domingo, 7 de noviembre de 2010

LARGE GROUPS

AFTER PEDAGOGICAL PLANNING
Well, as the person in the video says, when teaching a large group of students, the teachers need to be well organized with everything, they have to plan very well their classes and expect situations that happen with students, unexpected situation like when students misbehave, or something goes wrong. The teachers’ lesson plans have to be very clear and well structured so that he won’t have problems at the moment of developing the class. The teachers have to discover student’s needs and abilities so they do not have to assign homework at the very beginning.
CLASSROOM LEARNING SYSTEM
First, the classroom has to be well organized, and it has to have all the material needed to teach. The physical space is really necessary because students need to be able to move from a place to another, and they need space to develop group activities. The teachers have to encourage students participate in all the activities, and they also have to consider volunteering because there are some students who really enjoy to participate, and teachers do not need to push them.
STUDENT BEHAVIOR
The teachers have to respect students; they have to be a clear model. If the teacher respects all students, the students will respect them too, but if a student does not respect the teacher, he or she will have the right to talk to him in order to stop that kind of behavior. The teachers have to establish rules and paste them on the wall. The teachers have to respect and make students respect the rules established inn the classroom. When a student misbehaves, the teachers have to investigate the reasons why that situation happened before punishing the students.
The teachers have to treat all the students the same way. He has to be a good teacher and a good friend for all the students.
I think this these factors suggested in the video can work in our country because there are teachers who like to work with large groups, and they can manage all the students. In my life of student, I have had teachers who have applied these three factors when teaching groups of 50 students, and I think teachers have to take into account these factors because they are very important to succeed with large groups of students. I think some of these suggestions are not needed when teaching large groups of adult students because adult`s behavior is very different. They are more interested in learning or they are learning because they really want to learn and they know it will be useful in the future.

INTERNET TOOLS

I think using internet tools when teaching English is really important because nowadays, internet has become really necessary in the different fields of our lives, and education is not the exception. Internet has to become a necessary source for English teachers because we can find a lot of activities that can help students understand or develop the different skills used in English. For example: when I am using internet, two hours or three seem to be just one because I feel very motivated and I never get bored.
Some people say that teachers cannot live without internet, but I think that internet makes life easier because when you need something, you just start surfing and you find whatever you want. In the past, people did not use internet and the teaching and learning process was successful because they really liked to read books. It means that we have changed the reading habit by the use of internet. In my case, I get bored when reading boring books, but I never get bored even though when I am reading boring topic through internet.
When using internet, I can say we use two kinds of intelligences. The first one is the intrapersonal intelligence because there are lots of people who use internet to make friends, and they have friends only through internet when at school, they are very quiet, they don’t like to talk with their classmates. Visual intelligence is the second one we use when using internet because people learn through watching videos, movies and pictures through internet.