Critical and Creative Thinking
The interaction in how the developed Critical and Creative Thinking is taken in classroom is something necessary to check, also how the teacher introduces the target topic -Mass Media Activity-. This interaction showed us how the Students with the teacher's help create, perform skits, analyze the information, write the scripts at the end perform the role play. What I like the most is how to warm-up the activity with SS' interaction in classroom with simple questions and answers that let Students use Critical Thinking with a higher order thinking skill, analyzing the accuracy, worth of the ideas or statements using reasoning skills to questions and readings. The teacher makes the introduction to the topic by thinking locally and teaching act globally with integrated skills and a variety of self-management. The music helps to time the activity is a good example for time managing, too. I think is a good way to introduce a classroom far away for the 、traditional teaching class.
Well, in my own experience I have developed some techniques in the classroom, what I like the most is simple questions and answers to warm-up the class, then go through the main point It means the target content Most of my students success because the questions are nice, easy and I try to do it in a funny way. All of these activities are working out first, in peer group then in Group work. Also the questions and answers with a sample paper, letting the students analyze each other, have fun at the end make the role play activity with -Mass Media Activity- target content. As examples, you might wish to use some of the other, similar techniques you have seen in different readings from this blog.
I think as I shared in other posts, It is always necessary to use REALIA MATERIAL in our ESL class, going to class without any material and only with the textbook in a traditional way, is like to wish surf in the internet using an ancient typewriting machine. It’s not real and accurate to actual times where the teacher needs to be more creative than ever. Let the Ss work together with self-management and the teacher Is only the facilitator of knowledge after all of this interaction developed through a good lesson Plan or a simple Project Based Learning, using all the integrated skills is where me need the value of silence like McLean’s article says, each period of learning is followed for a period of reaction.
These readings and reflections make me take a long period of reaction to my teaching skills.
DESTROYING THE TEACHER
This article by Alan Mc LEAN shows us how to focus our attention on the conditions under where student learn most effectively, relates the internal process involved in apprehending and storing information, into the most favorable conditions for this process going through theoretical basis and aspects about classroom and teacher’s behavior that seldom is the case is the most important factor in the classroom. He also focuses on five main headings:
REDUCTION OF COERCION
Avoid the typical teaching style -authoritarian- Like the Illich’s phrase the “custodian of the secret”. Here the teacher must show that is no the superhuman, that everything knows, he can make mistakes, and that are many things that can be ignorant. I extremely agree in the part.. -Self-correcting mechanism can operate only when the teacher gives up playing God.- Most of the time teachers have the last word and the students is a mere object, no exist cohesion in the learning process.
EXPERIENCE BEFORE INTERPRETATION
The learner needs time to “mess around” with the target material. The deal of Handling of printed material, or playing with, changing the words of the text, before reading starts is important in class. This period of experiencing the material seems to be a necessary precondition for interpreting. I think it always is necessary to use REALIA MATERIAL in our ESL class, going to class without any material, and only open the textbook in a traditional way, is like to surf in the internet using an ancient typewriting machine. It’s not real and accurate, in actual times where the teacher needs to be more creative than ever. 
The teacher can only provide good conditions within which learning may take place, what I want to take here is what McLean says, “If things are made to easy for the learner, he will not be inclined to use his own resources, I like the idea about step by step approach is the only way to learn. If we taught children to speak they will never learn. What it means ere is that is necessary to let the students take their own difficulties to let them to have their own mistakes no oversimplifying everything and only to help them to resolve a little no resolving all the problem or difficulty. Providing them the ability to pick up context cues within a text is vital to the successful decoding of it. Reading is a selective process. It involves partial use of available language cues…
THE VALUE OF SILENCE
As I wrote before, Far from my students and my teaching class, as a facilitator, as a human being in my humble opinion these readings and sharing my thoughts in my posts make me take a short and deep -period of reaction- about my teaching-learning skills.
I really love this article from Mc LEAN - Destroying the teacher: The need for learner-Centered Teaching. I share this quotation also to apply in my own experience living in China and consciousness or unconsciousness living day by day as part of a culture. “If the culture of the teacher is to become part of the consciousness of the children, then the culture of the children must first be in the consciousness of the teacher” Basil Bernstein. Being part of a culture an interacting with my students let me enjoy my class.
Best Regards
Wilson P. Chiluiza Vásquez
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