Describing Learners- Jeremy Harmer

Describing Learners

There are many reasons for students or for a person to learn English. Some students needs English for a specific purpose and is our responsibly to easily provide the correct learning environment and detect all learners differences.

Harmer has written about the different age groups, about importance in every stage and what we should be careful with, also he has written about learner differences, learner styles and language levels which also are one of the most important basics working with our students. The importance on creating a desire to learn by motivating our students and provoke them curiosity to stay interested in learning, the real motivation come from within each individual, from the students themselves.

I agree with Jeremy, because our students' age is one of the important things which we should find out before we start to work in a class. Because “people of different ages have different needs, competences, and cognitive skills" which teacher should remember. Children are not as experienced as adults are so teacher cannot use the same level of language and methods to all groups. I can clearly relate all this with my teaching practicum experience in which the mentor teacher used the same strategies and learning styles for all levels. We as future teachers have to understand that the purposes students have for learning will have an effect as a result influenced of what they are taught. Our main goal as teacher is to provide the correct motivation and knowledge to educate our pupils with the correct tools they deserve.

Describing teachers - By Jeremy Harmer

Describing teachers

A teacher is someone who inspires their students to do their best. A teacher is a good teacher when her priority is to help the students to have a better understanding, by giving them the correct tools to accomplish their main goals in learning successfully.

Jeremy Harmer confirms that “good teachers are born, not made”. Describes a good teacher to show passion for the profession, and show positive attitudes while teaching. He says that the personality is really important in the process, we have to be ourselves, not only as a professionals but as “person as well” to connect more with the students, not leaving behind our main roles in the classroom. In order for us to have a better relationship with the students is really important to build rapport by recognizing them, listening to them, respecting them. He says that our skills and knowledge are more than important to organizing successful lessons, and create a positive environment that motivate the students to learn more and love what we do.

 I agree with Jeremy because everything begins with a positive attitude to see thing in life, to create healthy environments that not only will help us but also the people around us. Professionally speaking is our responsibly to get to know deeply our students and provide them the correct tools to successfully feed their learning, with the correct skills, resources, and knowledge that we as teacher should know. Finally, I have to say that their future is in our hands, is our responsibility to provide the correct input to create a great outcome that can change the world

Special Needs

During my teaching practicum back in September  , I had a wonderful experience in the institutions i was in for, a period of 4 months .The students were really nice and really interesting in the teaching topics and materials.Most of the students loved  to work fast, and were well adapted.

Their favorite part was when I used to bring teaching resources for them to create and apply their own  knowledge working in groups , pasting, painting, putting their own thoughts in to a project creation.

I have to mention that there was pupil called Denis , he was really shy and had this particular way of talking . I remember that day clearly.My mentor teacher of the wrote a practice on the whiteboard for the students, to write it down on their notebooks ,and make the exercise,while everybody finished to copy and make the exercise, Denis was staring to write the first line of the exercise ,at that moment he called my mentor teacher and asked her :Teacher, do you have an eraser ?  and she replied , Why you haven't finish to copy what I said?(with a rude tone of voice), he replied, because I'm really tired!she answered again. DENIS! everybody is tired, I'm tire more than you think , he just listened and continued to write . While he was trying to write , she started saying to him , Denis! you need to hurry up , you see ! everybody already finished and your not even done ? (keeping her sarcastic way of speaking ) because she was "loosing time" to go the teachers room to talk with her collegous  about her wedding dress already chosen, for her wedding on December  . Denise  looked frustrated , and depressed , I could see it on his face . 

She told me , look he is a kid that I guess he has a difficulty , but  he is lazy and does not want to  do what I say  and he is always behind on everything . 

I went to his desktop and I he said to me, sorry teacher, I'm trying to write as fast as I can , I told him do not worry ! take your time , you can do it. He looked at me and  screamed with his eyes....