TT2 Tuesday My own teaching method

CIBF escribió:IF YOU WERE ASKED TO CREATE A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR ENGLISH TEACHING, WHAT COULD BE SOME OF ITS PRINCIPLES?
INCLUDE AT LEAST FIVE PRINCIPLES. USE THE INFORMATION OF THE METHODS YOU HAVE STUDIED AND DON´T FORGET THE THEORIES OF LEARNING.
READ AT LEAST TWO PROPOSALS FROM YOUR CLASSMATES AND GIVE YOUR OPINION NO LATER THAN SATURDAY.

RIGOBERTO LUIS escribió:MY OWN TEACHING METHOD.
BY RIGOBERTO LUIS V.
A) CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT FOR THE STUDENTS ACCORDING WITH THEIR AGE, NEEDS, FEELINGS, BESIDES TO KNOW THE CONTEXT WHEN WE ARE GOING TO WORK. (VITGOSKY)
B) PREPARE A LESSON PLAN FOR THE KIND OF STUDENTS AND THEIR APTITUDES, PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE, INTEREST. (GARDNER, MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES).
C) INTRODUCE THE TOPIC TO THE STUDENTS WITH SHORT GRAMMAR RULES AND VOCABULARY INCLUDING THE READING AND TRANSLATE INTO THE STUDENTS NATIVE LANGUAGE IN ORDER TO MOTIVATE THEM AND TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOTH LANGUAGES. (JEAN PIAGET)
D) EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE TARGET LANGUAGE IN THE CLASSROOM. AFTER THE SS. KNOW THE DIFFERENCES IN BOTH LANGUAGES THEY CAN BE READY TO FIND NEW WAYS TO COMMUNICATE IN THE NEW LANGUAGE WITH THE RULES OR VOCABULARY SHOWED BEFORE AND SOME NEW WORDS THEY FIND OUT. (JEAN PIAGET).
E) KEEP THE STUDENTS BUSY WITH A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES ACCORDING THE TOPIC (GAMES, DRILLS, DIALOGUES, ETC.) TO PREVENT INDISCIPLINE OR MISBEHAVIOR.
F) ADQUISITION OF THE COMPETENCE FOR LIFE. WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THE STUDENTS GOT, DO COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES OF REAL LIFE (OPPORTUNITIES TO GET INTO THE REAL LANGUAGE).(ROGERS)
G) PRESENT A TASK WHEN THE STUDENTS WILL SHOW THE NEW KNOWLEDGE LEARNED. USE OF THE FOUR SKILLS: FIRST RECEPTIVE SKILLS (LISTENING, READING) AND THEN PRODUCTIVE SKILLS (SPEAKING, WRITING).

NohemiHeCo escribió:IF YOU WERE ASKED TO CREATE A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR ENGLISH TEACHING, WHAT COULD BE SOME OF ITS PRINCIPLES?
INCLUDE AT LEAST FIVE PRINCIPLES. USE THE INFORMATION OF THE METHODS YOU HAVE STUDIED AND DON´T FORGET THE THEORIES OF LEARNING.

I think I could use many principles, but the most important for me are these:
1.- To know the students´ age, needs, interest and aptitudes.
2.- Prepare a Lesson Plan according to the first principle.
3.- Use attractive and meaningful material from internet, the students have to see that we have in touch with the tool that they love: “internet”. Use technology.
4.- Create a good environment, where the students feel comfortable. They can work in the classroom or outside.
5.- The teachers have to look confidence, and nice.
6.- Check what is the best moment to give a grammar explanation because is very difficult keep the students´ attention for a long time, and the remaining time the students have to practice the topic.
7.- The teacher doesn´t have to limit the ideas, the teacher has to organize activities which the student has to exploit all their knowledge.
8.- It´s important don´t force them, don´t interrupt them and don´t assess them while they are working. They have to be free.
Without to forget the theories of learning:9.- Use games; play is important and necessary. (Jean Piaget)
10.- The children develop their activities by interacting with other children. (Vygotshy)
11.- Identify children´s intelligences. (Howard Gardener)
12.- Previous knowledge is important. (David Ausubel)

I´m agree with Beatriz Diaz, according that: 6.The role of teachers should be mediator, moderated, coordinator. And the teacher is the leader in the group, the teachers have to be able to solve the problem in his o her group.
And I´m agree with Jessica too in every one of her principles, it’s important have a good relationship with the students and establish the rules since the beginning, and everybody have to agree.

Elizabet Domínguez escribió:
"My Creative Method"

1. Memorize lists of vocabulary items and their meanings.
2. Structures and rules are learned by example, demostration not formulation.
3. Step by step progression of material based on linguistic sequency.
4. Use of mechanical drilling to teach production and discrimination.
5. Emphasis on speaking.
6. Students self correction of errors.
7. Write sentences in the target language, using the previous rules and vocabulary.
8. Students talk more freely about themselves or other people in the real world.

Hi, this is Alicia Sandi. I think your principles are good according what you want to teach or work on, but I would like to ask you something, so what do you want that your Ss to memorize 'lists and meanings' if they are not significant for Ss? May be if Ss have a meaningful topic for them the lists could be significat for them,well that is what I think, respectfully.

alicia sandi maldonado escribió:I think that the best method is one that were the most useful for me according to my own necessities with my students. What is certain is that I would consider the multiple intelligences theory. Furthermore my method would be based in a holistic teaching-learning process.
PRINCIPLES:
1. Teachers seek the students' points of view in order to understand their styles of learning to respond to their learning needs and interests.
2. Step by step progression of material, generally from easy to difficult.
3. Students self correction of errors (mistakes). Students need to understand their errors.
4. Structures and rules are learned by example, demonstration not formulation, analogy rather than analysis.
5. Emphasis on speaking and communication.
6. Students talk more freely about themselves or other people in the real world (production stage).
7. Students perform real life tasks such as getting information about airplane timetables or making a presentation on certain topic.

• Well, I think that before applying or creating a method, we have to take into consideration the age, aims and previous knowledge, of the language to teach, as well as, of the knowledge in general possessed by the learner. Always having in mind that a combination of methodologies is better than using only a particular one, because in most of the cases there are too general and using only one will leave gaps in the students understanding. 
  
  Almost exclusive use of the target language: always encouraging students to avoid making translations. The reason for this is that thinking is speaking with ourselves and if we get used to translate everything we will become slow thinkers. 
  And unnatural speakers.
  
  Emphasis on speaking: leaving the written study for a more advance phase. Also emphasizing the speaking skills of the learner will give him a more intuitive use of the structures and rules of the target language. And in a second stage they can learn grammar in a more natural fashion than those students who start learning grammar without having getting in touch with the language to learn. This is more efficient because learning about a language prevents from communicating effectively with it.
  
  Team work: this will let the learners develop their thinking abilities by interacting and  they will be evaluating their mates at the same time that they are being evaluated by them 
  
  Drilling while playing (or drills disguised of games): is a useful technique to learn almost anything for students of every age.
  
  As the learning process is, in first place, responsibility of the student; for a better and faster learning to take place there is advisable that the student   finds the way to get enough exposure to the language (tv shows, movies, comics, books; etc.). This is, nowadays, easy because of the Internet, as one can view, hear or read, meaningful information for each one without spending too much money or time  in it.