3646. What Is a Good Lesson Like? Some Approximation

 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 something you will like, probably, as a student I mean. 

But the school is not an amusement park, as G. Luri says wisely. 

On the other hand I’ve recently repeated that reading books and graded readers is great and efficient to learn a second or foreign language. Of course you ought to practice all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, but by reading books and articles you can surely learn a lot of English (for example). 

Now, Stephen Krashen says that fiction books have the kind of language and vocabulary that most students need academically. 

And it seems better the reader person would choose his book. Anyway, that person had better select his read carefully, and most or many books are educative, as a matter of fact. 

If you teacher plan to set a book for your students, let me tell you, it should be in accordance to their parents, for they are the first educators. Have a nice day and some nice school back.