Thursday, 5 June 2008

We have started teaching!!


We have started teaching primary school and it would be great if we could share our feelings after finishing each class. In that way we could all benefit from each other's comments, suggestions, ideas, insecurities and hopes. Speak up!!

Thursday, 15 May 2008

Managing teaching and learning


In the last chapter we read about seating arrangement and the different student groupings teachers can use. Let's get practical! Why don't we suggest ideas about classroom activities we can use to ask our students to get in pairs or groups? Using English all the time, with students of all ages, how can we make them get in groups with the number of students we need?

Thursday, 10 April 2008

First Things First


MY FIRST CLASS AS A TEACHER TRAINEE

Describe the first lesson of your teacher training course.


  • What did the trainer do in your first class?

  • Why do you think the trainer chose to act or teach as s/he did?

  • What effect(s) did the trainer's actions in the first class have on you and the class?