Some key factors in successful learning!

 

As teachers, we must always remember that the classroom provides a comfortable learning environment. Some key factors in successful learning are feeling confident, carrying a positive attitude and having high self-esteem. As such after designing these activities for my class considering their language learning needs,  I feel that our learners must always be given an effective integrated approach in the classroom and it is essential to provide a rich language environment. The four activities that I designed based on the four skills basically demonstrate a good language model and involve a lot of opportunities for interactive skills. As teachers, if we do integrate these types of activities or games during Reading and Writing sessions then definitely our ELL’s would benefit as there will be lots of opportunities to talk to their partners, ask questions, respond, participate, write, learn, create and share. Another thing I have discovered is that learners do not show any kind of stress when working in pairs and small groups. I have also noticed that those same learners in normal classes stay very quiet and reserved but whenever I have introduced one of these activities the children seem to be very enthusiastic. ‘Barrier Games’ and ‘Say it’ I have designed it for the first time and most probably I will use these activities after my guided reading session. Or probably in the last block whereby they can have some good fun times interacting with their pairs and at the same time enhancing their language learning ability. According to the English Language Learning Progressions, my learners are making some good progress in all four skills. Furthermore, I have also noticed that some children in my class are reluctant to ask for clarification. As a qualified TESOL teacher, I will always practice collaborative learning in my classroom that allows children to interact and listen to each other's ideas freely and will definitely create a lot of opportunities to integrate these four skills in my class so that L1 learners feel more confident.