About Teaching Practicum one !!!!

About Teaching Practicum one !!!!

    

 This class has been designed with the purpose of letting English-teaching students be acquainted with general principles of young learners’ development, second language acquisition and approaches in teaching children English as a foreign language.

This course will be divided into three periods.

Ø Period 1:

·        Early childhood: physical and cognitive development.

·        Early childhood: psychosocial development; middle childhood and physical development

·        Middle childhood: the concrete operational child.

·        The aggressive student: attention deficit disorder (ADD).

·        The disruptive student: the gifted student.

Ø Period 2:

·        Children learning English: planning for children’ language learning.

·        Learning and reviewing vocabulary.

·        Teaching with songs.

·        Becoming an effective teacher in the four macro skills.

·        Creating, adapting and evaluating activities for language learning.

·        Involving children in making an using resources.

Ø Period 3:

·        Managing pupils’ language learning.

·        How can I be a better language teacher?

·        Effective teacher-pupil interaction.

·        Error corrections

·        Test design

·        Feedback

     I hope this course can help you (readers of this blog) to have a better understanding of all the things that children go through so that you can comprehend their behavior and look for ideas to teach them anything you want them to learn.