PEDAGOGICAL  PROJECT II

When talking about the physicall setting of a school, people usually think that it is just referred to the building and the physical location of the school; but educators are the only ones who realize of the importance of having a comfortable and adequate physical setting. The quality of a physical environement is essential for ensuring students' engagement in their learning and teaching process since it is correlated with students' outcomes and their behaviour during the lessons.

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It usually looks easy to arrange a classroom assigning different seats to students to fill up the class, but it goes beyond that. Most of the experts on classroom management and experienced teachers say that having an appropriate seating arrangement during the lessons can have a positive impact on classroom discipline, students' interaction and the effectiveness of  the instructions. There are many different ways for students' seating arrangement during the class, and selecting the ...

Today, technology is everywhere accessible to everyone; it has brought many changes to our society specially when talking about education. The learning and teaching process has changed through the time by implementing the use of technology in the lessons. Even though there are many professionals on education in favor and against of the use of it, the truth is that it brings many advantages to the students' development.  Using technology in the classroom  helps to facilitate the lear...

As mentioned before, a teacher needs to implement a variety of materials as well as strategies in order to catch students' attention and engage them in the learning process. This works better when talking about teaching a foreign langugae such as English since it requires assigning different activities depending on the skills of the language to be develop, and the different students' learning styles. 

I think that it is essential that English teachers use different kind...

Learning a second language is not easy, it is a process that takes many time, dedication and motivation not only by the learners, but also by the teachers. The use of materials in the classroom is really important since they help both teacher and students, to make easier the learning. When using materials in the classroom, the teacher makes the lesson more creative and dynamic, which help the students to be motivated and focused on the lessons.

Through the observations I could notice t...

When teaching to children or teenagers, especially a foreign language such as English, it is important to keep in mind that they tend to get easily distract and misbehave during the lesson. On the one hand, children have a short attention span so they usually misbehave or move around the classroom when the teacher is teaching; on the other hand, teenagers can be concentrated in the lesson but they are in the age of rebel in which they feel that they can do whatever they want, that is the reas...