Reflective Teaching

METAPHOR DRAWING Being a teacher means that you are someone who possess  variety of skills and values that are supposed to be reflected on their teaching practice. As English teacher I consider myself to be a manager who has different identities through which I try to take control over the different situations that happen in the classroom. One of the identities that Farrell recognize in teaching is the teacher as entertainer, he describes this kind of teacher as someone who cares about learners’ emotions and feelings. Since I work with primary students, I identify with this identity as I try to have my students comfortable and learning while enjoying the activities proposed for the class. In relation with this, I believe I motivate my students to learn English as something that will help them to find better opportunities for their lives in their future. In the drawing I did, I tried to portray my teaching style as one in which students will have fun and enjoy while...

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOW REFLECTIVE I AM ? As teachers we find many and distinct opportunities to reflect about, the setting in which we are immerse unescapably pushes us to make a profound thinking on the way we are acting and the results obtained. As professional educators we expect to be good actors in teaching and leraning development. Our learners are the ones who provide us with information about how good/bad we/they perform in class, so is there when we stop and reflect about it. In terms of being a reflective teacher, I consider myself as someone who really cares about his learners in the sense of making them feel good or entertained while learning a language that help them for their future. I usually observe think of situations happening throughout my class, some students' misbehavior, lack of  interest and workin. sometimes I am flexible to change from activities based on the conditions given  (Reflection in action), and I try to think up other ways ...

EXPLORING TEACHER'S BELIEFS Nowadays, learning languages is promoted to be a necessity and no a luxury. varied benefits and advantages are spreaded as an open door to success.  When it comes to the English language, one of the most common reasons to learn it, is its raising relevance  on economical, cultural, and political fields. English seen as a lingua franca has become in the main instrument when referring to communitive purposes. Many people beging studying English  and some of them successfully achieve the process, but some others fail beacuse they are not motivated enough and find the language difficult to learn. I consider that learning English as any other language demands a lot of time practice, motivation, discipline and hard work to accomplish the development of the different linguistic skills. Currently, English is not considered as a unique dialect  belonging to a specific region or country   anymore. As the English language is bein...

REFLECTIVE ON MY TEACHING PRACTICE JOURNAL Wednesday, September  25 th MAPPING                        ...................-... INTERPRETATION        ...................... CONTESTING                  ...................... ACTING                             ...................... On this day, I design a lesson for first graders in which the topic was some prepositions of place such as In/On /under. Before this class, I had already taught them a song related to the three positions objects could be placed. With their hands, they had to do the movements in the song. As warming up activities, I begin chanting some rhymes we usually chant when starting the English class. The purpose of these chants is for them to feel comfortable and to let them know it’s time for th...

Reflecting Teaching and its impact on Foreign Language Teaching

Insights about reflective teaching We as teachers usually reflect upon our teaching practice, and most of the time we are not aware of this, we might be following the stages suggested in theory even when we have never been taught about it. To know how to reflect demands to be conscious of this rigorous process and to explore every phase that comprises it. Reflective teaching is a systemic process that requires thinking, questioning, reflecting, and acting. In this regard, Mr. Au Young highlights in the first place the importance of making questions "to get to know more about yourself " in terms of identifying strengths and weaknesses, so actions will be taken. He also proposes to ask or talk to colleagues about our teaching practice to understand the possible reason for the problem tackled. Devoting time to reflect is needed and should be done whenever possible. The reason for reflecting is promoting life long learners to make them producers of their own learni...