Teaching & Learning English in Chile: What Every Teacher Should Know

De: Thomas Jerome Baker

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This book is for parents, students, teachers, administrators and anyone else with an interest in English Language Teaching and learning in particular, and education in general. Educators will find this book useful at all stages of their careers. This 4-Book collection covers four critical areas: 1. Teacher leadership, 2. Dealing effectively with standardised national & international tests, 3. The use, misuse and abuse of the students' first language, the "Mother Tongue", and 4. Connectivism, or self-initiated, connected learning in the digital age. Connectivism has been called, "Constructivism on Steroids" due to its exponential capacity to bring people and knowledge together. The book includes: - An individual, active Table of Contents for each book accessible from the Kindle "go to" feature. - A low, can't-say-no price! Only $0.99 for over 370 pages! I sincerely believe there are 4 things every teacher, not only in Chile, but worldwide, on a global scale, should know: 1. The "Mother Tongue" history 2. Educational Leadership 3. The National English Test 4. Connectivism I therefore set out in this book to bring these four topics together, in a coherent, non-sequential fashion. The “Mother Tongue” responds to research and practical experience that says teaching English, in English, is how we get our best results. “Educational Leadership” fills a gap by raising our awareness of our individual leadership potential, while the “National English Test” is how we are currently defining the quality of our teaching on a collective, national level. Finally, “Connectivism”, as a theory of learning for a digital age, gives a view of what the future holds up as a promising way forward in ELT pedagogy. I am certain you will be positively influenced & enriched by the reading of this book. I hope you enjoy the journey of discovery that lies before you.... To write and publish such a book as this one, there is an army of people who play a role. In self-publishing, however, there is an army of one. I am that “army of one”. I felt a need to bring together four topics which are rarely spoken of in ELT in any consistent or exploratory manner, though by no means taboo topics: 1) The Mother Tongue, 2) Leadership, 3) The National English Test, and 4) Connectivism. My hope, obviously, is that this book will make a contribution to fill the existing gap betwwen theory and practice. In reflection, dialogue, and ultimately, in our practice, we seek to find the secrets of becoming the best possible teacher we can be. Self-publishing, as we can see by my example, is a valid way for teachers to ask questions, raise issues, explore profoundly, consistently, and durably, to inform the knowledge and practice of other teachers. I encourage other like-minded teachers to self-publish, as I have done, and in anticipation of your future efforts, rejoice in your contribution to the development of our knowledge about what works best in English Language Teaching. Thomas Jerome Baker is the Past-President of TESOL Chile (2010 – 2011). He is the Coordinator of the English Department at SEK International High School in Santiago, Chile. Thomas is also a member of the “Comunidad de Innovación Escolar” (School Innovation Community), sponsored jointly by the Education 2020 Foundation and the Telefónica Foundation. He is a past member of the Advisory Board for the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL), where he also serves as a reviewer and as the HETL Liaison for Chile. Thomas enjoys writing about a wide variety of topics. His writing ranges from historical fiction to romance, from the autobiographical to the biographical, Connectivism, Debating, Reading, Writing, from English Language Teaching (ELT) to the wider field of educational leadership and evaluation. If you have read and enjoyed any of his books, please take the time to write a customer review. Thank you kindly in advance for your support.