Chapter I Introduction Today’s competent professionals are the ones who possess the following qualities: critical thinking‚ initiative and communication skills. The said skills answer the question how can a graduate land a job suited to the education he or she received as shown by People’s Managers Association of the Philippines’ podcast‚ “Book Smart is not Enough‚” on You Tube (2011). Critical thinking is weighing all possible solutions to a problem and choosing the best one that would solve the
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Introduction: The Nature of Teaching The nature of teaching has been conceptualized and explained n countless ways‚ one conceptualized is that teaching is the act of providing activities that facilitate learning‚ another view runs likes this”Teaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what the teacher is doing in her classes‚ if the student are not learning something significant‚ she is not teaching‚ when the student fails‚ the teacher fails more. Quite similar to
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grammar and vocabulary might be” (Celce-Murcia‚ 1987:5). In the field of language teaching‚ the role of pronunciation has varied widely from having virtually no role in the grammar-translation method to being the central focus in the audio-lingual method where emphasis is on the traditional notions of pronunciation‚ minimal pairs‚ drills and short conversations. The growing emphasis on communicative approaches for the teaching of English has placed higher demands for correct pronunciation. Despite this
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What is ESP and how does it differ from teaching general English course What is ESP? ESP is English for Specific Purpose and can also be referred to as Business English. A great deal about the origins of ESP could be written. Notably‚ there are three reasons common to the emergence of all ESP: the demands of a Brave New World‚ a revolution in linguistics‚ and focus on the learner (Hutchinson & Waters‚ 1987). ESP arose as a term in the 1960’s as it became increasingly aware that general English
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Teaching speaking to ethnic minority students of English at Hoa Binh Teachers’ Training College: Problems and solutions Author: Ngo Thi Thuy Huong Deputy Dean of Foreign Language Study Department Hoa Binh Teachers’ Training College Telephone number: 0218.3600.438 Email: nghuonghb@gmail.com Nguyen Thi Le Thuy Lecturer at Hanoi University of Industry Bio Data: Ngo Thi Thuy Huong has a BA in English. She has been a teacher of English at Hoa Binh Teachers’ Training College (HTTC)
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My reflection is on a teaching session of nasogastric feeding to a second year student. One of the patient I looked after was fed via a nasogastric tube. My student had told me she had never set up a feed via a nasogastric tube. I saw this as a learning opportunity for her. In order for me to teach my student effectively‚ it was important to establish her preferred learning style. Honey & Mumford (1992) identify four distinct learning styles e:g 1. Activist‚ are those people that learn by doing
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theories (I) have about the teaching of science” 2. “consider … the possible learning outcomes of an ‘enquiry’ approach to teaching science compared to ‘direct’ teaching” 3. include reference to underlying theory 4. refer to specific teaching situations 5. engage in critical reflective thinking My theory In order to challenge my theory of teaching I first need very briefly to define it. When I was taught science it was mostly through direct teaching. Any experiments performed
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APPROACH BY: Tavane Brooks-Barrett WHAT IS THE ECLECTC APPROACH? The eclectic approach is the label given to a teacher’s use of techniques and activities from a range of teaching approaches and methodologies. HISTORY OF THE ECLECTIC APPROACH The eclectic approach was proposed as a reaction to the profusion of teaching methods in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Eclecticism was first recorded to have been practiced by a group of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers who attached themselves to no
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Theories of teaching and learning and how they impact on the classroom environment Education plays a significant role in supporting and influencing the healthy development of children. However‚ teaching is more than just knowing what to teach. Professional teachers must also understand how to teach their students. Therefore‚ in order to create an effective classroom environment which caters for the diversity of students and their various developmental levels and abilities‚ teachers are urged to
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Teaching Preschool Children Early Childhood Education Capstone – ECE 430 Prof. Pilar Carroll January 21‚ 2013 Teaching Preschool Children First of all‚ I would like to say thank you for this interview that is allowing me to discuss my qualifications and philosophy of education. Teaching children brings me great satisfactions because I am contributing to their education. Children are very special and unique as they are still going through their cognitive development. Every child is
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