4a.) Reflecting on Teaching: I am proficient in the area of reflecting. After every lesson I focus on my strengths and weaknesses in the area of planning, classroom environment, meeting the needs of my diverse learners, and classroom management. When looking at my strengths and weaknesses I write down what went well and what I may change in the future to make the lesson more successful. I have also asked both Dr. Bausman and Mrs. Loring ways to improve with some of my teaching techniques. For example
their transition from student-teacher to the profession of teaching, and for this reason, the concept of workplace mentoring for them has got popular acceptance to give them access
and the better the learning. 3.) Guiding Principles in the Selection and Use of Teaching Strategies: 3.) A non-threatening atmosphere enhances learning. 4.) Emotion has the power to increase retention and learning. 5.) Learning is meaningful when it is connected to the students’ everyday life. 6.) Good teaching goes beyond recall of information. 7.) An integrated teaching approach is far more effective than teaching isolated bits of
Professional Development Through the Reflective Learning Scenario - A case Study of Somalia. Background Teachers professional development has attracted more attention in the last few decades within policymakers, practitioners and researchers, knowing that the fact that the teachers in the reform of the education system put new requirements and new standards of quality. The term "professional development" usually means increasing teachers’ awareness of teaching profession, how it works and how they
is one of the toughest jobs in the country. There is so much involved in becoming a teacher. Teachers have to be exceptionally good at the core subjects such as English, Irish and Maths and also be capable of teaching many other subjects such as physical education, art and music. Teaching so many subjects would be next to impossible without the aid of a lesson plan. A baker wouldn’t make a cake without flour and eggs, so why would a teacher educate a classroom full of children without a lesson plan
compulsory subject in the official education program. Then, the need for study abroad, jobs, or even travel has fostered the use of communicative skills in real-life contexts. Therefore, the awareness of intensifying the use of communicative skills in teaching and learning English has been raised highly. However, it is still a challenge for both Vietnamese teachers and students to take the best advantages of the language skills and meet the goal. As communicative skills are considered to be one of the
in their studies. The independent variables identified are the face-to-face sessions and open distance learning. The dependent variable is the academic performance of students. 1. Literature review 1.1 Face-to-face contact sessions Face-to-face teaching is a common term used
themselves. With the traditional teaching style that teachers use, the teachers and the students doesn’t have any interaction because the teachers are the one who is responsible for all the decisions with concern to the curriculum, the types of teaching styles that they are going to use and the different form of assessing the student’s performance therefore preventing the students’ educational growth. But today teacher-centered learning has been replace by, a new teaching
to keep in mind is that I need to be flexible and willing to use a mixture of teaching methods since every student learns differently. “The process of L2 learning is very much an individual experience, determined in part by the complex interaction of an individual personality, targeted aspects of the L2, and particular learning events” (Macdonald, Yule, and Powers 90). Therefore, I need a flexible approach to teaching that allows me to adjust methods as needed. Every person who enters a classroom
1.Background to Stage 2 I mostly teach Cambridge exam courses at high schools in Rome. My two week Orientation Course was at the British Council in Valencia where we had an A2 level class of professional adults. The aim of my lesson was to use reported speech for message giving and complaining. 2. Reflect and comment on your beliefs as a teacher • I believe language acquisition occurs best when the context is of interest to the student .Take a group of teenagers using should to give advice