Teaching Reflections

If you've considered teaching English seriously, you might want to keep notes of moment to moment experience with your client. Every student is different, which requires a teacher to diversify.

I notice that each student has a unique topic of interest:
1. Relationship. She happens to be the most advanced student I have so she is not after achievement but the satisfaction that she will improve the way she expresses her feelings and thoughts about her relationship with other people, primarily her family. For her, I need to come up with common and novel sentences for her to copy and learn by heart.

2. Troubleshooting. Some of my students like to be puzzled so they usually desire to solve problems for me. I just have to think which detailed problems to throw them: computer software and hardware troubles, financial difficulty, lifestyle and so on.

3. Detailed Method of Study. Some professionals know their study habits very well so they trust their own method best. They would suggest materials and way of handling them. This for me is the simplest class to handle.

More subjects and methods to see. I will see to it I update this post regularly.

Power English

I recently receive an email from one of my intermediate level students regarding her preferred mode of instruction. With much appreciation and great anticipation, I quickly scanned her mail. It was so detailed, and the book for the class was picked with careful thought: Power English by Natasha Cooper.

This book comes in series. I'm not quite sure whether this book is available or not in the Philippines. If anyone of you got a copy of this, let me know where you bought it.