Veronika's Teaching World
Practise what you preach...
Teaching with a Heart ❤
Teacher. Trainer. Dancer.
Welcome to my world!
THE LEXICAL APPROACH
Traditional scholastic and well-known modern approaches are being questioned daily as to their practicality, the needs and learning styles of the new age students. With this demand a lot of new ways have appeared. How can we enhance, update and upgrade our teaching methods?
How is it possible to maximise the output of our students, help them develop their language level at a faster pace and make them more autonomous learners?
Is there a solution to expanding their passive and active vocabulary more productively in order to communicate freely using examples of natural real-life English?
The answer to all of the questions above is the Lexical Approach. In my sessions we will look into the history of the approach, how it developed throughout the years, how it can be applied to your teaching context and why it is growing in popularity.
Teaching online
I am not going to lie, I am a proponent of face to face communication and energy exchange in the real life mode. Nothing could possibly induce me to switch to impersonal online teaching, or so I thought. However, here I am... Having switched to online teaching I realised the obvious perks, the main ones being:
TIME-MANAGEMENT
It's no secret that online classes allow for more flexibility in terms of time. If we take commuting out of the equation, online mode actually helps you save precious time for a lot more important things, like 'yourself', for instance =)
With the majority of students lateness stops being an issue.
One more peculiar fact: you actually become more self-organised. Perhaps with the constant reminder of the time that has passed on ZOOM or with all the digital tools forcing your brain to function in a more computer-like efficient manner your KPIs improve in the most unexpected of ways. Magic, isn't it?
FREEDOM
What if I told you that you could be doing whatever you love in any location of your choice? Be it your favourite cafe or in the comfort of your home or stepping outside of your comfort zone in the wilderness of Peru? This is the freedom we acquire when we switch to online teaching/learning. The onus is on us to choose our 'happy place', preferable hours and the amount of time we are ready to spend on learning. Anywhere. Everywhere. Anytime.
ONLINE TOOLS
All of the technological wonders below have made my life so much easier and more environmentally friendly by the way (no paper/plastic waste and all that)
Zoom - an app for online conferencing with multiple useful options: breakout rooms for pairwork and group work, whiteboard, chat, screen sharing. Zoom has proven to be the most stable one from the product range (subjective opinion, agreed)
E-books - some people prefer paper ones, I do not insist. But with modern editing apps there's virtually no need for those.
ONLINE TOOLS
Google classroom - one love <3. All the materials stored, uploaded, shared among the students and the teacher with one click of a button. Online creation, collaboration, file editing in the real time by multiple users. All of this makes good old paper worksheets and writing on paper look ridiculously outdated.
Presentation Plus DVDs - these are interactive e-coursebooks with self-checking options, inbuilt answers, audio files, scripts and lots of other life-saving tools included. This was my 'point of no return' from online teaching...
Of course this list is incomplete and we use a lot more than that, like Miro, Quizlet, brain training apps. Welcome to the Brave New World!
