My Great TESOL Course-TESOL student's Experience

Today I have finished my whole TESOL Advanced Programcourse. As an experienced teacher , I’ve gained a lot.

During this course, Alex tells us a lot of Warmupactivities, which is so funny. I thought a lot about my present class after thefirst day’s class, because I always kept teaching my students knowledge pointsand language skills all the time without let them feel fun behind English.There definitely are some problems in my class, say, some students can’t focuson their mind all the time and some students can’t remember what I told them.Faced this situation, I always complain about their language foundation andtheir parents’ guide at home. I got the solutions in this course. Actually,there are 8 kinds of learners,verbal learner, audio learner, musical learner,social learner, solitary learner , physical learner, logical learner andcombination learner. What I should do is to improve myself instead ofcomplaining about my students, even their parents. I must implement differentteaching methods to different learners. Actually, some ways are easy for me totake up in my class, say, for musical learner, I can prepare some pieces ofmusic and rhyme very easily. I remind myself that I must do it after going backto my class.

Besides that, the 8 thinking maps (bubble map, doublebubble map, tree map, brace map, bridge map , flow map, multiflow map andcircle map )made a deep impression on me. I’ve seen these thinking maps on thebook before. But I seldom used them in my class. During TESOL class, I’ve gotknow deeper about these thinking maps, which really a good tool for teachingvocabularies, reading and summary. I will use them and also encourage mystudents to use them.

Next, that is how to teach vocabulary. Teachingvocabulary should cover 4 aspects, spelling, usage, meaning and pronunciation.I often pay more attention to spelling rather than the usage in differentsituation and different meanings. Also, what Alex brought to me is the clearconcepts of word formation, compounding, conversion, clipping, back formation,blending, onomatopoeia, acronyms and eponym. Before that, I am just familiarwith compounding, onomatopoeia and misunderstand abbreviation as clipping. OnceI made mistake and even ignore this part. That is so silly. Being a teachermust be learn all the time. During this part, I know the importance ofpractice. Furthermore, it’s better to practice in different and funny classroomactivities. For instance, hitting monster ,repetition, word association andword network are good way to consolidate the vocabularies.

Now I want to recall how to teach WH questions. Ithink I emphasized on the WH questions in my class. But the feedback andresponse from my students always are not what I want.It’s more likely for themto answer my questions by using just one word or one phrase. They rarely talktoo much about a topic or a question. However some tools introduced in theTESOL course are very useful, like Talktastic Board game and 5W chant:

who, what,when where why why

Who, what, when , where, why why

who did it.

What did you do.

When did you do it.

who, what,when where why why

Who, what, when , where, why why

Rhyme is a fantastic way to remember all the things,especially for teenagers and kids. I like it.

Then, in how to teach speaking part? In fact, I alwaysemphasize on spelling and reading part. After TESOL course, I’ve got so muchideaabout   how to teach speaking part. Meanwhile , I will give speaking part more attentionand improve my students’ ability to speak. First, I should change my classinto whole-English speaking class. That means I should prepare a lot before theclass. Definitely the speaking activity is really important, script role play,unscripted role play, interview ,questionnaire and Lie to me. One of theactivity is very practical,that is , six thinking hat. This is to say, we candescribe a topic in six aspects, topic, facts, feelings, good , bad andcreative. Cool! If one person can think about one topic in these ways, he willget a lot of to say.

Last, I want to talk about what I have learned fromhow to teach reading part. Reading is the core of learning the second language.In my class, teaching reading is a little bit boring for my students. It’s morelikely to be a translation class. During this course, I’ve got a lot ofinteresting reading activities, like Jigsaw Reading(just like a puzzle reading). After going back to Wuhan , I can use mind map and interesting readingactivities to read original articles.

In conclusion, I’ve learned a lot. I like this course.I keep taking note in my room at each night. I want to keep and practice thesemethods in my whole class and share them with my friends. Thanks for TESOLAdvanced Program and Thanks, Alex!

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