curriculum

I read EARLY CARRR ENGLISH TEACHERS IN ACTION chapter 4. It is hard to come up with an idea how to teach students effectively. Teachers have to think about it before a semester begins. Sometimes it works, sometimes doesn’t work. It depends on the district but sometimes schools have a curriculum that is the same as other schools in a district. The book mentioned that means all the 6^th grader studies the same thing. I guess it work for some subjects. With math or science it would work but when it comes to English, it may not work because in math or science, there is a formula and you have to be able to use it but in English there is not such a formula. There is grammar but it is not the all of English. If you read a book, you have to feel something and think about it. What I want to say is that in English, it would be better to think what book you are going to use for class and how to teach it to students. You don’t need to teach with the same material as other school’s teachers. However, it sometimes may be really difficult for a new teacher. If they are new teachers, they may not know how to teach or what to teach or what materials are the best for students.

In the last narrative, he talks about self-evaluation. I think it is important too. He said to take your lecture is one of best ways to evaluate yourself. With a tape of your class, you could notice tiny things that you may better to fix. Sometimes it is really hard to find what is a problem in a curriculum or what is better to be replaced in another way. Taking your lecture by yourself would be a great way.

student behavior

I’ve read chapter 6 “student behavior” in the book “EARLY CARRER ENGLISH TEACHERS IN ACTION”. It was written basically about students’ behavior in a classroom. There are many types of students of course in a class and teachers are usually only one in there as an adult. As wrote in this book too, you can’t expect everything what those students do or happen next but you have to deal with a problem if there is a problem.

Here comes my question. As the author says in this book, can we as a teacher see one student rather than other students? As I said teachers have to solve a problem in a classroom but in order to do that or help a student, I think, we have to use our time for the student. However, teachers have to be fair to all the students. In the book, a teacher gave a grade a student regardless the fact that other students worked hard although the student had a serious problem. I don’t know what is the right thing to do. There sometimes may parents come and complaint you about unfairness if you use your time to a specific student.

There may be a student who hates reading and, as in this book, ask you what is the point of reading a book? Can you answer to this question? The author says in the book sometimes you have to convince a student and have them study but convincing a student is sometimes difficult but at the same time there is something you could do it to the student. I agree with that so to look carefully each student is very important.

Anyway, as I said above, you can’t expect everything what is going to happen in a classroom so you can never be prepared enough. Therefore I think you have to be flexible and need to watch each student carefully.