understand how languages are learned and how these may be taught. I am now and will be able to in the future set effective lesson plans. I have learned how to help my students to develop their English language skills and through this program I have become aware of some my strengths and weaknesses in relation to teaching.
What is a good teacher? A good teacher is someone who identifies their own personal and professional qualities; as a result students may feel comfortable with the teacher. For this reason the teacher has to develop a healthy rapport with students based on respect and trust. The teacher is a knowledge …show more content…
I am very impressed with myself. I prepared the class a week ahead, I did the lesson plan and I stuck to it, but when I arrived in to the classroom, I realized that the students where starting a new book, only 4 from 12 had their own book, I asked myself: How am I going to deal with these issue? They need the textbook in order to work. I handled this situation by asking them to work in pairs or groups of three, everything else went well. The observer gave me a suggestion for next time, using the technology as an advantage, tell the students to take a picture of the book page, to follow the instruction and use the notebook to do the activities. I have been taking the control of the classes, keeping all the students busy, being flexible, dealing with problems, helping students to develop the four language skills of (reading, listening, speaking and writing). Teaching is a challenge, but is satisfying when you see the results after the class is …show more content…
In this case I will have to use creativity and imagination. Magazines can be used to teach almost anything, at the beginning of the course we can asked students to donate, in that way we will get plenty of them. The teacher and the students may bring items from home for development of topics such as family, food and activities. The whiteboard or blackboard is usually available to create stick figures on and draw items. The internet is of course unlimited resources but hard copies of activities can be made by the teacher who knowns they will not have access to
What is a good teacher? A good teacher is someone who identifies their own personal and professional qualities; as a result students may feel comfortable with the teacher. For this reason the teacher has to develop a healthy rapport with students based on respect and trust. The teacher is a knowledge …show more content…
I am very impressed with myself. I prepared the class a week ahead, I did the lesson plan and I stuck to it, but when I arrived in to the classroom, I realized that the students where starting a new book, only 4 from 12 had their own book, I asked myself: How am I going to deal with these issue? They need the textbook in order to work. I handled this situation by asking them to work in pairs or groups of three, everything else went well. The observer gave me a suggestion for next time, using the technology as an advantage, tell the students to take a picture of the book page, to follow the instruction and use the notebook to do the activities. I have been taking the control of the classes, keeping all the students busy, being flexible, dealing with problems, helping students to develop the four language skills of (reading, listening, speaking and writing). Teaching is a challenge, but is satisfying when you see the results after the class is …show more content…
In this case I will have to use creativity and imagination. Magazines can be used to teach almost anything, at the beginning of the course we can asked students to donate, in that way we will get plenty of them. The teacher and the students may bring items from home for development of topics such as family, food and activities. The whiteboard or blackboard is usually available to create stick figures on and draw items. The internet is of course unlimited resources but hard copies of activities can be made by the teacher who knowns they will not have access to