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Teaching Journal and Report

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Teaching Journal and Report

a. An introduction

This training manual is made for the teacher teaching students in the class. The manual explains the steps to be carried out while in the class setting and how to make the students be interested in learning. Also covered are the activities that ensure the students are well covered in the classroom settings. Along with the theoretical work, the teacher has implemented various ways of capturing attention and ensuring the students do their learning without any hiccup.  Tactics such as engaging the students at the students level for example coming to class with what students like most; a ball to ease attention of the students, and thereafter asking them grammar questions not only makes the students relaxed but also strengthens the bond between the students and the teachers. 

Another method is to let the students do the homework by themselves, and using other students to do the homework. Letting the students learn from other students eases the tension that might be created in class and helps the students know that they learn can be understood and is not from heaven.

b. A summary of your needs assessment.

The learners from this school need to learn a lot on English grammar and other elements the language. Learning language can be done through many perspectives including storytelling, asking questions and giving the grammar tests. Another element the students were subjected to is time management. Time management is essential in student growth and learning curve, that is why time management is a skill that must be inculcated to the students.

c. A summary of how your contact hours were organized

A sample lesson starts with the teacher greeting the students and the teacher asking them if there is something they lack in class. The students are then taken through a story outlining the grammar requirements of the students. After this, they answer few questions from the context of the story. The teacher can then ask the students' verbal queries from the story. From this point, the teacher gives the written quiz. Another teacher can come in and help the students or a senior student can come and help the students in answering their queries.  In other cases, when the students learn from the chapter of a book, the teacher will help them read through the chapters and also help the students to answer the questions from the textbook.

While answering the questions, the students were placed in a group of five students, each with the one person reading as others follow.  In one group, the students can discuss the contents of the book and later come up with their own understanding of the book. During this time the teacher monitors the progress of every group and notes their difficulties and helps them to address these difficulties. At times, the teachers employ the use of technology in class in order to give a class a different setting. For example, the use of Microsoft PowerPoint may increase the imagination of the students and raise their curiosity in learning. This technique is employed when teaching a syllabus which can be too difficult to handle or might be boring to teach.

d. A description of the course contents

The course contents includes items such as Grammar, life skills; for example stress management, social and organization issues like personal organization like money management, , route finding, personal health care  time management and information seeking, chronic disease self-management, healthy relationships, leisure education, and driver’s preparation and ensuring that the student have all the books bought and kept well, cleanliness and other related issues like time management and class attendance. The students need to ensure that they manage their time well and all other subroutines they undertake in class.  The grammar and vocabulary form a major part of the class learning with every class the teacher introducing a different vocabulary and asking the meaning of the vocabulary. One emphasis is on the social issues that must be taught to students at an early age. These include the right attitude, job seeking skills, customer and communication skills, and vocational usage skills.

Other skills discussed in class include the advocacy, anger management, social skills, conflict resolution and students self-confidence. Living skills and personal hygiene; hygiene and personal appearance, clothing care, and the fundamentals of health and nutrition. Another subject area is the essence of critical thinking. The students need to learn a various aspect of critical and creative thinking.  Critical thinking is essential in handling daily decision-making processes like assignments, students also need to develop argumentative skills at an early age in order to synthesize information and arrive at the conclusive conclusion. This element of life is very helpful in the work place and the careers and while looking for a job. The students should be able to choose from the pool of careers which one suits them most by searching the internet.

e. Your interactions with the student

There are several methods of interactions which are very clear from the text. Teachers employ different methods while interacting with the student. One interaction methods employed is the use of face to face, where a teacher teaches using oral presentation. The other interaction method is using objects which make the teacher be familiar with the students. The attitude includes teaching students while carrying a ball or a toy which pupils love. While encouraging the students to learn how t speak, lectures are very important. The teacher can stand before the pupils and deliver a speech. The students can be given a chance to express themselves by speaking inform of other students. This mode of interaction gives students a good chance of gaining the much-needed confidence both at the workplace and the community.

Another way of interaction is through helping the students through their homework. This type of interaction helps the students to gain insight of the problem from the teacher’s point of view. Students, in general, have different ways for learning and achieving their goals. Some students learn quickly while others need different techniques of teaching to achieve the same goals. Other students do not have time to learn and use the school as playing ground. At the end of the learning curve, all these students need to pass their exams (Csun.edu, 2015). This makes teaching difficult. Teachers through their learning have difficulty  in creating a relationship with students and makes controlling the students very difficult. There is a study which argues that a classroom which is not well organized and students not engaged in the study will always have disruption when the pupils are in that class.

Through helping the students in their homework, the teacher monitors the students in order to become aware of the difficulties the students are having in the subject area. Be it fear, confusion or just not being aggressive, the teacher can use close interaction to know how to deal with the pupils.  Once the pupil’s problem is known, the teacher will be more patient with the student and make the child feel more secure and keep quiet when learning is taking place in the classroom.

The above factors call for the teachers to improve their communication styles like using slides and PowerPoint, monitoring students as they do their homework, providing more homework to be done when the students go home in the evening. When a teacher is in class it is also a good idea to engage them with simple discussion topics as noted in the text. The use of class reports also to establish   the major problems where the students find difficulties. To do this, the teacher will do the following; while in class write out the questions that you are going to ask the students.  Ensure the tasks include the what has been studied in the class. This activity should not take more than ten seconds (Csun.edu, 2015).

As time goes, break your questions to simpler questions and study the class to find out those students who do not participate in class. Let all the students write out the answers to the problems and note the students body language to identify those who have problems through their body language. The teacher should have developed a kind language for the students so that all of the students are engaged in the class

f. Recommendations

There is the need for a good classroom organization. This helps a lot when students need to develop their skills and regulate their behaviors as they become grown up adults.  Another very important point to raise here is that teachers should not think of themselves as the students; they should not use only traditional approaches and the only approaches used (Cte.illinois.edu, 2015). The teachers should be creative while in class and observe the students mood during the interaction in class.  For example when providing the reading materials to students, they tend not to like the materials which they have no known background. They might not have any interest in such a book.  Or they might have difficulty in reading or just confused while reading. This alone threaten the relationships between the teachers. It is therefore recommended that as much as the teacher uses the traditional teaching methods, he should also use the other ways of teaching while in class.

Holding relationship between the student and a teacher is very essential while teaching the students. This is got when the teacher continually interacts with the students. It is important for a teacher to integrate different types of students in learning because of their diverse attitudes towards learning (Tes.com, 2015).  This attitude can be made positive through learning and encouragement; this encouragement should include persuading the students to give regular feedback to the teachers.For the students to get the best out of their learning activities, they need to have the interest in learning activities.  Such activities include;

    Behavior management —how do teachers prevent, redirect and redirect the behavior of the student.  

    Productivity — this measure how well the classrooms run and how the routines are respected by the students. And the degree to which the teachers provide the directions to maximize the students time spent on these activities.

      Concept development — this is how teachers use instructions and discussions and other activities to promote the students high-order thinking skills and cognition in contrast to focusing on mere instructions. Teachers should also value the feedback from the students. A quality feedback is essential for the student growth and monitoring the students' progress. Above all the student should have their language modeled in such a way that will encourage the students to move to the next level of their learning curve.

h. Conclusion

This manual contains a lot of information on the teaching approaches that should be used by the tutors in preparing their students in the classroom. It gives the basic overviews  of the required elements in teaching and training (Csun.edu, 2015). The sections covered include basic teacher- student interaction that will help shape the future of the students. This manual is very important for teachers and instructors both of whom want to know the best instructional methods that could be applied in the teaching environment.

References

Csun.edu,. (2015). The Positive Teacher-Student Relationship. Retrieved 30 November 2015, from http://www.csun.edu/~acc50786/Education.html

Cte.illinois.edu,. (2015). Interaction with Students, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois. Retrieved 30 November 2015, from http://cte.illinois.edu/resources/topics/interact.html

Tes.com,. (2015). Pupil - teacher interaction - News - TES. Retrieved 30 November 2015, from https://www.tes.com/article.aspx?storycode=6005411