Saturday, 25 October 2008

Saturday, 11 October 2008

STAGES IN TEACHING

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4. You tend to be more concerned about your class plan than about how it will turn into actual on ground class managemet.
5. While teaching, you are often more concerned about your teaching than about student´s leraning.
6. You find yourself thinking: This might work pretty well in his/her classroom, but my students are different even if they are in the same level, so it won´t work with my sudets.
7. You admire certain teachers and you feel you will never get to be that good.
8. You are often surprised by the emergent. There is always something you haven´t considered when planning or there´s always a student who ask the unexpected question.
9. You have been able to focus on individual students and individual problem situations and seek a solution.. You find yourself thinking “How can i help a particular student who”?
10. Your classs ussally runs smoothly most of the times.
11. You enjoy teaching most of the times.
12. You have a few management “tricks” that usually work very effectively and you rely on them.
13. You are more concerned with specific aspects of your planning in order to approach a particular.
14. You are more concerned with specific aspects of your management such as “What other errror corrections could I use”.
15. You are rarely surprised by emergent. You pretty much know what to expect from students and they seldom ask an unexpected question.
16. You have found yourself seeking help from teachers who have had similar experiences and you´ve been willing to try out some of those suggestions.
17. You are getting tired of doing the same things over and over.
18. You ask yourself more questions about new developements in the field.
19. You occasionally think you should have chosen a different profession.
20. You sometimes wonder: is this what I´m going to do the rest of my life? I don´t know if I want to.
21. You feel you have been repeating yourself and you find a need for renewal and refreshment.
22. You believe there is basically “nothing new under the sun”.
23. You have thought of leavingg the profession.
24. You have come to terms with the profession.
25. You have reached a comfortable level of confidence in your own competence.
26. You ask yourself deeper and more abstract questions about learning, teaching, education or school management.
27. You keep expanding your repertoire of teaching techniques.
28. You have found yourself giving guiadance, support and suggestions to younger colleagues.
29. You feel you are pofessional who can keep developing and growing.
30. You are pretty confident to face most substitutions on the spur of the moment.

Thursday, 9 October 2008

RV: Download a story and inspire your students

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Tuesday, 7 October 2008

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