Studying How We Learn

Before going into teaching #English #teachers should study how we learn… especially since English course books are designed to suit a syllabus which most teachers never bother to check before they use them… a syllabus only imposed by publishers… and not students’ needs… making a great deal of their teaching and teaching efforts pointless…

I strongly recommend studying how the brain works -and how people learn- before engaging in a teaching endeavour… as I recommend in THE COMPREHENSIVE TEACHER and BRAIN WORKS…

I realised halfway through my English teaching career that teachers spend most of them time not teaching English… but asking their students to compile words, lists and rules… nothing they need…

English should be made simple, fast and efficient !

Anybody can learn to speak English or most languages in a matter of a few dozen hours… while students are made to believe that it is long and hard… and spent most of their life not learning to speak English… or rather trying to learn to speak English but never mastering the bases even of English !

Most people who have learnt English for years still can’t speak enough English to save their lives… worse, most never understood what they were taught… worse still, most teachers couldn’t explain their students the whys and hows…

Most teachers complain about the lack of interest of their students… but how interest do teachers invest in their teaching ?

Studying how we learn promotes understanding how we should teach as teachers will understand students learn… and should give teachers guidelines as to improve their teaching and their choice of teaching material and support as well as teaching approach…

Jesse CRAIGNOU (jesse.craignou@yahoo.fr)

PS : I regularly train and coach teachers through workshops and seminars… contact me if you think I can assist you…

Also check THE COMPREHENSIVE TEACHER

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comprehensive-Teacher-EFL-TEFL-Companion/dp/1542314410/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1531988301&sr=8-1