Experiences of a teacher of English

  Most of you, my teachers, are committed ones. And you try to do your best and you work hard. You give the best from you to your students. Very well. And you get tired, eventually. You must rest and relax. When you’re tired you can view beautiful landscapes from the Internet. They will make you rest and relax. What is beautiful makes us rest and relax. In Spain next Thursday and Friday are holidays and vacations: we celebrate the Holy Week and Easter, namely the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Have a nice long weekend! / Photo from: 4250207-spring-wallpaper

  We obviously treat our students every single day. Okay then, whatever we say and do influence on them. So we should care about what we say and do. All that educates our students. Or it may hurt them. Whatever we do or whatever we don’t, influence on them too. For instance we as teachers should set an example. Thus we must try and be honorable and honest and delicate. We in some way or other take care of our students too. We must be delicately prompt to become interested in what they want to tell us. If we struggle to improve as teachers and as persons, we will positively help out our students. If we behaved bad that would also influence on them. Something more practical? Plan your lessons trying they be the best ever or at least try and do your best in the classroom. And when planning your lessons, have your students in mind, plus their needs and expectations. / Photo from: ireland tbsstudio com

  Some days ago I wrote some notes on the computer, “Good learners are the ones that are aware of their learning. Plus they are able to self-asses their work and reflect on their learning. Good learners are autonomous learners. And all this reflects on their grades and marks, in the long run and not that long. March 20, 2018.” And we as teachers want our students learn and get good grades, right? We could devote a few classes to trying our students would think of these things, plus of learning and studying and researching techniques. Therefore they will become aware of some conscious learning. Summing up: We have to teach our students how to become good students by making them realize of all those thinking processes. Besides they’ll also become more motivated to continue and carry on learning and studying. / Photo from: SPRING-in-JAPAN-1920x1200 hdwallpaperup com. A season illustration

  We teachers should take into account that we have to invest effort in making our students become autonomous learners and with their own engine to boost some nice learning. We might think we could go slower if teaching students to be autonomous, but in the long run we gain a lot. Autonomous learners are like locomotives. They can assess themselves and they’re aware of their own learning process. What to do to achieve that? If they’re mature enough – our students I mean – we can devote some few lessons to reflect upon this point and to work on learning and studying techniques. You teachers likely are experts at studying, researching and investigating, for you’ve passed through those learning processes. In few words, let’s dedicate a few classes to ponder about learning, studying, reading and researching. We also should teach our students how to select material from the Internet, because they may encounter so much information that they could become overwhelmed by...

  Definitely I’m going to give my students my blog address for them to follow me, if they like. A few of them already do it. I’m doing that because in that way my students can learn from the teacher’s angle and from his viewpoint, and that can boost and enhance their learning process quite much. Learning the teacher’s strategies can boost and enhance their learning English quite much too. They could become aware of the teaching process, thus they could become aware of their own learning process. Moreover good learners are autonomous learners. They’re aware of their own learning process and know how to asses and evaluate their learning on their own, yes they do so. I’ll write a bit more about this on coming posts. / Photo from: school of the future Clarin 365

  Some days ago I wrote the following notes for later posting, “The teacher could take notes about lucky and brilliant ideas for the classes that come to mind when teaching, when strolling around, when planning lessons… March 12, 2018.” He could have a diary or some sheets of paper to write on. While doing other things the teacher could come across brilliant ideas to implement in his classes. Also since the teacher should dedicate some daily time to personal study and self-growth as a teacher he could jot down some notes for later implementation. Lately I could tell you that some quite a nice number of my posts on this blog come from notes I write on the computer or in my diary. Some writers along history have done something similar: composing from previous notes, for example at their moleskins or diaries. Also some major literary works had a humble origin. Now I’m reading great Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Well, you may know that the origin of this masterpiece was s...

  We teachers have to plan the lessons and we may be embarked in such a labor. Okay, that’s okay. But also the teacher should consider and bear in mind what his students need along the following weeks. He should take into account and bear in mind some things his students need to improve. Or in other words, what he should carry out in view of his students’ academic necessities. As well those general ideas to take into account may refer to the students’ feelings and sentiments. For example I could think that my students have to prepare oral presentations about a topic their choice, but on the other hand I can bear in mind that what they more urgently need is to have some fun or some relax in the following classes, perhaps some nice sense of humor... All that series of goals may be something intuitive, and it’s much easier when the teacher is gaining experience. I’m finishing this post. Alike what I have to take into account may also be something my students have to ...