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guangho
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| I find that I do not plan in the formal sense- rather, I make a list of objectives that need to be accomplished in a given class and go through them-adding more objectives along the way if need be or striking some if for a reason or another they are inappropriate. This way I can guide the classes with the objectives as goal posts without being too rigid in structure- I think rigidness takes away the communicative potential of teaching. |
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sheeba
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| Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:33 am Post subject: |
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Read into 'Needs Analysis'
Or at least think about it !! |
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Gregor
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
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| If there's no time to plan classes, how did you fare in the beginning? Did you just wing it? This situation might lend itself to desperate last minute, flying by the seat of one's pants teaching. |
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You will develop, most likely, a "quick and dirty" way to accomplish virtually the same thing - all the while keeping in mind method. You will find that after you have taught for a while - you will frequently revisit certain functions and will find them much easier to do the second, third, or even fifteenth time around.
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| Don't worry--it does get easier! |
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| You will soon have your OWN list in your head of things that go well together - that is part of the "learning curve." |
It all sounds cryptic, doesn't it?
In my first teaching job, immediately after my TEFL cert. course, I took a job that was a newbies's nightmare - ZERO materials. I was in a very small branch of the University of Guadalajara and I had to go to the campus library in hopes of finding some materials. I had to make lesson plans the way I did so on the TEFL course, and it SUCKED.
But that's a worst-case scenario. If you take your first job with a language school (as opposed to a public school or university), they will likely hand you a textbook, like Headway or New Interchange. With those, the lesson is already planned for you. Oh, sure, as you go along, you will likely come up with your own ideas to help the students in your class.
Mind you, students in different countries (with different first languages) have different problems, but if you just go by the lesson plans as given in the teachers' book, you'll have a good starting point, and from there, just pay attention to your students.
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The biggest mistake that newbies make is sticking too much to the lesson plan and not paying enough attention to how the students in THIS PARTICULAR CLASS respond to the lesson.
Go with the lesson plan given, but be prepared to slow things down or speed things up as the students' needs dictate. If you are aware of the students as you go along, you'll be FINE.
And your learning curve with shrink. |
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