LEARNER CENTERED TEACHING "TEACHERS ROL"

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.” 
H.L. Mencken

A teacher's role involves more than simply standing in front of a classroom and lecturing. In fact, even though a teacher spends the majority of the day in the classroom, the actual teaching component is only part of the job. An effective teacher understands that teaching involves  long periods of non sleeping time thinking on how our  students can receive a quality education.

Perhaps the most important role that we as future  teachers could never forget is  interacting with students. We must be leaders in the classroom and in the school, earning the respect of students and setting a positive example.

 They must be disciplinarians, doling out fair and consistent punishments to students who break the rules. At the same time, we must show care and concern for students. A teacher has the power to build up or tear down a student's self-esteem and make a student's day or ruin it in an instant, we have the power to make our students succeed in life or just being indifferent to it.

When interacting with students, a teacher must fill the role of a counselor, a surrogate parent, a nutritionist and someone who has the best interests of every child at heart. We have chose the best profession, I feel proud of the road I had chose, and that is my motivation to be the best teacher.

Next you are going to watch a video of a nice teaching way, I hope you enjoy it.

Bibliography

• The Quotations Page (The Quotations Page)

http://www.quotationspage.com/ 

• Weimer, M. (2002). Learner-centered teaching: Five key changes to practice. John Wiley & Sons. 

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uta/reader.action?docID=10653948

• Bonk, C. J., & Cunningham, D. J. (1998). Searching for learner-centered, constructivist, and sociocultural components of collaborative educational learning tools. Electronic collaborators: Learner-centered technologies for literacy, apprenticeship, and discourse, 25.

http://publicationshare.com/docs/Bon02.pdf

• Teach Like a Champion: Getting everyone's attention in class (YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC0ltKOwF_A&spfreload=10

 

SPEAKING

“It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. “

Karl Popper

Speaking is another productive skill; here a person should be able to use speech in order to communicate meaning to others.

Pronouncing words, use appropriate register, follow stress patterns, and so on, are some of the activities we may do. to produce an effective speech.

The main purpose on speaking is to communicate meaning, and there are some facts that we may consider. There are different types of speaking or text types such us discussions, presentations,or telling stories, this may determinate if we are in front a monologue or if turn-taking its present.

Hopefully we are able to use some interactive strategies to help us to communicate our meaning successfully; these may be gestures, eye contact. Movement and facial expressions are the ones that provide the plus to your speaking act.

This may be a difficult skill to teach to our students. Their personal background and abilities may contribute to their performance. However. we should provide the tools in the class to make them succeed. Personally the way we present the spoken language may be crucial for our students, they would see us as a mirror where they can be reflected.

Bibliography

• The Quotations Page (The Quotations Page)

http://www.quotationspage.com/ 

• The TKT teaching Knowledge Test Course (Mary Spratt, 2011)

 

LISTENING

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

David Hockney

Listening is considered, the second receptive skill, it involves responding to language rather than producing it. In other words listening involves making sense of the language sounds in order to understand a message.

The aim of the listening skill, is to understand the spoken language, this is not that easy as we may think, while speaking involves many features that may determine what the listener is understanding.

Conversations, stories, announcements, songs, instructions and more authentic material, are some of the different listening types. The purpose of developing the listening skill, is that listeners organize the information by connecting the speech in a coherent way.

There are some facts that may help us to have a good listening comprehension:  gestures, facial expressions and body language, are relevant to understand the spoken language without hesitation.

As future teachers, we must know how to introduce our students to the listening skills in a joyable way. it doesn’t matter if they are listening for gist, detail or for a global understanding, the main point is to make them enjoy it,in other words, to make the learning process significant.

The next video would show us, five secrets to improve our listening skills, in this way we would be able to teach in a good way.

Bibliography

• The Quotations Page (The Quotations Page)

http://www.quotationspage.com/ 

• The TKT teaching Knowledge Test Course (Mary Spratt, 2011)

• 5 Secrets to Improve Your English Listening Skills (YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtKX_H5wr5o