IMPLEMENTING INSTRUCTION

                                                        

HOW CAN TEACHERS IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION IN THEIR   CLASSROOMS AND MAKE THEM CONDUCIVE TO MEANINGFUL LEARNING?

Teachers can implement effective instruction in their classroom following different ways; we have some examples in our teaching practicum doing a lot thing that we previously thought to do when we are doing our lesson plan or that we do in the momentum of the class.

These things can be activities or strategies that we as a teacher do. Strategies are tools which help us to develop our perfect and good classes. We do activities that help students to understand the English class and help us to teach.

If our teaching is good, the probabilities that students can understand are more.

We know that students can learn practicing, so it is good when the teacher does activities, if we want to conduct meaningful learning in the students we have to investigate about strategies and activities which would help us and help students in the process learning.

WHY IS COMMUNICATION OF CONTENT AND SKILLS KNOWLEDGE A CHARACTERISTIC OF GOOD TEACHERS?

Communication of content and knowledge of good teachers is a characteristic of good teachers because communication is base not only for teachers, but also for students, I mean that a good relationship with students helps us to create a way that help to the teacher to teach.

When we have a good communication with students, we know the needs of students that help us to do a better lesson plan.

A teacher in his or her first class has problems because she or he does not know very well his or her students. After that experience a teacher does a better lesson plan because he or she knows better his or her students.

We have to know that communication is a good characteristic of teachers.

HOW ARE YOU DEALING WITH STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN YOUR OWN TEACHING PRACTICUM, AS THE AGE OF YOUR STUDENTS IS A CRITICAL ONE?

In my teaching practicum I do different activities to help students; in fact, most of them are to review a previous topic, these are activities, but it is one of my strategies to teach.

I did not know very well my students in my first class, so I had problems with my warm- ups, but I investigated to improve it.

My students are excellent students. I respect them and they respect me.

HOW THIS MANAGEMENT PARAMENTER WILL EMPOWER MY OWN TEACHING AND LEARNING STYLE?

WELL, I THINK THIS MANAGEMENT WILL EMPOWER MY TEACHING AND LEARNING STYLE BECAUSE STUDYING THIS TOPIC, I COULD LEARNED MANY IMPORTANT ASPECTS I WILL TRY TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IN MY OWN TEACHING PRACTICUM.


FIRST, I LEARNED THAT ROUTINES ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO FALLOW AN ORDER AND TO CONDUCT OUR STUDENTS IN A GOOD AND AN EFFICIENT TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS.


ALSO, I LEARNED THAT ROUTINES ARE THE BACKBONE OF DAILY CLASSROOM LIFE. THEY FACILITATE TEACHING AND LEARNING, THEY SAVE VALUABLE CLASSROOM TIME. AND WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT, EFFICIENT ROUTINES MAKE IT EASIER FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN AND ACHIEVE MORE.


I CAN SAY THAT WHEN YOUR ROUTINES AND PROCEDURES ARE CAREFULLY TAUGHT AND VERY STABLISHED IN THE CLASSROOM, STUDENTS KNOW WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THEM AND THEY WILL KNOW HOW TO DO CERTAIN THINGS ON THEIR OWN:


FOR EXAMPLE, EACH TEACHER AND EACH CLASSROOM IS DIFFERENT; CLASSROOMS ARE SUCCESSFUL WHEN TEACHERS HAVE EFFECTIVE ROUTINES FOR:
• ENTERING THE CLASSROOM
• WHERE STUDENTS SIT
• CHECKING WHICH STUDENTS ARE PRESENT IN CLASS
• LATENESS TO CLASS
• GIVING OUT EQUIPMENT AND BOOKS
• HOW STUDENTS CAN MOVE AROUND THE CLASSROOM
• WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES

ORGANIZING FOR INSTRUCTION

How do you focus on instruction?

I focus on instruction as apart of my life. I mean that if I want to be an effective teacher I have to know how to focus on instruction in different ways.

To teach is a part of my life because I feel comfortable when I prepare my lesson plans which are developed in 8^th grade. When I previously prepare my classes. I enjoy teaching; in other hand, I don’t enjoy to teach and I don’t see sense to be an English teacher.

So I like to prepare my classes  because if I don’t prepare my classes, after teaching I feel bad and I feel frustrated during the rest of the day.

Also, I focus on instruction helping my students who have problems with English.

How do you maximize instructional time?

I maximize instructional time controlling the time of different steps of the lesson.

Maybe I don’t have a lot of years teaching as my tutor, but if you observed her classes and my classes you could see that students sometimes pay more attention with me than with my tutor.

That experience is because I try to use until the last second of the hour that I have to teach.

Moreover, one day my tutor told me (please, give me ten minutes to explain something to students), then I didn’t realize my warm-up activity because I had to develop a new topic and the class was amazing, students enjoyed it.

From the better beginning I established some rules for my English class to take advantage of the time. Some of them are the followings:

¨      When the teacher is explaining the class students don’t have to copy the information of the board.

¨      Students have 2 minutes to organize the desks in a semicircle before my English class.

¨      The teacher will check the homework during the free times.

¨      Etc.

How do you expect students to succeed in your classes?

 

Well, I expect students to succeed in my classes, talking to them, explaining during the free times something that students didn’t understand in the last class.

I have created a good relationship with students and they like to talk to me.

I told them that I am not only an English teacher, but also a friend. You know I told them a lot of things with the purpose that they felt  and feel comfortable in my classes.

 I could see that these students learn and most of the time enjoy the class, but I know that not all of the students like English, but they are interested to learn a little English.

 How do you plan and prepare for instruction?

I plan and prepare for instruction in the following way:

First, asking my tutor what is the topic if the topic of the next class, after that I organize the time to develop my lesson plan.

I create the general objective that I want to accomplish to the end of the class, and I prepare my warm-up and investigate about the topic, etc.

When my lesson plan is completed I check and check it.

 Then, I created the materials which will be used in my English class.

The activities that I always do are group activities because students like.

When I teach, I am confident because I am satisfied of my previous preparation.

In my first day of teaching, I didn’t know students, but nowadays I have ideas to accomplish a good class. And of course I teach the things that I know perfectly.

I haven’t made changes in the last minutes of my class because they haven’t been necessary.

I need to manage the time for improving my instruction and rapport  with more students.