This
week, I am very pleased and happy. Thanks to the gifts from alumni of Building Teaching Skills through
the Interactive Web, I could imagine the big picture of how my final project will look like. When I first take this course, I was afraid of failure. As you know, changes always come as a shock no matter how hard we prepare ourselves. When I read several articles from the graduates of this program, I could learn how sincere and thourough they have on their language teaching. I could picuture how they conducted 10-week program with the genuine effort. I used to complain my educational settings : techonological support in the school falters, students resist, or students performance suffers, etc. But I realized that the other teachers before me had the same obstacles and challenges in their settings. Reading more than 12 articles, I could rejuvanate myself with the fresh ideas and I tried to find the things that I could make best of what I have. Here is my general ideas on what I will conduct with my students for coming 7 weeks.
1) Involve all students in learning
-Students might find the joy of learning by actively engaging themselves in learning.
2) Lesson teacher's role
- Teacher is just a guide or facillitator of students' self-learning strategies.
- What Leo Buscaglia, a late educator said in his book " Living, Loving and Learning",
"Teacher is a bridge. After students pass the river, he/she will be gracefully collapsed."
I believe in his saying and keep my professional integity in check and help out students
as invisible forces.
3) Improve learners' belief in capacity
- Students can learn better if they feel they could. Is it a famously uttered "Pygmalion
Effect"? I will put in pracice those ideas in my classroom.
- To do this, students will prepare a project based on the Korean culture. They are
already fully familiar with Korean cultures. So if I conduct the English classes with
these contents, students are easy to succeed in making a substantial outcome in
language learning.
4) Offer opportunites to gain experience with language
- With the various steps involved, students can be serious with the reserach, but also
can be fun with English.
- As a teacher, try to find as verstile as possible in preparing themselves in a different
learning atmosphere.
5) Foster positive attitudes
- Making mistakes in writing and speaking is too natural to even English native
speakers. I foster the atmosphere of "It's OK to make a mistake", a very welcoming
and open field for them.
6) Encourage good study habits & Share them with the classmates
- Keep students' good habits ongoing and flowing
- Creating an sense of community and having students recognize cooperative learning
by sharing those good idea with the class
I hope that I could embody the rough ideas into the plausible and resilient lesson plans and course designs.
1) Involve all students in learning
-Students might find the joy of learning by actively engaging themselves in learning.
2) Lesson teacher's role
- Teacher is just a guide or facillitator of students' self-learning strategies.
- What Leo Buscaglia, a late educator said in his book " Living, Loving and Learning",
"Teacher is a bridge. After students pass the river, he/she will be gracefully collapsed."
I believe in his saying and keep my professional integity in check and help out students
as invisible forces.
3) Improve learners' belief in capacity
- Students can learn better if they feel they could. Is it a famously uttered "Pygmalion
Effect"? I will put in pracice those ideas in my classroom.
- To do this, students will prepare a project based on the Korean culture. They are
already fully familiar with Korean cultures. So if I conduct the English classes with
these contents, students are easy to succeed in making a substantial outcome in
language learning.
4) Offer opportunites to gain experience with language
- With the various steps involved, students can be serious with the reserach, but also
can be fun with English.
- As a teacher, try to find as verstile as possible in preparing themselves in a different
learning atmosphere.
5) Foster positive attitudes
- Making mistakes in writing and speaking is too natural to even English native
speakers. I foster the atmosphere of "It's OK to make a mistake", a very welcoming
and open field for them.
6) Encourage good study habits & Share them with the classmates
- Keep students' good habits ongoing and flowing
- Creating an sense of community and having students recognize cooperative learning
by sharing those good idea with the class
I hope that I could embody the rough ideas into the plausible and resilient lesson plans and course designs.
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