Comments about Methods
The Direct Object. This method is an important method that can help teachers and students at the same time. It is good because the relation between the student and teacher is direct, they are friends and this help students to be sure and to feel comfortable. The most important in this is that this method help people to develop the 4 macro skills.
I think that this method would be perfect if we combine it with some others.
The Suggestopedia M . This can be one of the best methods for me because it offers a lot of things for students,and most of those things are necesities that we have.
I like this method because it says that students have to feel good with their learning: in sofas ( this is great because our desks in the university are so bad), you listen beautiful songs that can help you to learn vocabulaty and other kind of things, you play with your classmates and you are free to do different things like play the piano, sing a song etc.
I would like this method for me and my children,but I know that this method is very difficult because you have to have excellent teachers with a lot of abilities and the cost is very high.
The silent method. I think that this method is used in some schools by teachers that do not like to work. Maybe it can be used in countries where students are very resposibles about their learning, but here in El Salvador if we apply this and we let students learn by themselves, I think we are not going to get good results.
It is difficul to apply this method because most of students do not have clear objectives in their life, and they do not know the value of education.
For me this method is no so good, especially in El Salvador.
you are right Vane the direct method is really nice and combine with others can be perfect as you say. I think that you may use the suggestopedia method because I know that you like to do many activities when teaching but the problem is that you have to be really dedicated to your job and that requires a lot time, and as you said the expenses to prepare a class will be higher that the payment. well especially in our country.
ResponderEliminarnow the sylent method is really difficult to be applied in our country because students are not accostumed to be responsibles in their studies.
Unfortunately, some teachers are a bit lazy especially at school. They bring a bunch of activities, sometimes they are not even monitoring the class. That is not of course a characteristic of the Silent Way. We may use it just for some minutes in our class and then switch to another approach.
ResponderEliminarYou were talking about the mixture of methods and that is what most of teachers must do. Each of these methods contain some execellent ideas that we might get benefits some time.