Awesome day learning about attitudes towards the curriculum and teaching with focus on a student centred approach rather than the teacher centred approach as taught at College. The historical starter, teach, work, assess, review is out of the window, as it was on actual teaching practice and a student centred environment fostered. Personally, I like this better as it allows students to guide their own learning and gives them more time to inquire, think and analyse even if they do not realise that is what is happening. It is a little more 'free' than the standard lesson planning taught in theory and needs more management, especially where students are easilly distracted, but it works well and results in an overall happy environment.
I have written a Graduate Profile for the ESOL students which reads:
A Graduate Profile for
an ESOL student
My initial thoughts
are that a graduate profile should resemble something along these lines:
- To leave with
perseverance, patience, social communication skills including literacy in their
indigenous language and target language.
- An openness to
opportunities especially for learning and also an openness to others regardless
of any individual factor: gender, culture, race etc.
- Understanding and
perceptions of the world around them based on knowledge of their home language
and comparisons with their target language.
- Confident and
competent speakers and learners.
- Freely express
themselves with the highest expectation being able to speak fluently and
comprehensively.
Curriculum – who will
decide what to teach
ESOL has a place to
assist students across curricula. It is important to determine what students
need to learn, what they want to learn and what would motivate them to actually
learn.
Students would be more
motivated to learn if the content is applicable to real-life, here and now.
Thats all for now - first day over and documents completed and handed in for:
- salary review
- pension scheme application
- tax forms
- contract agreements
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