Explain How Your Personal Teaching And Learning

1. Comment how your personal teaching and learning philosophy and beliefs influence the way you see teaching and learning.
I have always considered that the place where learning and teaching occur has to be a safe environment for the students and teachers in order to achieve the established goals. I believe teachers have to be aware of students’ needs, interests, conditions, and age. For instance, as Brown (2007) explains, different age groups require different dynamics and activities to learn the language, so teachers must know what techniques to use with students of different ages. However, students have to put the effort in doing what the teacher asks them to do, and not let the teacher do all the work. As well, Collaborative Learning has
We, as students, tend to adopt the best we learned from teachers and avoid what we did not like. For instance, some students might have had a great teacher who put effort into the classes and used a variety of meaningful materials, but they also had a teacher who did not use another material but the book, and the classes were boring. Later on, those students become teachers, it can be thought they will teach just as the “best” teacher did because they preferred to learn with those methods, but sometimes teachers are tired, run out of time, or have several things to do, so they choose to teach as the second teacher, and they become what they tried to avoid. I consider we, as teachers, have to keep ourselves motivated to give the best we can, following our teaching beliefs. However, it is important to consider there are not perfect teachers, but it is essential to know there is the possibility to be a good teacher. Harmer (1998) explains that in a survey, people answer a good teacher was a teacher who has a good relationship with his/her students. I believe that if student teachers have teachers that inspire them, they are most likely to adopt those attitudes when
I really enjoyed the dynamic of the microteaching because I learned from all my classmates how not to be nervous when teaching in front of a class and control myself to have a better performance. As well, I learned how to have better classroom management watching the different techniques they used, and how to present or practice different skills with a variety of techniques instead of using traditional methods. I learned that there is not only one, right way of teaching a skill, as Harmer (1998) explains in his book, but you have to find the most appropriate for the type of students you have. On the other hand, I learned from their mistakes as well. I could see through them, mistakes I make often, and I should avoid. Nonetheless, I could notice my classmates are going to be great teachers because they were very dedicated to their work and they put extremely effort in their microteaching. As well, they made their classes interesting and engaging for