My Teaching Approach
My teaching approach
I have taught more than 200 lessons in my teaching career at school so far. This amount of lessons showed me many reasons for using suitable teaching methods for a particular class. What is a teaching method? In general, the teaching method refers to pedagogy strategies which are used in giving class instructions. The methods primarily fall into two approaches: teacher-centered and student-centered. Personally, I like more the students-centered approach when teachers and students play equally active role in the learning process.
Unfortunately, I observed many lessons when I could not identify almost any methods covered in our seminar. On the other hand, that time I was not familiar enough with the features of the methods. Anyway, the lessons seemed very similar. The teacher did not give the instructions in English. Sometimes he or she did but it depended on the level of English of the class. The students´level of English limits teachers for using teaching methods. For this reason teachers should find a suitable teaching method even for the lower students´level of English. One could be the Grammar translation method, which is quite widespread. The method is focused on written literary texts (typical working with grammar books etc.) and characterized by translation from English into our native language. It is very easy to follow for students and it does not require excellent communication skills while some other methods do. In classes I taught, the level of English was not corresponding with the age of the pupils (of course we could find some pupils with good English too). Because of this fact I could not speak English all the time so from this point of view it would be very difficult to use The Direct method, Communicative language teaching method or Task based learning. These methods are focused on everyday spoken English, authentic communication and on what is being communicated, not structure in English. Simply, the methods require higher
I have taught more than 200 lessons in my teaching career at school so far. This amount of lessons showed me many reasons for using suitable teaching methods for a particular class. What is a teaching method? In general, the teaching method refers to pedagogy strategies which are used in giving class instructions. The methods primarily fall into two approaches: teacher-centered and student-centered. Personally, I like more the students-centered approach when teachers and students play equally active role in the learning process.
Unfortunately, I observed many lessons when I could not identify almost any methods covered in our seminar. On the other hand, that time I was not familiar enough with the features of the methods. Anyway, the lessons seemed very similar. The teacher did not give the instructions in English. Sometimes he or she did but it depended on the level of English of the class. The students´level of English limits teachers for using teaching methods. For this reason teachers should find a suitable teaching method even for the lower students´level of English. One could be the Grammar translation method, which is quite widespread. The method is focused on written literary texts (typical working with grammar books etc.) and characterized by translation from English into our native language. It is very easy to follow for students and it does not require excellent communication skills while some other methods do. In classes I taught, the level of English was not corresponding with the age of the pupils (of course we could find some pupils with good English too). Because of this fact I could not speak English all the time so from this point of view it would be very difficult to use The Direct method, Communicative language teaching method or Task based learning. These methods are focused on everyday spoken English, authentic communication and on what is being communicated, not structure in English. Simply, the methods require higher