PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING

IDEAL TEACHER

In our hands as educators is the future of the world because the young people are it.We must help them to be responsible, to respect their peers and acquire a sense of protection to their surroundings, we as teachers must create in their minds the conception of the real education and how it can modify the world.The best teacher must possess the ability to identify every student needs and how the teacher can work on that aspects, taking into account that every student is different and they learn in a different way. The best teacher needs to be tolerant and be an active observer teacher, who can adapt to change and cultural diversity in a smart way the best, has to be close to the students, to keep a relationship with them respecting the discipline and authority, where students see it as a guide, an aid to be what they need.According to economics, social and technology demands in the world the students have to develop a communicative competence in order to establish a better relation with different communities and to get better economic opportunities.  
For those reasons is necessary to improve student’s skills in English for the future challenges in their life and as I told before because they are the future of the countries and if teachers work in their abilities they could offers us a new and better society.We must carry out a teaching method that breaks at once with the traditional way in which the teacher talks and the students do not participate. For a good learning, students have to be active in the classes, so the teacher has to use different resources and techniques in order to teach something but in an interesting way for students, trying to catch their attention and trying to have students motivated in the class it means that students feel their enjoy the class and they don´t notice the topics at the beginning of the classes.The teacher has to use students interesting like music, TV programs some web sites, etc… sometimes getting out of the text. The teacher  chooses the appropriate topics and  will ensure that they are clear because he wants students to achieve critical, responsible and independent, protect the diversity of knowledge and that learning should be based on what students know, the environment to which they have been exposed to build the new knowledge, then teacher must support students to complete this process.The purpose of schools is to help learners to expand what they already know and build what they can do, support them in identifying needs and interests and experiences in solving old and new. In the learning process is very important to develop skills so that students will be the center of everything, and the contents, methods and forms of assessment will aim to structure knowledge to acquire, learn cognitive abilities, skills and attitudes, using a variety of resources to meet the sensory needs of students with visual, auditory and kinesthetic, which takes diversity and to transmit moral values ​​to enable coexistence in society. A basic principle of whole language indicates that children learn when they are in control of their learning and know they are. When children are engaged in real reading and real writing, they can read and write their own objectives and receive power.The language, including writing more easily learned in a context of use. When language is complete, relevant and functional, students have real purposes for using language and through its use develop control over the processes of language itself. In whole language, each learner builds its own culture, its values ​​and interests. Each builds its own strengths. For Piaget (1977) as well as for Vygotsky, learners are strong, independent and active, able to learn in a relatively easy way that is relevant and functional for them.John Dewey (1902) provided a significant insight into the relationship between learning and formal school. We showed that we learn by doing. Strong motivation inevitably helps further acquisition. There are several types of motivation, one of them I consider is important for the teacher to have a friendly and open relationship with their students, to create a sense of trust and security. Another is Self confidence. The apprentice who has a higher self-esteem and self-confidence tends to acquire more and better the second language. Great importance is placed on students’ feelings, in making them feel confident and relaxed, in desuggesting their psychological barriers.Other of the principles: not force students to speak before they are ready, and tolerate errors in the first production efforts and sharing about their learning experience allows learners to get to know one another and to build community. The theory implies that improved our grammatical accuracy to more data, not because someone corrects us.One of the characteristics that I think has advantage is when students are participating in a group situation, interaction, group cooperation, peer interaction and peer correction. According to Brown (1994), group work creates a favorable climate for communication by relieving students of the anxiety of having to talk in front of the whole class. At first not familiar to their peers, but in the course of studies will know by using the second language, while they develop a sense of belonging.Lozano suggests that language acquisition is a natural process, paid by the fertile soil of the communication, and stimulated by art, if the teacher provides as relaxed and comfortable an environment as possible, the classroom is provided with dim lights, soft music, cushioned armchairs, games and walls decorated with scenes from a country where the target language is spoken because culture includes everyday life and fine arts. Teacher and students are whole persons.Content-Based suggests that the target language should be taught all in one, not in pieces. It proposes coordination of the skills. The language skills should be gained through awhole text. The text the teacher chooses should contain the language skills so that the students can develop their language skills as a whole. This approach supports one another approach. This approach is based on the learners experiences Learners can be highly motivated to learning the target language by this way. They will enjoy using the target language to tell their experiences. Terrell suggests that all the time in the classroom is used for communication activities (acquisition) and read explanations and exercise is outside the classroom, in the laborat home (learning).
       We know that students are expected to make errors when they first begin speaking. We as teachers should be tolerant of them. Work on the fine details of the language should bepostponed until students have become somewhat proficient, in that way the student should have the opportunity to speak creatively without fear of being embarrassed in front of their peers corrected.

REFERENCES




Brown, H. Douglas.  Principles of language learning and teaching. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall de Regentes. 1994
Dell Hymes, “On Communicative Competence,” in Sociolinguistics, edited by J.B. Pride and J. Homes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973). Also see Michael A. K. Halliday, Explorations in the Functions of Language (London: Edward Arnold, 1973).
Larsen-Freeman, D. (2000). Techniques and principles in language teaching
Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1965).
Richards, J.C. & Rogers, T.S. (2001). Approaches and methods in language teaching.



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