About the
topics already studied for me as a teacher in training as long as I’m not
working as a teacher yet I could say that this course so far has been a
re-discover experience, in fact I have picked up some nice points to take into
account when teaching English in teaching practice, first: students have many
different ways of learning and there are so many ways to teach taking into
account your learners proficiency level, in my last teaching experience I came
to realize that I had students that already knew the language and I was boring
them treating them like if there were beginners, at that time I did not do
anything about it now I know that if I have students with an English base I can
work on that, adapting my activities so they are not going to get bored and
their partners will get the topic information, for instance leaving out
repetition drills and involve them into a more useful language, it will be a
nice experience for the ones who have already know the language and a good way
to make the ones who are beginners realize that English is a useful tool in any
communicative situation, another fact from the topic “how learners learn
language” was about their ages, for me I managed that part pretty nice taking
into account my students ages and so.
Talking
about lesson planning I came to realize how useful a plan class is, giving me
the opportunity to predict my student’s errors so I can think on how to solve
them, also that was the most important part for me about that topic, falling
into students mistakes we got the grammar part, this is a very interesting
topic for me and I would love to share it with my students, in order to do this
some improvements should be applied, first: stop teaching grammar by explaining
the forms and rules then make the students repeat what is on the board, that is
not useful because the students are able to produce correct sentences in
exercises and test but hardly in communicative contexts, what I would do is to
apply more the communicative approach in order to give a real and a useful
context to the given topic, of course make the students be aware that you are
teaching them a new grammar context but in situations that are actually real,
the same would happen when teaching vocabulary, always trying to use new words
every class, that is something I was not aware of and I will apply when the time
comes.
