How to Become a Reflective Practitioner?
As teachers, we understand the importance of reflective practice. Reflective practice allows us to process our thoughts and feelings about a lesson, which in turn helps us develop our own teaching skills, thereby improving our students’ experience and facilitating their learning. However, teachers often have demanding schedules, which means we may not always have the…
‘Who am I as an English Teacher?’ Teaching as Being, Doing, and Feeling
Language teaching is a highly skilled and multi-dimensional activity, and language teachers are dynamic and complex human beings. However, much attention has generally been paid to the pedagogical dimension of the work (doing), leaving the emotional (feeling) and personal (being) aspects largely under-examined. Language teachers are often confronted with the question ‘How do you teach?’,…
The Advantages of Online Communities of Practice (CoP)
Historically, the purpose of language teacher education courses was to drill popular teaching methods and not give the teachers a voice in the experience (Fairley, 2020). Therefore, it was not uncommon for student-teachers to find themselves listening passively to an expert and not having a chance to discuss things further (Zhang et al, 2017). Since…
Teaching as doing
Teaching as doing refers to the approaches, methods, and techniques that teachers employ in their classroom teaching to deliver lessons and facilitate their students’ learning of English. Witin the scope of the project, our Teaching English as doing component will be focused on the implementation of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and online language education.
Teaching as Feeling
Teaching as feeling can be considered in two different ways: 1. The attitudes and emotional responses teachers have towards their own teaching and learning experiences. 2. The ways in which teachers use emotion in the classroom. Teacher Attitudes and Emotional Responses Teaching as feeling is a concept that relates to a teacher’s attitudes and emotional…
Teaching as Being
Teaching as being relates to a language teachers’ understanding of who they are and who they aspire to be as language teachers. These beliefs and desires form a language teacher’s identity. Language teacher identity as a construct has become an emergent trend in language teacher education and second language acquisition research. The identity of a…
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS THROUGH TEACHER ACTIVITY GROUPS 