Seeking teacher advice on effective teaching methods

I am working on my TESOL course and wanted ask a seasoned teacher about their most effective teaching method experience. If anyone can describe their experience, I would be very grateful for the insights.

Do you mean using an individual teaching method? By and large, I find that methods are regarded as pools of ideas and techniques to be taken, used and adapted as seen fit rather than followed in their entirety.

I agree about using various methods based on the situation. But the reason I need an example of one is because my assignment requires an interview from a ESL teacher about their most effective teaching method experience.

Thanks for moving the thread.

DazeDaze said:

I agree about using various methods based on the situation. But the reason I need an example of one is because my assignment requires an interview from a ESL teacher about their most effective teaching method experience.

Thanks for moving the thread.

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I think you have two options:
1. Find a real live teacher and interview him/her face to face.
2. Ask very specific questions in this forum (one to a thread) and see what you get. Tdol has given the best short general answer you are likely to receive.

Please describe your most effective teaching method experience.

thx

How about defining teaching circumstances?
- age of learners
- size of class
- declared aims of course (e.g.spoken English for general purposes or written English for specific purposes)

Sorry, the assignment question is misleading. From my interpretation, and what I plan to write about, I need a teacher to describe and reflect upon a single teaching moment in the classroom that proved to be one of their most successfull teaching moments. With some explanation on how and why it was a success in educating the students.

DazeDaze said:

Sorry, the assignment question is misleading. From my interpretation, and what I plan to write about, I need a teacher to describe and reflect upon a single teaching moment in the classroom that proved to be one of their most successfull teaching moments. With some explanation on how and why it was a success in educating the students.

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I don't think a teacher has any one single moment of success. every day is a success if a student understands and learns what the teacher is trying to teach them.
But if you want to know just one moment from those successes then I can tell you one of mine.
While I was teaching spoken English to the 7th grade I noticed that they got very board with the Grammar lessons, so instead of giving them examples on my own I started to ask them after explaining to them (shall we say for example synonyms and antonyms) They started to give examples and it turned into a class discussion. So from then on I have always tried to turn these Grammar lessons into class discussions as much as possible.

I hope this was of some use to you.

Many, many years ago I was teaching a class about conditional sentences. I uttered the authoritative words, "We NEVER use will (or 'll) in the if-clause". I was heartened to see my students writing down this helpful rule. I was less heartened a few moments later when one of my students asked me why I frequently said, "If you'll leave your homework on my desk as you go, I'll get it back to you tomorrow".



Since that day I have never used the words 'never' or 'always' when giving "rules" ;-). And I have tried to check my facts thoroughly before giving "rules".

I submitted my assignment. Thanks for all the input, very helpful.

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