crucial and the teacher must understand its importance. It is especially essential when teaching young students and adolescents. There are two types of motivation: extrinsic (stimulus forms outside the classroom and individual‚ forced by external influence‚ e.g. different rewards‚ social approval etc.) and intrinsic (motivation comes from inside the classroom or personal interests of the student‚ e.g. method of teaching‚ activities presented in the classroom). The key problem connected with motivation
Premium Foreign language Language education Teaching English as a foreign language
Why Teaching? by Perry Sunderland It started when I was in middle school‚ the dream to be an Architect. It was with me all through High School and into college. The whole time I always said I would either be an Architect or I would teach it. After failing my engineering course for the fifth time‚ I dropped out of college. Then After about 2 years of searching for something‚ I joined the Air Force. All the while realizing that I was not happy with what I was doing. After nine years traveling
Free High school College
Using Drama Activities and Techniques for Teaching English What is Drama? Drama is a unique tool to explore and express human feeling. Drama is an essential form of behavior in all cultures‚ it is a fundamental human activity. In this site we are investigating the benefits Drama can have on child development when applied functionally within a primary classroom. Drama has the potential‚ as a diverse medium‚ to enhance cognitive‚ affective and motor development. A high degree
Premium Drama
Reflection of my personal development on Professional Practice/ Leadership and Management/Personal Effectiveness It is of importance that we should start building up on our personal development in teaching from the start of the NIE in-service training programme and continue on when we join the teaching fraternity to be a full-fledged teacher and as we advanced further up the education career tracks. For me‚ professional practice is a set of values‚ attitude‚ knowledge‚ skills and behaviours that
Premium Education Management Skill
TEACHING AS A CAREER One day you go to school for the last time. What to do after that? You realize that the time to choose one job out of hundreds has come. Before you can choose‚ you ask yourself quite a lot of questions. Many young people consider teaching as a career. It is a real challenge to your character‚ abilities and talent‚ as teaching is a constant stream of decisions. Children in the classroom aren’t just boys and girls. Every is a unique individual who has never been
Free Education Teacher Learning
I’ve been working as a teacher for a year and four months now. Yet my understanding of being a teacher is still evolving day by day. I realized that how I understood this profession was not yet substantial until I was immersed in the actual teaching scenario. I realize that the books‚ lectures‚ and inputs given by my college professors‚ when I was just an education student‚ are just spectacles of what is in store for me. When I ask my students what course they are planning to take up‚ they tend
Free Teacher Education
in physical education classes. Physical Education in our curriculum today has changed as has the way we live our lives‚ entertain ourselves and technology. Before we look at what is considered today to be qualities of good physical education teaching‚ we need to look at where the notion of ‘busy‚ happy‚ good’ has come from. Richard Tinning‚ David Kirk and John Evens outline the progression of what has been deemed to be quality physical education in Australian schools over the decades. Their
Premium Education Physical education Teacher
Teaching as Career and Not as a Pay Check Many people that choose to become teachers because someone in their family was a teacher. Some teachers started out in another profession and never thought about teaching at all. After watching the National Teachers of the Year and listen to their stories it has enlighten me on why I choose to be a Teacher. Why do I want to be a teacher? I want to be a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in a child’s life. I volunteered in many elementary schools
Free Education Teacher School
Teaching Style To place you in context. As we all know‚ the human being has 5 senses and these senses are the information input in various forms. The intensity of the data or the stimuli collected by these senses‚ determines the residual effect or impregnation (souvenirs‚ memories…) in the brain. For example: You just have to think about the best souvenir you have of a favorite teacher and ask yourself why? you remember the particular situations. All answers regardless of the individual will indicate
Premium Teacher Perception Education
Teaching speaking skills 2 - overcoming classroom problems Submitted by TE Editor on 16 February‚ 2004 - 13:00 This article is written for teachers with large classes of students who have encountered some of the following or similar problems during speaking activities in their classroom. * Why should we teach speaking skills in the classroom? * Motivation * Speaking is fundamental to human communication * Dealing with the arguments against teaching speaking skills * Student’s
Premium Teaching English as a foreign language Education English language