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As a teacher, I have been evolving for the past years and I see myself now as a versatile and eclectic teacher. My approach is focused on interaction and process, providing students with the right material and more importantly sequencing evertyhing in the most convenient manner to make them learn properly. Moreover, I try to complementthe teaching of grammar with more interactive activities with the help of ICT'S such as internet, electronic games and music. All in all, I believe in an approach that cares and caters for each student in the class whitout overlooking the content and the quality of the teaching. For this reason, I try to reflect on my methodology almost after every session so I can improve and give the best to my students. I am convinced that successful teaching starts by getting students excited about learning. To do this, I show students how excited I am about learning. I recall that as a student my interest was always sparked when professors were passionate abo...

Strategic investment is one of the teaching principles advocated in view to language teaching in general and second language acquisition in particular. It entails that the learner can invest time, effort and attention while being engaged into the learning process. Therefore, the learner is not passive; rather is an active participant because of many stratefies he/she can make use of. By this implication, the teacher in turn has to work out these strategies in order to make them fruitful investment. Our students can reference multiple sources of evidence they use to self-assess their learning progress and plan their next steps. For example, by collecting artifacts to document their learning (make a portfolio for the end of the term), help them set learning goals and continually update them. Anxiety? Stress? Don't panic, teacher. According to Lyuborimisky (2008:216-231) there are some activities that can help us teachers to live the present of past and future positive emotions...

Asking questions in the classroom is a common resource for every teacher, but what whe should alway keep in mind is that not all questions are appropiate and have the same effectivity on our students. There are basically two types of questions that we can ask: Referential and Display . When a teacher asks a referential question it is a question to which he does not know the answer (“Do you like fish?” “What time did you get up this morning?”) On the other hand, a Display  question is one to which the teacher knows the answer, and the pupils know that he knows the answer (“What is this?” – holding up an exercise book). While display questions have their uses, it seems that teachers seem to use many more of them than they use of referential questions. So the trainees should be encouraged not to drop Display questions but to increase the proportion of referential questions. Another useful way of classifying questions is to classify them as open or closed questio...

T h ere are differences between differentiation and scaffolding.  Differentiation  refers to the idea of modifying instruction to meet a student’s individual needs and learning styles.  Scaffolding  refers to modifications you make while designing and teaching lessons that allow all students to be successful in learning the same content. Differentiation is often directed at individual students while scaffolding is done for the entire class. For example, when an individual  student can’t answer a Checking for Understanding question and you rephrase your question from open-ended to multiple choice, you have differentiated for that one student. When you pre-read a Learning Objective before having the entire class read chorally, you are scaffolding. In reality, differentiation and scaffolding strategies overlap, but they have the same ultimate goal: increasing student success .

Welcome to my didactic blog. This space is created with the special purpose of contributing to the teaching community in my own manner. Nowadays teaching has become a very important profession which holds a lot of responsability. Therefore, I hope to be clear about my methodology and ideas which I will not hesitate to explain thoroughly.