LEARNERS
Age and managment
Age plays a significant role in how teachers deal with students
Considering
-Attention Spam -Metacognitive engagement -Activities and tasks -Motivation -Behavioral issues -Teacher roles
The good learners
Try to guess when they don´t know something
Try to get their message across even if their knowledge of the language isn't very good
Is repared to make mistakes
Try to figure out how language works
Practise whenever they can
Analize the way they and others talk
Have a good self-image and confidence
How students differ
Some students have more APTITUDE for language learning than others and a lot will depend on what their MOTIVATION is.
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES (Howard Gardner theory)
-Spatial -linguistic -logical mathematical -musical -bodily-kinaesthetic -intrapersonal -naturalistic -existencial
For some of them, one intelligence is more developed than other.
Learning styles
-Enthusiastics -rebels -communicative learners - analytic learners
What to do about students differences
Use different lessons to cater different kinds of students
Keep a record of what kinds of activities are successful with the differents types of students
Encourage LEARNER AUTONOMY, by offering LEARNER TRAINING
Learning community
Comunity traits
Kindness
Helpfulness
Respect
Acceptance
Tolerance
Remember important things about each person of the community
Work/ School
Birthday
Family
Likes/ dislikes
Theories of learning and child development
Jean Piaget
His strong belief was that children construct personal meaning trough action:
playing
moving
making things
Lev Vigotsky
Children learn best in the ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT (ZPD)
Abraham Maslow
A hierarchy of needs that learners have
Jerome Bruner
Any learner is able to learn almost anything, provided that the instruction is organised properly
Stephen Krashen
Affective filter Hypothesis:
The filter is lowered when students feel highly motivated, have a strong sense of self and are not anxious. However if they feel anxious, have a low self- steem, the affective filters are raised. We have to mantain the filter down.