Today's entry somehow pretends to draw a portrait of a teacher considered “not so well-performing” in our Valencian English classroom.Take it with a pinch of salt and draw your conclussions.
We'll go thru some of the most common in-class features, or failures, in terms of teaching practice, and which are particularly applicable in our context.
Let's liven up bilingual lifestyles with our lively teachers
-keep it up (and alive - source: Nov 2010)
-keep it up (and alive - source: Nov 2010)
How much truth can you find in it? Is the transcript as good as it gets?
- How realistic is this description of class life?
- What chunks of the transcript
- Where do you find it unbelievable?
- As the stereotype goes, How many times does the teacher say: please, hush! keep silent! don't be noisy? Are they silent all the way?
- Acceptable CLT? (Communicative Language teaching)
- TTT? (T's Talking Time) / TDT? T's Doing Time)
- How much English was NOT understood?
- How better/worse can it get?
