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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| curlyhoward wrote: |
| It's really not necessary. |
I voted yes, but you are right. Not a hell of a lot of serious teachers hang out here. |
Not necessarily. Most Dave's posters (and this would include you, transmogrifier) are lifers who work at a university. With all their experience, I'm sure they're good teachers. I'd like to hear some of their good ideas. And I'd like to hear some ideas from you. How does one become a good teacher? What are some tips and advice? |
Being able to give valid, useful, quality feedback and then providing opportunities to utilize that feedback, is the most important factor for a university professor. I teach a lot of academic writing, and it involves a lot of marking, but it is worth it because the students can see where they can improve and in a great many cases, they do so in front of your eyes as the semester progresses.
Therefore, you need to set up your class with clear objectives (I use a "project" system, so we are always working towards a specific assessment, rather than, say, just doing a bunch of group discussion exercises with no context - I outline before we start the typical group discussion style at interviews, what interviewers look for, and THEN we practice with that goal in mind) and scaffold effectively so that the students have had the opportunity to understand those objectives, try to meet them, and then refine their skills in anticipation for the actual graded assessment.
After this, a great deal of your success lies in your personality and how you interact with the students. |
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DavidVance
Joined: 21 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:08 pm Post subject: Multifactor ESL English for teaching materials |
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| Check out the free Multifactor ESL English site - anything there suit your teaching? |
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thisisausername
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Some teachers have worked hard and put a lot of time and effort into their resources. Their hard work and accumulated resources can lead to higher pay and a smoother workload. The have built up a bigger and better set of tools. They have been diligent in improving their craft. Some have studied on-line or have completed the CELTA, or have gotten a degree in education.
On the other hand, there are the welfare folks. These folks want a piece of the pie, for free, that others have worked hard to develop and/or attain. Lazy. These folks are worth about 1.8 million per month, 1 sick day, and 1 vacation day when the weather is too bad for the students to come to school. |
Wow, this is an interesting point and one I hadn't really thought about. I have to say I do really hate the idea of people never contributing and just downloading everyone's lessons to get out of doing any work on their own.
I'm not really sure what I think at this point. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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There were also people selling lesson plans on the BST forum here a few years back.
I know that I would be reluctant to share actual materials with total strangers - not that I have a robust collection or anything - but having a pedagogical area dedicated to particular lesson topics would likely be useful. |
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Threequalseven
Joined: 08 May 2012
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:36 am Post subject: |
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| Think this forum is a pissing match now? Just imagine all the trolls and flamers that would spend their evenings tearing your well thought out lesson plan apart. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:55 am Post subject: |
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The problem with lesson plans is that they tend to work for certain situations
or groups, but utterly fail outside of those areas. It's good to look at lesson
a plan to use as a template for your own ideas, but ultimately you as the
teacher will have to make your own plans to suit your particular situation.
Even with students of same age/level groups, I've seen lessons go over
fabulously in one class and totally flop in the next. It comes down to student
personalities and individual interests. |
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