The ‘most' key point I will focus on from this course is to always have too much material (which I have comprehensively planned) when I go to teach a class...
Although I am a native english speaker and english is my mother tongue and I have grown up and lived in australia my whole life, I have learned a great deal about the english language which I had either forgotten or I never learned before...
I started the course coming from a teaching style marked by teacher explanation/translating (instead of teacher elicitation/students' production), minimum knowledge of areas encompassing the field of english teaching, and appreciation of best practices...
We talked about reported speech being only what others have said, this will be used along with a close version of your lesson plan (I tend to be unprepared and business students hate that)...
Looking back at the last twenty units, I feel I have gained quite a bit, both in regards to the technical and grammatical aspects of english and the art of teaching english...
The course has been a real eye opener in terms of how I taught before and how I teach now, with each Unit I feel like I have improved in some aspect of my teaching to progress well along a career path that I hope continues for the foreseeable future...
I have personally gained so much from this course! Thank you, Tania especially, for guiding so patiently, professionally and clearly through those tough grammar units...
From the previous 19 units and over the duration of this course I have been enlightened to many aspects of teaching and english grammar that I had either forgot or didn't know quite how to teach...
I've learnt that there are different ways of teaching and different ways to learn and it's beneficial to use a variety of methods so all students' profit...
From this course, I have learned that although one is able to speak english very well, it is altogether different when he or she plans to teach it to students who are non-english speakers...
I have gained a wide range of new information from this course that makes me confident to teach multilingual students of different levels using different teaching methods and techniques...