WAYS OF TEACHING

How can we raise student awareness about how students can best learn and help them find more ways of learning English more effectively and productively? Exemplify this through the lens of a student and prospective ELT practitioner. 

Well, as a student I think that in order to increase my awareness I need to have clear my personal goals, be conscious about my weaknesses and my strengths; also I need to know my learning style because everybody is different, and everyone learn in different way. So I shouldn’t worry about my mistakes; however, I have to pull my energy and effort in improving every day. On the other hand I’m a practitioner in a school, and every day I have to do my best, I apply my lesson class in order all of them achieve the learning because all of them have different learning styles, and I encourage them to have clear goals about what they want, what they want to be, or what to do in the future, and some of them really want to improve their skills in English and are conscious about the needed of learning English, in addition I try to know their needs, and according to their  needs I plan the activities. Every time I tell them that I know how they feel when they make a mistake, errors, homework assignments because also I’m a student but I encourage that all of that its essential in the learning process, and the key of be success in life is to be conscious about our weaknesses; moreover, do everything necessary to improve. 

        

How would you deal with error correction in your classroom? 

 I think error correction should be immediately, for example when I’m teaching, and they are repeated after me, I hear that some students are pronouncing so different; whereas, others just don’t repeat because they feel afraid to make mistakes, and the rest laugh about them; herefore, I tell them that all of them have to repeat, and if someone make a mistake, it doesn’t matter because is the way to learn. What I make is to write on the board the words that are difficult to pronounce for them, and at the end of a dialogue, or the lecture we repeat that words much times until they pronounce well, first of all as a group and then one by one.              

What seems to be more difficult: teaching teens or teaching large classes?

 Well in my point of view, teaching large classes as well teaching teenagers is difficult because if you are teaching large classes you’ll have a lot problems like the space, the attention at the back, goals achievement, deep learning ,and not enough time; although you can  face with all of these problems applying different  techniques, methods, or approaches.  For instance set rules at the very beginning, increase their motivation, sitting arrangement. On the contrary teaching teens also is difficult because they are at that important stage between childhood and adulthood, so they have to face with many problems, and changes. They are complicated, shy, and unrespecfull; therefore, they are in conflicts almost all the time; However, we can use also different techniques in order to maintain the discipline, such as set rules at the very begining, create interesting activities relate to their interestings, projects about music, sport, fashion, or celebrities. They want to be treated responsibly, but they still enjoy having fun during the class, keep the activities varied, don’t spend too long time on any one thing. Teaching to teenagers, or large classes can be great fun, but only if we take into account the right way to do it.

                                      

     TEACHING TENEEGERS VRS TEACHING LARGE CLASSES