Re: teacher training report by OULGOUT Abdelouahed Yesterday at 9:03 pm Dear Soufiane,Thank you so much for registerati on. Well, here are some views that might help you develop your paper: What is Teacher Training?Teacher Training is a very special issue to tackle in Modern ELT. It refers to the process oflearning how to put a set of EL T theories and approaches into practice. That is to say, the series of actions, skills, and strategies a teacher or a teacher trainee has to adopt and adapt to so as to successfuly aquire the ABCs of effective teaching inside the classroom. Why choosing such an issue? Teacher Training is a modern field of study in ELT. I t is so developing and alive as the nature ofELT is. That's why choosing such a topic is so special and natural, especially as it is related to the actual field of ELT as it is in action. Probing into such issues will surely develop our applied knowledge of ELT and make our researches so meaningful, so fruitf ul. What to tackle in your Teacher Training research?At first when you attend a classroom as an o bserver, you will have to jot down all that you have observed. That might include the following basic points: 1. The Observation Stage: When you first attented a class, you probably noticed a number of elements related to the teaching atmosphere. These will include: A teacher in action; a group of students; settings; classroom (walls and displays, blackboard...etc); teaching materials (textbook, handouts, bookcase...etc) 2. Planning: Then you notice that the process through which the teacher goes through is not arbitrary, but there is a plan with definite stages, clear objectives, timing, and other procedural steps. The plan depends on the lesson being taught as well as the method being a dopted. That is to say, a teacher my resort to a PPP procedure (presentation, practice, and production) in which he strats a lesson presenting the target items to be taught, then after checking students understanding, the teacher moves on to the practice step engaging his students in some practical exercises, tasks and activities, then comes the production stage where students have to produce something of their own production using what they have learned. A teacher may also resort to an OHE method in which he provides students with somes examples (e.g. a dialogue) highlighting the target items with different colours, then he lets students o bserve them and try to come up with the rule. Later on the teacher provides students with some tasks to experiment the rule they came up with. This later method is purely inductive as oposed to PPP which seems a little bit deductive. 3.Classroom management: It has to do with a set of practices, choices, and decisions a teacher resort to to effectively control his classroom and meets his lesson objectives. The elements to be controlled in the classroom are so many. These in cluse the following:
