What Are Your Weaknesses In The Classroom

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1. Consider your strengths in general and refer to the group you had this year.

First of all, I think that it is very important to establish a very good rapport with your students for successful learning classroom environment. So I tried to build a good rapport with them and I think I made it.

Considering the groups I had this year, I was really patient in dealing with the students. During the first and the second month, I realised that 2nd year was going to be a little bit more difficult to deal with as some students’ level were not enough to be in that course and sometimes they were not willing to put the effort it takes to work and learn. Therefore, I did my best by being persistent and patient to help learners overcome those difficulties …show more content…

Although I’ve worked with technology a lot as a student because I’ve learnt fantastic things at the Teacher Training College, I felt that there was never enough time to give learners the chance to go to the self-access and work with the computers. I felt that I was falling behind with the schedule so I gave more importance to that. Yes, I could improve on this next year. I got a lot of ideas and tools to bring into the classroom. I only have to manage time better to give the learners the chance to interact with …show more content…

The problem is that they do not only go to school and have English lessons. They have a lot of other activities and I understand that sometimes they find it difficult to cope with everything. They always have to do a lot of pieces of homework and writings at home because they are supposed to get enough marks that then go to the report card. And I gave them little things to study every week (2nd year) and sometimes they just couldn’t cope with it.

I should improve the area of writing assignments. I think that it is one of the weakest skills students have. I’m going to think of new ideas or ways that allow learners to cope with writing. Maybe a rubric for correction would be a great idea so that learners know what they have to improve and what they are good at.

Well, time management is a problem. I don’t like to go on with the syllabus if learners are still struggling with some concepts so I devote more time to those concepts. But then, I realise that I may be falling behind with the schedule.

3. What are your aims for the next

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