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LATINA UNIVERSITY

BRANCH: SANTA CRUZ

PROFESSOR: WARNER ABARCA RUEDA

COURSE: CURICULUM PRINCIPLES

STUDENTS: ALONSO CHAVES OBANDO

TOPIC: APPROACHE TO TEACHING

DATE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 2011



Approaches to Teaching

The education around the world has changed in different ways. Now in day teachers

use many methods for creating a better communication in students. We can define method as

a systematic presentation of the language based on a selected approach. However the

methodology in this century is orthodoxy, which means that the traditional methods used in the

past century are considered for some experts bored and traditional for resolving the student´s

needs, for example a lot of teachers teach according with textbook, that will be a little bit

tedious for some students for this reason, it is important to have a proper methodology as well

as, to modernize each methods used in the past. According with the handout “the notion of

teaching methods has had a long history in language teaching, as is witnessed by the rise and

fall of variety of methods”, for example the audiolingualism, became the orthodox teaching

methods of the 1970s in many part of the world. It is for this reason that we have to be careful

when we use teaching methods. Following the information the methods are an obsession,

principles and advantages are presented.

During many years some teacher based their teaching process in a traditional way, it is

important for teachers to create a fun and interesting class to focus fully on the teaching

process. During the history of education, teachers have based on methods and teaching

materials leaving out the students’ needs, what they really want. However methods and

materials have provided an important tool for teachers because, it allowed having a backupwhen they are teaching an English language. The materials are everything that teachers apply

to teach, could be images, videos, dictionaries, exercises and so on. These materials permit

students to be connected with the English language, as well as influencing the student in a

positive way. Together the materials have a connection with materials adaptation is the

methods or strategies that teachers will apply to their students for having a good class, some

of these strategies are: reduction, extension, rewriting and so on. The majority of teachers who

base their activities in a method, do not change the format presented in the method, this

technique is not all bad, while the teacher uses their own methodology for making different or

better the activity. Personally, I think the excessive use of the same methodology can have

positive and negative consequences for the students and the teacher for example; teachers

may lack proper methodology because they base their activities according with other teachers,

for the student a class based on pedagogy of another person can be boring and a little bit



absurd. We who are studying to be future teachers must take into account the real needs of

our students, not taking into account our needs avoiding boring and tedious class for our

students. The methods should be taken as necessary for guiding our student, for having a

better teaching process, but not something excessive. Besides, teachers have had the need to

use other teaching methods that improve the compressibility of our students as principal need,

we have adapted methods for encourage students to learn English; all teachers must select

the resources and materials that planning to use. Some educators believe that does not matter

the material or resources that they choose because for them the most important thing is to

teach the class but, they are wrong, it is important to choose appropriate resources and

materials because they are fundamental tools for developing and enriching the teaching-

learning process of the students . As well as teaching materials have changed mainly as a

result of the emergence of new technologies. Today teachers have many resources at its

disposal to ensure better students for example we can include personal resources, a authentic

activity remembering students’ needs, it is also important to take into account some

characteristics that materials should have for example: size, the impact will cause to the

student, such as curiosity and interest , something very important to take into account is the

multiple intelligences, for instance there are children who love to jump but, others like painting

or learn using their own creativity. Besides now we have technology material resources for

example printer, audiovisual or computer as well as have the newspaper is a traditional an

important material resource, I think is a wonderful learning resource because, to show the

reality of the world, every day we have problems for facing. With them, we focus on

audiovisual resources; they at the same time have been evolving throughout history. Today it

is easy to see DVD player in almost all schools, videos and movies tapes are almost obsolete

and very difficult to find, music tapes have become a music CD. Also is important to mention

the movies, it´s very important educational resource for us, we do not forget that many of our

students learn many things through the television. Technology has helped the teachers to use

other methods for instance the video beam is an important tool today used regularly, because

is very easy to project to the students, pictures, diagrams or summaries of what we want to

explain.

However, the methods have principles that try to improve students for example,

involving the control into the automatic process thinking about its forms on rules of language.

The interaction between one´s approach and the classroom practice is the key to dynamic

teaching. The beast teachers are able to take calculated risk in classroom: as new student



needs are perceived, innovative pedagogical techniques are attempted. At the same time

second language learners tend to go through a systematic developmental process as they

progress to full competence in the target language. Giving those communicative competences

are the goal of a language classroom, instructions needs to point toward all of its components:

organizational, strategic and psychomotoric. Communicative goals are best archived by giving

due attention to language use and not just usage, to fluency and not just accuracy, to authentic

language and contexts, and to student´s eventual needs to apply classroom learning. An

approach to language pedagogy is not just a set of static principles. It is, in fact, a dynamic

composite of energies within a teacher that changes.

The advantages based on methods are amazing when the teachers use very well,

usually the teacher apply different methods during their classes, that is an excellent way to

reach the students development for instances, the communicative language learning is a

method useful in the schools and high schools because, making that the students works

together, equally encourage their confidence. I think that we have many advantages using

learning methods, but it is very important to modernize those methods at the same time use

our own methodology for improving to the students. Other advantage in using a method is that

motivate teachers to engage in a careful process and to follow a rule for having the control of

the class, according with some researchers the methods that the teachers use are very helpful

for the learning and teaching process. Equally important is to help students to be independents

is a good method can help them for being in the way. I believe a good method with a excellent

pedagogy can be a professor very successful.

As a personal conclusion of this information, I consider that an approaches are very

important to help students but at the same time we must to be careful for avoiding fall into the

orthodoxy way. Now in day we have many resources for help students to have a excellent

experiences in classes. This essay enriches me in my process as it shows me the reality of the

situation in schools related to the use of methods. It is very important for me to identify the

need of the students because, this will be a key to teach English language, as a moral for me,

a creative class is synonymous of a successful class for the students, and motivates them to

learn the English language. The information left to me positive thoughts and knowledge about,

the importance of being a creative person in class, because this is a way to improve the

teaching-learning process in our students.

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