ENGLISH DIDACTICS I

 Hi again! Welcome back to a new entry! Today we´re going to talk about teachers, yes! teachers and their amazing job and characteristics. We all have our perceptions about teachers. In my case, before our class, I described teachers as good public speakers,  popular and active or dynamic people in the classroom, and of course very patient and advocate professionals. 💫This is true but we can also describe teachers in a more pedagogical way, based on different criteria that might sound a little more technical than the one we used to describe students but, no worries, we´ll go through it in a moment! 😊 Teachers are described for their  role in the classroom , as an  organizer ,  performers , their  rapport  with students, as for being  teaching aids , and as  native and non-native  speakers. 1. Teacher´s role in the classroom: s ometimes one might believe that a teacher´s role is to teach a class, but it goes beyond. Teachers in a c...

 Hello hello! Welcome back! This is the last entry for period number 2. Today we´re going to talk about learners. In a classroom, we have a wide range of learners and as we´ve been talking so far, to effectively teach, we need to know, what students are good at, their potential and strengths, their learning preferences, and some other aspects that will discuss in a minute. As educators, we should consider aspects like age, learners' differences, language levels, motivation, and backgrounds. Age: age is extremely important, we know for sure that kids will love to move around, clay modeling, jump, run, and sing; while teenagers can focus more on analysis activities, grammar, and more complex games. Adults don´t necessarily enjoy moving a lot but they have a lot of life experiences they can learn from and share. Our activities have to be well-targeted according to students´ age.  Learner´s differences: there are some differences in students' learning process per se, like th...

Hello everyone! Long time no see! I hope you had a great vacation time and that you rested as much as I did! 😆😅 Today I´m going to describe a very interesting topic, that is  Learning Styles! We all have different learning styles, which means that we all learn in different ways, or better said we prefer to do it in different ways. Whenever we have to internalize something, we have our own "strategies" to make it happen. Visual Learners: they see information as pictures, diagrams videos, and demonstrations. When listening, they picture things in their minds and can easily get distracted in lectures with no visual aids. For these learners, it is good to have charts, maps, notes, and flashcards. I consider myself a visual learner, and I can tell that whenever I´m taking notes I always do any small drawing representing concepts, in that way I will remember in tests or when presenting to the class. I give meaning to my drawings. Auditory Learners: They prefer spoken info, rather...