Excellence in Language teaching:
Maximize your potential
Piri Szabó
 Rebeca Oxford
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 Dr. Alan Loy McGinnis
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 H.Douglas Brown
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 Dr. Robert Rosenthal
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 Dr. Barbara Shipley
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 Dr. David C. McClelland
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 Claudio de MOURA Castro
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MEXÍVEIS E IMEXÍVEIS
“A Pesquisa mostra que as práticas de sala de aula têm impacto
bem maior do que o conhecimento da matéria. Ou seja qualquer
professor que adotar prática hoje recomendadas terá alunos que
vão aprender muito mais.”
- Claudio de Moura Castro
Methodologies
Educational Psychology
ATTITUDE IN PEDAGOGICAL MANAGMENT
“ The literature on language teaching provides comprehensive
accounts of different language teaching methodologies and is rich
with ideas and techniques for teaching a language. However, what
has become increasingly clear to us is the fundamental importance to
teachers of an understanding of what is involved is the process of
learning. Teacher´s own conception of what is meant by learning,
and what affects learning will influence everything that they do in the
classroom…”
(Marion Williams and Robert L. Burden)
HOW TO BRING OUT
THE BEST IN MY
STUDENTS?
1. Expect the best from people!
2. Helping individuals to develop the attitudes that
learning is a lifelong process and to acquire the
skills of self-directed learning.
3. Create an environment where failure is not fatal.
4. Achievement motivation.
5. Get people to cooperate with each other.
6. Build into the group an allowance for storms.
1-Expect the best from people
A famous study in the classroom by Robert
Rosenthal, a Harvard psychologist:
“Do some children perform poorly in school
because their teachers expect them to?”
CALL OUT THE WORST OR
THE BEST:
1- By assuming a negative attitude and reflecting back to people all
the data about their weaknesses, you put them in touch with their
faults and their behavior becomes worse.
2- By assuming a positive attitude and concentrating on their strong
aspects, you put them in contact with their good attributes and
their behavior becomes better.
Painting a picture
x
Writing a
composition
( DO NOT PATRONIZE THEM!!!!!)
1-Tell students explicitly (verbally and
nonverbally) that you do indeed believe in
them.
2-Have them make lists of their strengths,
of what they know or have accomplished
so far in the course.
2- Developing Learning
Helping individuals to develop the attitudes that learning is a lifelong process and
to acquire the skills of self-directed learning
. Centering your learning
C. Arranging your learning
A. Planning your learning
P. Evaluating your learning
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UNDERSTAND AND
COORDINATE THEIR OWN
LEARNING PROCESS.
H.DOUGLAS BROWN
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What kind of learner are you?
Discovering your Learning Styles
Left Brain and right Brain
Motivating Yourself and Setting Goals.
Developing Self-Confidence and Lowering Anxiety.
Learning to Take Risks.
Kinds of Intelligence.
The Influence of Your Native Language.
Learning a Second Culture.
3- Create an environment
where failure is not fatal
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If teachers can teach people how to handle failure creatively, it
may be the most important contribution they can make.
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Another way is anticipating problems and working on possible
solutions.
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One way is by personal
example.
4- Achievement Motivation
“The best motivated people like to have clear-cut objectives before
them, but objectives that are attainable. People want to have their
capacities streched, but they need to have regular successes.”
-David C. McClelland
(a psychologist at Harvard)
AS TEACHERS WE MUST DEVISE A
GRADED PROGRESSION OF
OBJECTIVES, SO THAT STUDENTS
CAN ENJOY THE REGULAR
FEEDBACK OF SUCCESS.
The art of the compliment
1- Use every success as an excuse for celebration
2- Put your compliment in writing.
3- Be very specific in your praise:
“I liked the way you used the colors for the
tree in your picture”
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Instead of
“That´s a pretty picture”.
 (Eg calling parents)
X
5- Get people to cooperate with
each other
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Most of us can function best when teamed up with at least one other
person.
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The need to belong:
Direct students to share their knowledge;
get your class to think of themselves
as a team.
6-Build into the group an allowance
for storms.
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Build into the group an allowance for conflict.
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Don´t panic when negative emotion occurs. You
should expect it, and be prepared for it.
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Students must have an opportunity to get the
bile out of their systems. (unit feedback, writing
a letter to the teacher)
Cognitive distortions
“Cognitive distortions”, defined as illogical
ways of thinking that lead to negative
emotional states. When people can identify
their cognitive distortions, they can begin to
challenge them.”
“THE MOST POWERFUL
WEAPON ON EARTH IS THE
HUMAN SOUL ON FIRE”
(Ferdinand Foch)
Thank You
Piri Szabó
piri.szabo@pearson.com