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Gamushara84
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 Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:39 am Post subject: What's up with NOVA teaching? |
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I tried to look in other threads, but this has never been fully explained. When you teach for NOVA, do you teach the same students each day, or do you teach different students all the time?
That is, do you rarely see the same students? |
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canuck
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:51 am Post subject: Re: What's up with NOVA teaching? |
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| Gamushara84 wrote: |
I tried to look in other threads, but this has never been fully explained. When you teach for NOVA, do you teach the same students each day, or do you teach different students all the time?
That is, do you rarely see the same students? |
In a bigger school, you teach different students all the time, but eventually see some of the same students. In a smaller school, there are only so many teachers and so many students. |
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Gamushara84
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: |
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So does that mean the lessons are not continuous? That's to say, one day you'll teach Lesson 5 to a group of students, and then the next day you'll teach lesson 7 to a group of students who've had a different teacher with a totally different teaching style?
If so, how are the students supposed to learn anything??!! |
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canuck
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| Gamushara84 wrote: |
So does that mean the lessons are not continuous? That's to say, one day you'll teach Lesson 5 to a group of students, and then the next day you'll teach lesson 7 to a group of students who've had a different teacher with a totally different teaching style?
If so, how are the students supposed to learn anything??!! |
Students are in a certain level, and they are taught lessons from that level. The order doesn't matter. Then when they are finished, they move up a level, or they repeat lessons until they are ready to move up to the next level. (in theory) |
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zombie_chris
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| Gamushara84 wrote: |
So does that mean the lessons are not continuous? That's to say, one day you'll teach Lesson 5 to a group of students, and then the next day you'll teach lesson 7 to a group of students who've had a different teacher with a totally different teaching style?
If so, how are the students supposed to learn anything??!! |
Students are in a certain level, and they are taught lessons from that level. The order doesn't matter. Then when they are finished, they move up a level, or they repeat lessons until they are ready to move up to the next level. (in theory) |
I'm new to the ESL game, but that sounds like the way it's done at Wall Street - these training centres all seem to be offering the same "learn English easier and faster" type deal. I was looking in another Nova thread, and the lesson format is almost exactly the same as WSI's "method".
The students pay a stupid amount of money to learn on a computer using a simple soap opera story (entertained by the crazy antics of Harry Carter and John Berry). The "teachers" use lessons to assess wheather or not students grammar and vocabulary is good enough to go to the next level. You can teach them the occasional new word or two, but the lesson structure and time is pretty tight. |
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canuck
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| zombie_chris wrote: |
I'm new to the ESL game, but that sounds like the way it's done at Wall Street - these training centres all seem to be offering the same "learn English easier and faster" type deal. I was looking in another Nova thread, and the lesson format is almost exactly the same as WSI's "method".
The students pay a stupid amount of money to learn on a computer using a simple soap opera story (entertained by the crazy antics of Harry Carter and John Berry). The "teachers" use lessons to assess wheather or not students grammar and vocabulary is good enough to go to the next level. You can teach them the occasional new word or two, but the lesson structure and time is pretty tight. |
Since your new, you should use the search function more. What you said above doesn't make sense. |
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Gamushara84
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| Gamushara84 wrote: |
So does that mean the lessons are not continuous? That's to say, one day you'll teach Lesson 5 to a group of students, and then the next day you'll teach lesson 7 to a group of students who've had a different teacher with a totally different teaching style?
If so, how are the students supposed to learn anything??!! |
Students are in a certain level, and they are taught lessons from that level. The order doesn't matter. Then when they are finished, they move up a level, or they repeat lessons until they are ready to move up to the next level. (in theory) |
Oh, this makes senese...although I would have enjoyed teaching the same group of students each time. Thanks for your help, canuck! |
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ghostrider
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| I just started at my branch. After 2 days, I've already seen quite a few students twice, but I'm not in Tokyo, though really close. |
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gaijinalways
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| Any language school has the same situation, where if you're at a larger school, you will not see some students regularly. I had a student who started last November ask if I was a new teacher. I informed him I am coming up on 10 years at that company. It just depends on a teacher's schedule and because I teach there less at certain times of the year, that and a 36-teacher roster means I am likely to not see some students, if at all. |
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madeira
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| GA, not true if you work at GEOS. Unless you're a sub, you have the same students every week. |
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Perpetual Traveller
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Ditto for AEON, we generally teach the same groups every week.
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