Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Week 3 Readings
This weeks reading was full of information. In chapter 1 of Beyond Methods, I was presented with different roles that teachers play. Teachers can be passive technicians, reflective practitioners, and transformative intellectuals. Each role includes characteristics of another role. Teachers play many different roles through out the school day and even the school year. Knowing these roles and how they connect and integrate into one another will help me plan my roles accordingly. Chapter 2 of this book gave me a few things to think about. The chapter discusses the dislike of methods, this is new to me. Kumaravadivelu suggest a postmethod pedagogy with three parameters. The parameters of particularity, practicality, and possibility. Again these parameters share characteristics of one another, they work together to create a relationship. I think the roles that teachers play and the parameters of the postmethod pedagogy show what teaching a second language is really about. You can't have just one or the other. The roles and the parameters intermingle and build on each other and this is what happens in a language learning environment. Language learning builds off several different aspects from methods, to parameters, to the roles that the teachers play in the classroom.
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I agree with your post in the case that language learning builds off of several different aspects such as methods, parameters and teacher roles within the classroom environment. I think it's important to acknowledge the role of a teacher not only as a giant bowl of content knowledge, but also as a facilitator of learning because teachers teach more than content and that is overlooked a lot of times. In our high stakes testing environment, I think a lot of time is spend trying to account for the methods teachers use to teach the students, but I feel that most administrators don't take into account certain parameters that affect instructional objectives and classroom goals.
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