excellence in language teaching: maximize your potential piri szabó

 Excellence in Language teaching:

Maximize your potential

Piri Szabó

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Rebeca Oxford Dr. Alan Loy McGinnis H.Douglas Brown Dr. Robert Rosenthal Dr. Barbara Shipley Dr. David C. McClelland Claudio de MOURA Castro

MEXÍVEIS E IMEXÍVEIS

- Claudio de Moura Castro

“A Pesquisa mostra que as práticas de sala de aula têm impacto bem maior do que o conhecimento da matéria. Ou seja qualquer professor que adotar prática hoje recomendadas terá alunos que vão aprender muito mais.”

Methodologies

Educational Psychology x

“ The literature on language teaching provides comprehensive accounts of different language teaching methodologies and is rich with ideas and techniques for teaching a language. However, what has become increasingly clear to us is the fundamental importance to teachers of an understanding of what is involved is the process of learning. Teacher´s own conception of what is meant by learning, and what affects learning will influence everything that they do in the classroom…”

(Marion Williams and Robert L. Burden)

ATTITUDE IN PEDAGOGICAL MANAGMENT

HOW TO BRING OUT THE BEST IN MY

STUDENTS?

1. Expect the best from people! 2. Helping individuals to develop the attitudes that

learning is a lifelong process and to acquire the skills of self-directed learning.

3. Create an environment where failure is not fatal. 4. Achievement motivation.5. Get people to cooperate with each other.6. Build into the group an allowance for storms.

“Do some children perform poorly in school because their teachers expect them to?”

A famous study in the classroom by Robert Rosenthal, a Harvard psychologist:

1-Expect the best from people

CALL OUT THE WORST OR THE BEST:

1- By assuming a negative attitude and reflecting back to people all the data about their weaknesses, you put them in touch with their faults and their behavior becomes worse.

2- By assuming a positive attitude and concentrating on their strong aspects, you put them in contact with their good attributes and their behavior becomes better.

Painting a picture

Writing a composition

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1-Tell students explicitly (verbally and nonverbally) that you do indeed believe in them.

2-Have them make lists of their strengths, of what they know or have accomplished so far in the course.

( DO NOT PATRONIZE THEM!!!!!)

Helping individuals to develop the attitudes that learning is a lifelong process and to acquire the skills of self-directed learning

2- Developing Learning

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C- Centering your learningA- Arranging your learningP- Planning your learningE- Evaluating your learning

UNDERSTAND AND COORDINATE THEIR OWN

LEARNING PROCESS.

H.DOUGLAS BROWN

• What kind of learner are you?• Discovering your Learning Styles• Left Brain and right Brain• Motivating Yourself and Setting Goals.• Developing Self-Confidence and Lowering Anxiety.• Learning to Take Risks.• Kinds of Intelligence.• The Influence of Your Native Language.• Learning a Second Culture.

3- Create an environment where failure is not fatal

• If teachers can teach people how to handle failure creatively, it may be the most important contribution they can make.

• Another way is anticipating problems and working on possible solutions.

• One way is by personal example.

“The best motivated people like to have clear-cut objectives before them, but objectives that are attainable. People want to have their capacities streched, but they need to have regular successes.”

-David C. McClelland (a psychologist at Harvard)

4- Achievement Motivation

AS TEACHERS WE MUST DEVISE A GRADED PROGRESSION OF

OBJECTIVES, SO THAT STUDENTS CAN ENJOY THE REGULAR FEEDBACK OF SUCCESS.

The art of the compliment

1- Use every success as an excuse for celebration2- Put your compliment in writing.3- Be very specific in your praise:

“I liked the way you used the colors for the tree in your picture”

(Eg calling parents)

“That´s a pretty picture”.

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XInstead of

• Most of us can function best when teamed up with at least one other person.

• The need to belong:

5- Get people to cooperate with each other

Direct students to share their knowledge; get your class to think of

themselves as a team.

• Build into the group an allowance for conflict.

6-Build into the group an allowance for storms.

• Students must have an opportunity to get the bile out of their systems. (unit feedback, writing a letter to the teacher)

• Don´t panic when negative emotion occurs. You should expect it, and be prepared for it.

Cognitive distortions

“Cognitive distortions”, defined as illogical ways of thinking that lead to negative emotional states. When people can identify their cognitive distortions, they can begin to challenge them.”

“THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON ON EARTH IS THE HUMAN SOUL ON FIRE”

(Ferdinand Foch)

Piri Szabópiri.szabo@pearson.com

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