Review: Excellent Resource
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2014
This is an excellent resource. It is full of useful content for new and experienced teachers. The book relates teaching in Chile to teaching in any country in the world. Education in Chile, is going through change right now, and this author takes a multilayered look at some of the issues affecting teaching in general, and teaching English. It is an excellent resource, very informative. The Top Ten Themes in this book are:1. Teacher competency2. What is a "good" teacher?3. Too sexy to teach? Behaviour away from work4. PPP: Methodology for student engagement5. The Native Speaker Fallacy (Why knowing English does not mean you can automatically teach English without teacher training)6. A Native Speaker Case Study (Real world Case Study)7. What is a "bad" teacher? (It's not a movie!8. Identifying good teachers (and hiring them)9. Defining Teacher Quality10. The Power of Teacher Teams (What Harvard says)11. Finally, we put it all together, a synthesis: Being A Teacher in Chile...