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In the first unit, I learned about the characteristics of good teachers and good learners.
I learned that good teachers are kind, patient, able to motivate, gentle in their assessments, knowledgeable, flexible to their students needs, and creative regarding activities. Good students are motivated, confident (though this is very much a product of the teacher's nurturing), curious about the language and eager to play with it, and have open expectations and are willing to work with the teacher. I also learned about what tendencies I might want to avoid as a teacher - such as a rigidity regarding my approach because I am used to one role and not another - and what traits might make my students a greater challenge for me - such as a lack of (self) motivation.
Because I have six months of classroom experience as a teacher, I was able to relate personally to the section on the many roles of a teacher. I was able to think in broad terms about what roles I have played thus far. Because I have worked with very young children at a Beginner level, I have acted primarily as a manager, facilitator, and model. Keeping the classroom under control was the primary challenge in my first teaching job. I thought about how I will need to incorporate more roles in the future as I take on a more diverse range of students. The section on students (and how one group varies from another) allowed me to reflect on how I will need to adapt as I transition to teaching more advanced students in one-to-one tutoring classes. It was very interesting to learn about the differences between adults and young learners and how adults will generally be more nervous, more motivated, and more likely to match their language to English. The commentary on differences between learners from different cultural backgrounds was interesting, though I would be careful not to generalize in this regard.
Finally, it was useful to learn about the six levels of language learning and the European Framework so that I can begin to classify my students after a first evaluation.
