I want to start this diary with my personal experiences of my school teachers. When I was small, about 6 years old, my parents sent me to a kindergarten. I remember how hard it was for me to bear those boring days. I hated kindergarten. And I think it was because of the context of that place. My teacher was a thin woman, always angry and impatient, and my classmates were always nagging. We had some few storybooks there and each session our teacher chose one of them for reading. And this method went on and on. In my view it was a silly job. All children were supposed to learn some songs and sing them for our friends. Playing games and etc. I know that these games and activities were very interesting and needed for most of the children in that level. But I myself hated such things. I passed that year very hard and it was one of the worst experiences that I've ever had. I entered school. The teachers followed some routines. They taught new lessons to us and we were supposed to memorize the lessons. Years passed and I entered high school. There, for each lesson we had different teachers (what all schools do). After four or five months (I can hardly remember the time) I found out that I love one of my teachers:
Mrs. mehrabi. Her course was chemistry. I liked other courses such as math and physics, but I really loved chemistry.
She was my best teacher. Her method of teaching was very different. First of all there was no difference between a smart and lazy student in her class. Even if there were only one student who had not understood her lesson, she tried again and each time she chose a new way of teaching the same lesson. I remember the time when she wanted to teach us about the position of molecules' movement in solid, liquid and gas. She chose some of the students, brought them to the floor and told us that assume your friends are molecules and taught us that lesson in that funny way. I always praise her. She was a real TEACHER. Her lesson planning was perfect. All students were involved. Although the facilities in our class and the laboratory were not so good, she used them in the best way she could. Before starting to teach, she pre- taught some new concepts for us. Her classes were always full of question and answer. All the students were interested and curious.
Today when after about 1 month, I wanted to write this diary, unwanted I remembered my teacher, when I was studying my notes and books about the lesson plan and etc. according to the syllabus, the title of this session is "teacher, learner and designing and implementing classroom lessons'. But what is the relationship between the teacher's decisions and the learners? The answer is that the teacher organizes her lesson plan according to learners and their variables. The class plan depends on these factors and variables. But what are these factors that are vital for each teacher in order to have a perfect class?
1- Age 2- style 3- level 4-personality 5- cognitive styles 6- strategy 7-affective variables
There are some other variables that are influential also. These are contextual variables which are classified in to:
1- Physical: a) setting b) scene
2- Socio-political
How to teach? The best model of teaching is the interactional model in which both the teacher and learners are involved, rather than transactional; and we should be aware of the variety of our class activities and also the pace at which the class is going on. By using an interactional model we help our students to achieve:
1- Automaticity: helping students to focus on meaning instead of form.
2- Intrinsic motivation: we should do whatever we can to create the need for our learners to want to learn, not to study because they have to. One way of doing so, is to remove the pressure of examination.
3- Strategic investment: if we are designing a lesson plan for any classroom, we should use strategic language competence.
4- Risk taking: by using puzzles, and other kinds of games we can help learners freely take risks and guess without being afraid of punishment.
5- Cultural connection: without this aspect, our language teaching is naked, and good for nothing.
6- Interlanguage: we should welcome the systematic development of students' language and we should not emphasize accuracy right from the beginning.
7- Communicative competence: it includes linguistic, socio-linguistic, discourse, and strategies; and we should organize our activities in a way that cover all these competences.
But what is the role of the teacher during the class time? Well, according to brown, we have a continuum role (as you see, I suppose that I am a teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). our role is a continuum from totally directive to totally nondirective.
Well, here we have a teacher, the learners, and the class. Is it all we should mention? Does everything end at the end of each session? NO, not at all. Now it's the time for evaluation. Yes, now the teacher has to evaluate whether her interactional mode was good or…! In order to do this, we need to know our learners and analyze their needs (need analysis). According to Nunan the teacher should consider some factors for need analysis: lack, need, and want. Then we have some other variables to be considered in a need analysis: as It was mentioned above, it includes age, proficiency level, cognitive styles, strategies and affective factors.
1- Age: there is a difference between teaching children, teens, and adults. There are 5 factors influencing it.
A) Intellectual development
B) Attention span
C) Sensory input
D) Affective factors
E) Authentic, meaningful language
2- Proficiency levels:
A) Beginning level
B) Intermediate level
C) Advanced level
Mrs. mehrabi. Her course was chemistry. I liked other courses such as math and physics, but I really loved chemistry.
She was my best teacher. Her method of teaching was very different. First of all there was no difference between a smart and lazy student in her class. Even if there were only one student who had not understood her lesson, she tried again and each time she chose a new way of teaching the same lesson. I remember the time when she wanted to teach us about the position of molecules' movement in solid, liquid and gas. She chose some of the students, brought them to the floor and told us that assume your friends are molecules and taught us that lesson in that funny way. I always praise her. She was a real TEACHER. Her lesson planning was perfect. All students were involved. Although the facilities in our class and the laboratory were not so good, she used them in the best way she could. Before starting to teach, she pre- taught some new concepts for us. Her classes were always full of question and answer. All the students were interested and curious.
Today when after about 1 month, I wanted to write this diary, unwanted I remembered my teacher, when I was studying my notes and books about the lesson plan and etc. according to the syllabus, the title of this session is "teacher, learner and designing and implementing classroom lessons'. But what is the relationship between the teacher's decisions and the learners? The answer is that the teacher organizes her lesson plan according to learners and their variables. The class plan depends on these factors and variables. But what are these factors that are vital for each teacher in order to have a perfect class?
1- Age 2- style 3- level 4-personality 5- cognitive styles 6- strategy 7-affective variables
There are some other variables that are influential also. These are contextual variables which are classified in to:
1- Physical: a) setting b) scene
2- Socio-political
How to teach? The best model of teaching is the interactional model in which both the teacher and learners are involved, rather than transactional; and we should be aware of the variety of our class activities and also the pace at which the class is going on. By using an interactional model we help our students to achieve:
1- Automaticity: helping students to focus on meaning instead of form.
2- Intrinsic motivation: we should do whatever we can to create the need for our learners to want to learn, not to study because they have to. One way of doing so, is to remove the pressure of examination.
3- Strategic investment: if we are designing a lesson plan for any classroom, we should use strategic language competence.
4- Risk taking: by using puzzles, and other kinds of games we can help learners freely take risks and guess without being afraid of punishment.
5- Cultural connection: without this aspect, our language teaching is naked, and good for nothing.
6- Interlanguage: we should welcome the systematic development of students' language and we should not emphasize accuracy right from the beginning.
7- Communicative competence: it includes linguistic, socio-linguistic, discourse, and strategies; and we should organize our activities in a way that cover all these competences.
But what is the role of the teacher during the class time? Well, according to brown, we have a continuum role (as you see, I suppose that I am a teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). our role is a continuum from totally directive to totally nondirective.
Well, here we have a teacher, the learners, and the class. Is it all we should mention? Does everything end at the end of each session? NO, not at all. Now it's the time for evaluation. Yes, now the teacher has to evaluate whether her interactional mode was good or…! In order to do this, we need to know our learners and analyze their needs (need analysis). According to Nunan the teacher should consider some factors for need analysis: lack, need, and want. Then we have some other variables to be considered in a need analysis: as It was mentioned above, it includes age, proficiency level, cognitive styles, strategies and affective factors.
1- Age: there is a difference between teaching children, teens, and adults. There are 5 factors influencing it.
A) Intellectual development
B) Attention span
C) Sensory input
D) Affective factors
E) Authentic, meaningful language
2- Proficiency levels:
A) Beginning level
B) Intermediate level
C) Advanced level
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