Teaching philosophy

An effective second language teacher, is one that is always improving in all aspects needed to teach English to children in an entertaining and dynamic way,  that not only doing the classes based on photocopies or study guides but also can teach through school activities like games, songs, poems,  with the idea to keep children interested in learning English.

Motivation is an important factor because it is the only way they want to keep learning more and more, making the teacher's job as easy as possible, we must remember that in public schools the teacher's role is quite complicated because they have at  least 40 students in classes and we need each of them  learn the maximum possible.   Using different teaching methods we can ensure that children can  speak, write and listen and understand in English,  we can use technology to show children recordings, videos, songs, pictures so they can see the effective use of English in daily life.

Is essential for the teacher create a relaxed atmosphere in classes for students feel calm, so that they can learn more and better, to feel free to ask any questions , to express an idea, give an opinion etc. The teacher's role is always be aware of the questions that children can do, responding in a clear and simple way, if is necessary repeat over and over again and correct as many times as necessary, we must remember that learning a second language is not always easy.

Children learn a second/foreign language easier than adults.

This statement is true,  because children are literally a “sponge” that absorbs everything,  that is scientifically proven to children is more natural and easy to learn a new language, and that doesn´t make the translation process in his mind, the child associates the words such as "synonyms", in fact, this shows that children can develop perfectly well in multilingual environments, this means that the school can learn English and French at home  talk to his parents in Spanish and this doesn´t affect the child development and their ability to express themselves with the environment.

For adults is a little bit complicated because they're used to certain grammatical rules and express themselves in a way that totally changes when you are learning a new language, so adults should devote much more time and make the translation process in his brain to learn how to speak in another language.

Learner Autobiography

It's hard to talk about yourself, but in these lines i´ll  tell you why I chose a career Pedagogy  in English and why  I chose the University of Playa Ancha.

In elementary and secondary education, I always had bad English teachers actually never learned anything useful, only translate text and a few guides to make it at home, nothing hard …well at least for me it wasn´t, but many of my classmate were afraid of the English class because they usually didn´t understand anything.

Actually in school (in general)  I didn´t have very good grades but I liked the English class and was the subject that I was better, so I decided to study education in English for two reasons, first of all because I like,  the second reason to help others to learn a second language is not as difficult as it seems,  you just have to have an interest to learn and dedicate the necessary time, knowing also that the English can open many doors.

I chose the University of Playa Ancha because it was the only one with the carreer in evening mode, which would give me the opportunity to work and study at the same time.

And here I am now trying to do the best!