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A Two-Week Intensive Teacher Training Course For European Teachers, Olga Shepel
A Two-Week Intensive Teacher Training Course For European Teachers, Olga Shepel
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This paper is a teacher-training course designed for the Eastern European context. The aim of this course is to introduce trainees to different ways of teaching the language, to give them a chance to analyze their actions and to share their knowledge with their colleagues during the course. It covers most of the teaching aspects, such as presenting new materials, classroom management, problem solving and many others. This paper can be used as a manual for teacher trainers.
The Evolution Of A Reflective Practitioner: One Teacher’S Story, Anne K. Reagan
The Evolution Of A Reflective Practitioner: One Teacher’S Story, Anne K. Reagan
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Becoming a reflective practitioner requires and active, disciplined process as well as support from colleagues according to the experiences of one elementary school Spanish teacher. This paper provides an overview of the learning experiences in a MAT graduate program that shaped this teacher’s initial thoughts about reflective teaching. It also reviews several experts’ ideas on reflective thought and teaching. Finally, it narrates and analyzes her experience of creating a reflective teachers’ group using a text as the impetus for discussion. The conclusion offers ideas for future development of a reflective teachers’ group.
Motivating Adolescents To Be Active Participants In The Language Learning Process, Kier Merill
Motivating Adolescents To Be Active Participants In The Language Learning Process, Kier Merill
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Motivating adolescents to be active participants in their own language learning process is a challenge faced by all middle and high school language teachers. This paper provides and overview of tone teacher’s experiences in the struggle to motivate her own students. it also supplies some useful ideas on activities that work to motivate students both inside and outside the classroom. The appendices include step by step plans to help guide other teachers in carrying out some of the activities in their own classes.
Building A Teacher Education Program For Efl Teachers: From Process To Product, Eliana Santana
Building A Teacher Education Program For Efl Teachers: From Process To Product, Eliana Santana
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This IPP contains a teacher education program for a school in the north of Brazil. It also shows the process I used in order to construct it. It shows the context for which the program was developed, the state-of-the-art in TESOL teacher preparation, as well as my own beliefs and assumptions about how learning teaching takes place. Then, it presents the needs analysis as well as the curriculum designed for the program.
Feedback-Who Needs It Anyway? A Project On Humanizing Large-Scale Supervision, Tsylla Maria Balbino De Carvalho Ferreira
Feedback-Who Needs It Anyway? A Project On Humanizing Large-Scale Supervision, Tsylla Maria Balbino De Carvalho Ferreira
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This paper describes the project of humanizing large-scale supervision at the Casa Thomas Jefferson, a binational center in Brasilia-Brazil.
It presents the supervision model used in the past and its current, humanized version. It takes the opportunity to compare them and introduce the author’s beliefs and how these ideas have been developed throughout the years, aiming at an ideal supervision model that is centered on teachers’ needs for growing
Language Learning Strategies: A Primer, Carol Lindenbrock Fujii
Language Learning Strategies: A Primer, Carol Lindenbrock Fujii
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The question of why some learners acquire a second language more quickly than others has long been a problem for language teachers. Even when students seem basically equal in terms of opportunity and intelligence, progress can vary greatly. Variations in the language learning strategies students employ could explain why some students do better than others. Students can profitably explore the areas of language learning strategies to become more aware and successful learners. This paper begins by defining language learning strategies as the tools learners use to plan, monitor, and evaluate their own learning and to make that learning more efficient. …