EXPECTING AND GETTING THE BEST FROM OUR STUDENTS

WHY SHOULD WE AS EFFECTIVE ELT PRACTITIONERS HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR ALL OUR STUDENTS?

We should have high expectations for all our students because we have or do a function as profesional people. We need to have high expactations about our students because we have the obligation and responsability to empower the students' knowledge.

I know that i am not a profesional teacher yet, but I work as practitioner as a profesional teacher.So, I have the responsability to take care about my students who have to work hard and who have to become good students and to have sucscessful in their lives. We have to have good expactatios for our students to whom we need to motivate.

students appear to be propelled by curiosity, driven by an intense need to explore, interact with, and make sense of their environment.

Unfortunately, as students grow, their passion for learning frequently seems to shrink. Learning often becomes associated with drudgery instead of delight. A large number of students--more than one in four--leave school before graduating. Many more are physically present in the classroom but largely mentally absent; they fail to invest themselves fully in the experience of learning.

Awareness of how students' attitudes and beliefs about learning develop and what facilitates learning for its own sake can assist educators in reducing student apathy.

Also, student motivation naturally has to do with students' desire to participate in the learning process. But it also concerns the reasons or goals that underlie their involvement or noninvolvement in academic activities. Although students may be equally motivated to perform a task, the sources of their motivation may differ.

HOW COME WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE THEM TO OUR STUDENTS?

We need to communicate them to our students because they need to feel comfortable with us, and communication is a tool that help us to rupport with them.

I rememner that when I studied that I did not feel comfortable in junior school because I did not have good classmates and I did not have friends, so, one day I talk to my mathematics teacher who is a good person. She always talked to me every day about the classes and about my problems to study. I mean that I feel confident and comfortable in his classes because I did not have friends, but I knew that I had a good teacher who help me to feel comfortable in the class.

HOW DO WE DO THAT?

A rule that I practice is to be friendly with students, but not to be a friend.

We can communicate with them talking about the classes and about their needs which they have to take a counnt to improve thei grades.

We as effective practitioners have to be careful with students because it's possible that they like us not only as teachers, but also as girlfriends our boyfriends.

In fact, if we have a strong communication with them, they can feel better in our class, but we have to be careful because there are students who likes to be noisy when we create a realation that is similar a friendship.

HOW DO WE SUPPORT THEM TO ACHIEVE THEIR LEARNING EXPECTATIONS?

We can help them to achieve their learnig expactations doing quizes or evaluating them and different forms and times because if a student has problems with something he or she has the

probability to improve.

HOW DO WE DEMONSTRATE THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR STUDENTS' LEARNING?
We can demostrate that we are responsable with our students monitoring student progress and helping them to develop their potential.
There are things that students learn of us; for example: 

• We demostrate interested for our students learnig being on time in the classroom.
• Checking their homework assessments.
• Helping them with their problems in some skill.
• Showing energy when we teach.

Etc.

A DAPA OF ONE YOUR LESSONS.

Lesson plan : simple present

Time: 45 minutes. From 7:25 a.m to 8:10 a.m

1.     I  greeted my students, then I told them that I felt confortable. Some of the students told me that they were tired, then I told them that I undertood them.

2.     I told them that we were going to study anew topic about the simple present.

3.     I told them that we were going to do a warm-up activity before starting the class.

4.     I tolgd tudents the purpose of the activity.

5.     I explained students the name of the activity, then what they had to do.

6.     I told them the steps of the warm-up. The stesps were:

·        Choose a number of students to form two lines.

·        Students have to throw the die, then, they have to take a piece of paper that is in one of the boxes, but it depends on the color side of the die they got.

·        Give students 2 minute to answer the question the paper has.

·        The rest of the students have to answer questions which will be asked by the teacher.

7.      Ater the warm-up activity, I started the class askin tudents some verbs that they knew.

8.      I wrote the name of the topic on the whiteboard.

9.      I explained the personal pronous.

10.  I wrote the rules of the simple present on the board giving some examples about them.

11.  I explained one more time the rules to stundent, then I told them that the have to do sentences using the rules and explanations studying in the class.

12.  I gave them some pieces of paper which contained the exercises to complete.

13. I checked them their work.

14. I explained them the negative form of the simple present tense.

15. I wrote the auxiliary do + no, then I explained it to students.

16. I geve students other pieces of paper which other exercises.

17. I cheked the exercises with students.

18. I told students that we were going to do a warp-up.

19.  I chose students who had to write sentences using one of the verbs that they remember

20. I told students that the class was over, then I old them that they had to write 10 sentences using verbs that were not mention in the class.

Critic.

·        The explanations were simple, ut according to the topic.

·        I had to be with more energy in the class.

·        I was not sure about what to do with my warm-up.

In the near future I will use this lesson plan and  I am going to do some changesñ

For example:

1.      I will so another warm-up activity that pertmits me to involve all the students.

2.      I will use pages with the rules of the simple present to save time.

3.      I try to be more energize to show interested for may teaching.

 

Questions to reflect upon.

1. how can I  do another warm-up activity in my class?
2. how can I use materials to teach this topic?
3. how can I save time?

HOW BENEFICIAL WAS THIS BOOK TO HAVE A BETTER IDEA ON WHAT TEACHING IS ALL ABOUT?

This book helped me to improve my cay to teach because it was a tool that i have been using to learned and to teach.
Now, I have a better idea about what is teaching and I know that teaching is not only know about something, but also know how to teach.