Many important researchers have studied how human beings learn. Piaget has established some stages that explain what human beings are able to accomplish at specific points in their life; therefore, his theory is a way to know and understand our process of learning from a psychological point of view. Thus the learner’s age is an important characteristic which the teacher should take into account to prepare a class in order to provide appropriate language instruction.
Teachers have a huge responsibility, a teacher's first moral obligation is to provide excellent instruction and a teacher with a high level of moral professionalism has a deep obligation to help students learn. We as teachers can help our students by knowing their needs and becoming aware if the importance of the learner’s age. this will help us to create a program, a syllabus or a lesson plan according to the age; in order to maximize students’ potential. In this blog you are going to find some articles about Piaget’s theory used to understand intellectual children development, skills related to the ages, and how a teacher can prepare a class taking into account the learner's age.
2 comments:
Hi!!!
Well, let me tell you that I do think we need to give an appropiate language instruction when teaching.
Before going into the teaching world we should get involved into learning styles, factors strategies and all that jazz. Why?
Well, that is what makes the difference.
At my university where I study my bachelor's degree on English Language Teaching I have received the instruction on pedagogy I have needed. I have studied those factors (and even more) you mention bellow and for sure that it changed my view of what good teaching is.
We, as teachers, have to be aware of the many things teaching includes: students, materials, lessons, preparation, knowlege, factors, motivation, age, social level, abilities...etc(if I continue I will never finish). And also, we should try to put into practice what we have learnt at university since we are capable and do want our students to have a positive experience when learning another language.
I have a blog on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in English Language Teaching(ELT). Visit the blog and feel free to leave comments:
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I completely agree with Lissis' comment but one thing is the theory and another very different is practice; for instance, how come can we overcome if the first stage was not well developed. I mean we as teachers receive children when most of their development has taken place so if sth. went wrong how can we "fix it"...
By the way, Ana great topic!
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