It's a great pleasure today to hear the lecture from Allen, it was filled with practical, positive, and "powerful" tips towards teaching.
Useful notes:
- you're fully responsible for teaching the lessons to the students
-mental establishment: "While we teach our children about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
-principles of teaching: be *Professional & Powerful & Precise
-"Professional" as in you have to be well prepared, and let the students feel they can trust in you for receiving knowledge
-"Powerful" as in making the students feel it natural to follow you because you're a teacher who knows the right thing to do... and how to achieve higher purpose
-"Precise" as in be specific but concise in teaching instructions and explanations
-Q: What should I know about my class? A: English level/ class types (all girls, boys, coed, gifted)/ names (memorize them, how? ex: tell them you need to memorize their names and then take photos, visit their class website...)/ homeroom teacher (maintain harmonious relationship with the homeroom teacher)/ class learder/ English TA 英語小老師/ weekly class schedule (know when to give exams, know their self study classes, know when they have energy-consuming PE classes...)
- "The more organized you are in teaching, the more co-operative the students will be."
- have a schedule of teaching (ex: 4-5 periods for a lesson + magazine)
- give the unit test in their self study classes
- arrange at least 2 periods for review before big exams
- Q: What to say to them for the 1st time? A: be professional looking, tell them your expectations (participation/ attitude/ scoring criteria/ specific catchy slogan), simple and straight-forward rules (create a negotiation space between you and the students, but the difference is the rules are set by you)
- Q: Should I go to my advisor before every class? A: Yes. At least email the advisor of your procedures and major activities before class, so you can get good advice, and save a lot of trouble experiencing the wrong ways of teaching. Also it's polite to invite the advisor to your teaching regularly.
- Your feedback comes mainly from your teachers and peers, need not ask students to give feedback sheets every class... but you can give them one before you leave
-When you ask questions in class, be fast paced to keep the flow... can call their names/ use "big cross" etc fun ways
- rehearse lesson before class, memorize outline, download short funny videos
- General class management principles: 1) discipline & cleanness 2) positive atmosphere 3) advancement of scores and build-up of confidence
- *suggested fun and short video clips on youtube "kid's reaction to _____"
-擅用相機 ---解決髒亂問題、讓學生表現好點
-幹部老師選，學生推薦
-提深成績的方法：pair up 比賽、make a bet, (30-70元/大冒險ex: 帶蛙鏡唱歌)
-agenda: 感謝欄、佳文分享、連絡本“學生與你溝通想法的平台！你月認真回覆、他們越認真與你分享！“...Tina you can do that in English some day...
-在乎學生的表現，雖不代表他們的成績會立即好起，但他們絕對會改變態度，變得更肯定自己、更積極
