Experiences of a teacher of English

  We may be starting a new school year, at least in the north hemisphere of our dear planet. And we have to take care of it – our planet I mean.  And in that new academic year we may find us teachers planning our lessons.  I want to tell you something about that issue, in case it may help you teachers.  Lesson planning has to be practical and brief, rather brief. Before I think of the activities I want to implement in class next day I think of my dear students, so I plan with them in mind.  Plus I wonder what they expect from me or from our English course, and what they need mostly. It takes me just few minutes, and sometimes, well, often, I write down those needs, aims, and expectations.  And then I plan the lesson properly.  I feel that in that way my students are kind of more satisfied with what we do in class. Have a nice day. Well, hang on, something else I do when lesson planning is to ask myself what few things are important now for my students ...

  What are good lessons like? Let’s try and mull something about that question, from what Gregorio Luri states plus my own experience. He is a Spanish teacher, pedagogue, and philosopher.  Some teachers say classes must be fun.  Are you sure? Well, classes shouldn’t be a bore or drag, but fun at all? A bit fun may be okay.  They have to be well taught, for the teacher has planned them nice and competently. That’s the first premise. And planned with his or her students in mind.  And that teacher has to speak well, so his or her students put in and take in good language.  I think that if the teacher acts that way, more likely his lessons will be consistent and interesting. And the classroom atmosphere must be serene, so the students can work, learn, study, and grow up well and with no stridencies. That’s also applicable if your learners are adults, like in my case. In that environment those people can work intensely.  Thus over time that kind of work is ...