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Building A Teacher Education Program For Efl Teachers: From Process To Product, Eliana Santana

MA TESOL Collection

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.

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

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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.

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