HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH WITH TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS

 “How do both books empower your teaching skills to become an effective

efl/ esl teacher?

“Relating to adolescents”, by Susan Eva porter and “Effective Classroom Management: A Teacher's Guide”, by Colin J. Smith and Robert Laslett; are two really interesting books aimed specifically for new teachers who want to begin a teaching career.They talk about how adults can have a good relationship with adolescents, knowing that adolescence is one of the most difficult stages in life. For example: teenagers have intense thoughts, intense feelings, and intense relationships.

Susan E. Porter writes on her book: “Science is now paying lots of attention to the teenage brain, and one of the most significant findings is this: The brain is still under construction during adolescence. In fact, the teenage brain is going through a veritable renaissance of growth, almost on par with the initial childhood spurt.” (Chapter 1, page 3). For this reason a teenage shows different ways to act every moment and every situation. This behavior is so complex that some teenagers can create themselves the idea that teachers are enemies. In this way teachers must know what they can do.

“Differential expectations are shown by the way teachers talk to different individuals or groups; by the way they question them, by the type of tasks set for them and by the amount of time spent with them.” (Effective C. M. chap. 2 page 15)

To be prepared for this situation; those two books are the best guide that teachers can use to understand teenagers behavior. Doing this, teachers will be able to create a good atmosphere in the classroom.

This goal is not easy for anybody, as Susan E. Porter writes: “grown-up behavior comes naturally; it has to be learned and practiced. In some ways, we have as much to learn in the teenage world as teenagers do, but unfortunately this part of the job doesn’t come with an instruction manual.” (Chapter 3, page 60).

In fact, a teacher must consider the stress and the feelings that every teacher has in the moment to do the profession. “When things go well in the classroom, teachers do not experience unpleasant emotions... It is when pupils do not accept or respond positively to their management strategies which are usually successful, that anger, tension, frustration, anxiety, depression, nervousness and conflict, or a sufficient number of the unpleasant feelings arise, so that teachers feel stressed.” (Effective C. M. chap 9, page 116.)

This is the reality that we as teachers live every day at schools, for this reason those two books are so important for us to develop our role of good teachers.

Now we know what we should do in a determinate situation. For example: what teachers should do with the counselling and discussions with disruptive pupils.

Not only solve the problem, but also understand the causes of that behavior.                          why should both in-service and pre-service teachers be aware of the concepts of management, mediation, modification, and monitoring?

Service and pre-service teachers should be aware of the concepts of management, mediation, modification and monitoring because every teacher in every school must be aware of the situation that teenagers live not only in the classroom or in the school, but also at home and in the life.

For many reasons, inside the classroom we always find some disruptive students. Those students hinder the development of the class because call the attention of others and distract them.

For that reason teachers must know what they can do in a similar situation, in order to maintain a good environment in the classroom.

Teachers cannot be angry all the time with disruptive pupils, maybe they only want to call the attention from someone, but in the other hand; teachers cannot let disruptive pupils do whatever they want. Teachers must be able to control the class, keeping in mind the concepts of management, mediation, modification, and monitoring. And knowing in what moment they will use them.

 • why do both in-service and pre-service teachers need to practice the seven

grown-up skills that serve to distinguish our behavior from that of our

teenage students?

Firstly, we have to remember that teachers are examples of life for students, for that reason teachers must act in the correct way.

The correct way to act in front of students is practicing the seven grown-up skills, if we want to have a healthy relationship with our students, in order that we cannot act as old people, or we cannot act as teenagers.

The seven grown-up skills are:

1. Self-Awareness

2. Self-Control/Self-Mastery

3. Good Judgment

4. The Ability to Deal with Conflict

5. Self-Transcendence, or the Ability to Get Over Yourself

6. The Ability to Maintain Boundaries

7. The Capacity for Life-Long Learning

This is a good tool to keep a good relationship with our students, but we must remember that nobody is perfect and no one practices the grown-up skills perfectly every day. But the secret is: we all must think about our behavior with our students, and the seven grown-up skills help us to clarify our responsibilities in this important aspect of our work with teenagers.

Every teacher must practice grown-up skills, in order to have a good relationship with students, but this is not easy and nor does grown-up behavior come naturally, it has to be learned and practice.