Effective Teaching: What Does It All Mean?

Why should we as effective ELT practitioners have high expectation for all our students?

I think that we as effective teachers have to have the greatest expectations for our students because we have to understand that all our students are able to get everything they want, and they can be able to reach all their goals. Effective teachers succeed when their students succeed, so if we want to be effective teachers, we need to transfer knowledge and provide the necessary opportunities so that students can take advantage of that and reach their goals.

How come we need to communicate them to our students?

It is pretty important that we as teachers let our students know our expectations because they need to be aware what we expect from them and where they are going in the whole learning process. We have to show our students that we really care about them and about their learning.  

How do we do that?

Well, we can easily communicate our students our expectations and our care about them by showing them that we are giving the best of us for they to acquire the best knowledge so that our students get the awareness they need to continue increasing their own learning. Another way to communicate our expectations is caring about students' needs because they are going to know that we care about their learning because we want them to succeed in their everyday lives.

How do we support them to achieve their learning expectations?

The key for supporting students to achieve their learning expectations is effective communication which requires that teachers must be adept at facilitating students´ own search for knowledge. Effective teachers, in fact, do care about students and ensures that students recognize this caring and feel supported and encouraged. We, as effective teachers, need to care not only about our students but also the classroom and positive learning environment.

DAPA

DESCRIBE

10:10 I started the class by greeting my students.
10:12 I established and told my students the purpose of the first activity and gave instructions, I developed my warm-up activity.
10:22 I started explaining the topic that was present continues.
10:24 I asked students to work in groups of five.
10:26 I gave my students some pictures that reflected activities in people’s everyday lives. Students had to create sentences based on the pictures using the present continues.
10:28 Students seemed to be on task.
10:36 I asked for volunteers to check the sentences.
10:40 Students read the sentences and corrected all mistakes.
10:45 I brought the class to an end.

ANALIZE

ATWIKA giving instructions, I need to KISS my students. Even though my instructions were short and simple, I forgot to CCQ my students in my second activity, and ATWIKA CCQing is an important part in the activity. ATWIKA CM, when you start the class, you must be self-confident and your attitude toward the activities would help to be successful.  

PLAN OF ACTION

In the near future, if I have to teach this topic once again, I am going to continue using writing activities because in this way, students develop their writing skills; besides, after writing the sentences, students are able to read them without fear of being wrong since they know it is time to check them. Also, I am going to continue stating the purpose of the activities because I as teacher need to send the signal to my students of what they are going to get; in addition, I am going to bring more colored materials because students will be able to manipulate them.

Questions I am still thinking about or Questions to reflect upon…

How can I VAKT my activities in the classroom?
How could I minimize TTT and maximize STT?
How could I time my activities properly?
How could I involve all my students in each activity?

 

Suggestions

Don’t forget to KISS and CCQ.
Apply the right level of difficulty

How benefit was the book to have a better idea on what teaching is all about?

 Well, when I began to read this book, I feel that there was an ideal work of teaching where the classes were wonderful and fascinating, but when I was in the real life I could see that it was not true. While I continue reading the book I discover that such a world doesn’t exist, but it is our responsibility to build it in each class. So that I consider that this book benefit me in the way that now I know that what I have to do for improving my teaching is what makes me different from other teachers. I learned some roles of the teacher for example role of caring, role of fairness and respect.  I learned many things that I didn't know about classroom management and organization. I learned how to provide feedback. Finally I have to say that this book helped me to improve my practicum at school and I know that this book will be really useful now that I'm a pre-service teacher but also when I'll begin my career.