For English language teachers or other languages, and for language students as well.
1978. The best victory for you
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The first and best
victory is to conquer yourself. To be conquered by yourself is, among everything
else, the most shameful and wicked thing. According to Plato. / Photo from: dargol
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One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “I’ve recommended you to plan each class: maybe one or two goals, some activities to implement during the class, combining listening with speaking, etc. However don’t plan too many things: with your experience you’re getting capable to plan the class and some useful activities in not much time – you know what your students need, what they enjoy, what you can demand from them, etc. Now I tell you not to plan one class, next class, for example. Don’t be afraid. You, maybe somehow inadvertedly or unaware, know what fits in that class, and you have your real students in your mind – you do know them. Sometimes you’ll see that that class turned out well, even better than some very much outfitted and planned classes. As well you’ll feel better, and likely your students also will feel good, for they’ll see you manage and conduct the class without any planning notes. Alike the students will see you’re so committed with their learning. T
We have agreed that you may be a foreign or second language teacher, and you may think that you have to foster communication in class, and not only grammar rules, though these latter ones are of importance anyway. Well, the good teacher asks his or her students in class so there may arise a lot of communication. Ok, that seems the right way. And that good teacher asks in some special way, let me explain. He or she addresses those questions tactfully, bearing in mind he is addressing persons, with a lot of dignity, the one any person deserves. Any student is unique too. He asks questions or anyway he prompts to create that communication, which is among persons. In other words, that teacher does not confine himself to implement the textbook activities, yet he gives, with those questions, affection and benevolence love, seeking what is good for the students. Affection, yet with nothing posh or silly or ridiculous, but with prudence at the same time. He gives affection to the quest
You may be a teacher, one of a second or foreign language. Well, that’s is a marvelous enterprise. Now I wanted to draw some lines about what a good lesson could be, according to my experience plus others’ one. Thus we can start the class with a warmer or warm-up activity. I ask my dear students about today’s date, and about the weather. Then, within that warmer, we practice saying sentences with such or such grammar structure, one we are practicing lately. Or they answer some questions by me. Or by them, to each other. Then we work on the homework set on the previous lesson. Every day I set some homework, at the end of the class. And usually they’ll have to review what done in class – me giving examples of what and how they may revise at home. And next we may work either on photocopies I hand out, or on the textbook we are working on. Much weight should be given in class to speaking in the target language. I plan each and every lesson, on a notebook for that purpose, even some
We teachers will be prone to help and assist and aid any student who could need us. We have to detect any problem amid our students, though we can have many. We ought to have a rather small number of students per class, but this isn’t possible sometimes. Anyway our teaching will address each one of the students. We can look in their eyes. Eye contact is pretty important. Remember please that a number of kids or adults has been entrusted to us! We should guess our students’ needs. We work with people, but individual people never a mass. I know that you know how to assist your students and you’re trying to improve this service, and planning classes with real students in mind. One day I will tell you - this is extreme – how a teacher saved a kid that had swallowed the cap of his pen... / Photo from: www hccs edu
Today is Saint Joseph. Have a nice day if your name is that one. He was the father of Jesus above all when this latter one was young. Better said, he was Jesus’ father always, also when he was and is in Heaven. Fathers can turn to Saint Joseph in order to educate their children. And not only fathers, but mothers, teachers, educators. He taught Jesus to work as a carpenter. He may teach our students to work nice and hard. For those of you that are not Christian, now you may learn that Jesus Christ is true God and true man. / Photo from: HolyFamily wau org
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