Learning to teach ESL

I have attached a digital copy of my Continued Professional Development Report in this blog entry. It is a reflection on the usefulness of the resources that I chose to assist me in the development of my English language teaching and professional development. It discusses the ease of use, benefits and drawbacks of the resources, my learning takeaways, and my recommendations for others....

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I have attached a digital copy of my Final Self-Evaluation Report in this blog entry. It includes a list of my strengths as a teacher, areas for improvement, my focus for the future, and a reflection on the student teacher evaluation. It also contains a list of my practicum teaching reflections, my student evaluation questions and results, and a list of comments received...

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I completed the final two teaching hours on June 26th. I will reflect on both of the classes below. I think that the teaching that I did for the reading course went very well. I fit the content for the review class into the Jeopardy game. Most of the categories that I set up were focused on reviewing vocabulary that the students have...

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I have chose only one resource to examine this week to help me develop my ninth and tenth lesson plans. The resource that I chose was published by a website called Busy Teacher. The website contains a blog where authors write about various aspects of teaching and it provides teachers with teaching materials that they can include in their lessons. The resource that...

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This is a lesson plan for the cultural conversational class that I taught on June 26th. It provides students with the opportunity to reflect on the cultural differences between Canada and their home countries and to ask questions about Canadian culture anonymously. It also consists of several short games where students can practice using their listening and speaking skills. References Matheny, R. (2013)....

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This is a lesson plan for the Reading Strategies class that I taught on June 26th. It focuses on reviewing the vocabulary and reading strategies that were taught in the course to help prepare the students for the final exam later in the week. I did not prepare a lesson plan because all of the review topics and activities were included in a...

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I completed two more teaching hours on June 21st. I decided to teach vocabulary again this week because I wanted to get more practice. This would help my sponsor teacher assess my teaching ability and to provide me with more feedback about what I did well on and what I need to improve on. Reflecting on the courses I think that the teaching...

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