Week 7 Reflection

Hello Donna and colleagues,

As I stated in one of my previous posts in the previous weeks, the more weeks we enter, the more knowledge to gain and new things to discover. This week also added a lot of new things to the arsenal of my teaching methods. As new teacher, I used to always think about what kind of methods should I used to be a better teacher and avoiding using the ‘’ CHALK TALK’’ method. But since I entered this course, I gained a lot of spices that I could use to enrich my way of teaching.

 This week I read some very interesting articles about learning autonomy, one computer classroom and good strategies of using mobile phone to teach language. Autonomy is the best thing ever we can help our students with because if a student become autonomous then the teacher feels the ease of teaching. Teacher should help their students understand the concept of being an independent learner to their students so that they are involved in making decision and taking care of their own learning. I have never really tried the ways authors in the articles talked about in using mobile phones to teach language, I had some ways which are different from what I saw in the article for example, I used mobile phone to practice listening i.e. I give my students an audio lesson or song to listen to by the sending it to them to their phones and then we discuss about that in the next class. But after reading articles about the use of mobile phones to teach language, I really loved it I will try to adopt those ways next time.

 And also I saw some very interesting things like Pad lets, they are really a great way for a teacher and student to discuss something related to their lesson, share web links, documents and videos etc. it is really simple to use and les time consuming.

I am looking forward to sharing more with you,

    Brahim Abdoulaye Thiam

           Mauritania