This unit focuses on very common problems we might have in the classroom, such as reluctant students, or students using their native language instead of English...
The aim to learn a new leanguage is to be able enough to communicate to a foreigner one day, in order to express ideas, opinions, to ask for something and even for an aid...
This unit is talking about the common problems teachers face in class, when teaching a lesson and their solutions in different level of the learners...
I've encountered the Phonemic Symbols before but I've never really memorized them, or at the very least try to familiarize myself with them prior to this lesson...
Eye contact, gesture, the voice, and using students? names are the four essential elements that help a teacher to hold the students? attention, reduce Teacher Talk Time, and encourage students to participate while to maintain discipline...
I've learnt that teachers often forget to do writing excercises during their lesson time, but it s very important to give students the time to learn to write properly...
From watching these lessons, I learned that a teacher's attitude and desire to engage the students plays a huge role in the effectiveness of the lesson...
It is important to pick topics of interest when teaching reading and listening because if a student is not interesting in the material it is easy for them to drift from the conversation...
As someone whose worked in formal and informal education settings for 20 years the information in this chapter wasn't particularly new, but it was an excellent reminder...
Benefits from small-group learning in a collaborative environment include celebration of diversity, acknowledgment of individual differences, interpersonal development, actively involving students in learning and more opportunities for personal feedback...