25 de septiembre de 2011

What's my approach indicator?

Before answering the questionnaire, I've never thought of my style of teaching; now; I've realized, that it's important to make children "think" in English, it's more natural and they don't have to spend energy on translating, so they can use that energy on comprehending and analysing the information received, but to make this happen there must be an intrinsic motivation, every class there should be a game, or song/video, or a "secret object" that catches their attention and make them be focused on the class, then; I think; if they like it they will like everything or almost everything from the class and thererefore, will like  English and we all know that it's easy to learn or do something if you like it. I'm sure that it's important to be gentle and empathetic specially when teaching a new language, but (this is my "contradiction") if you are not demanding are children going to learn what they need to? Until now I've been demanding, but not tough and it seems to work, children learn according to their potential, which is "huge" and we must take good advantage of that potential. That's why we must guide them to develop good and efficient  learning strategies, in this century students must learn how to look for information, figure out what kind of information they need and when it's appropriate to use it, learning contents it's not important any more because information is enlarged every minute; and knowing more than one language will lead them to get the information they need.

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