Teacher

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Teachers belief system and decision making
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• Lan Weihong

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Objectives

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Stage 1 Experience

• Complete this sentence
• 1. Teachers are
• 2. Pupils are

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• Suppose you are going to teach the following
  contents, what would you do?
• Word bee, butterfly, flower
• Sentence I am... , I can

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Stage 2 Exploration

• 1. Why do you plan to teach the contents that
  way?
• 2. Read the following case and think why the
  teach deal with the teaching material the way he
  /she does.

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  flower? ?3??????????????,???????????????????????,?
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• ?bee ,butterfly ?flower ?????,????????????????????
  ??????????,?????Im thirsty. / Can I share the
  water, please? ???????????????????????,?????????
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• ??????13????????(? bird, cat, dog, tiger,
  )?10????(?beautiful, nice, pretty, strong,
  short, tall, thin, ugly) ????? I am / I
  can/ I want / Can I have some , please?
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• ?? 1 ??? (Im a bee)
• ????????????? Im a bee. Im pretty. I can fly.

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?? 2?? Bumblebee (???)

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• A bumblebee is in the barn. (???????)
• Carrying his /her dinner under his arm. (??????)
  
• Buzzzzzzzz(????????)
• Boom! (????????????????????????,?????????????????
  )
• Im a bumblebee. Im beautiful. I can fly.
  (?????????,????,????????

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thirsty ???

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• Im a red / yellow/ pink / blue flower.
  Im thirsty.

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Stage 2 Exploration and exchange

• 1. If you were pupils, what learning activities
  would be more appealing to you? Why?
• 2. What guides the teacher on choosing
  instructional approaches, strategies, methods and
  techniques?
• 3. What do you think the teacher believe when
  she made the decision of teaching the words and
  sentences that way?

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• 4. What does a teachers beliefs system include?
• 5. Why does it influence the teachers decision
  making so much?

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Stage 3 Exchange

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• Teachers belief systems are founded on the
  goals, values, and beliefs they hold in relation
  to the content and process of teaching, and their
  understanding of the systems in which they work
  and their roles within it. These beliefs and
  values serve as the background to much of their
  decision making and action, and hence constitute
  what has been termed the culture of teaching (
  Richards and Lockhart 1994)

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  ???Willialn?Burden(199756)??,???????????????????
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  ????????????? (???,2005)

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• Teachers belief systems are stable sources of
  reference, are built up gradually over time, and
  relate to such dimensions of teaching as the
  teachers theory of language, the nature of
  language teaching, the role of the teacher,
  effective teaching practices, and teacher-student
  relations. (K.E. Johnson 1992a)

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• What teachers do is a reflection of what they
  know and believe. The teachers knowledge and
  teaching thinking provide the underlying
  framework (????) or schema (??) which guides the
  teachers classroom action.

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• At every points in the lesson the teacher has
  options. To say one thing or to say something
  different. To stop an activity or to let it
  continue for a few more minutes. To take three
  minutes to deal with a difficult question or to
  move on with what you had previously planned. To
  tell off a latecomer or to welcome him. To do
  something or to do nothing. These options
  continue throughout the lesson at every step
  your decision will take you forward on your
  particular route.

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• There is no single correct answer, no single
  route through a lesson ---- though some routes
  may in the end prove to be much more effective
  than others. Different people or different
  situations create different solutions. Your total
  lesson is created by your choices. (Jim
  Scrivener, 2002 9)

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Stage 4 Extension

• 1. How can we construct and reconstruct our
  belief systems so that our decision making in
  English classroom in primary school will be more
  reasonable and effective?
• 2. What makes a good primary school English
  teacher?

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Ms Lan Viewpoints

• Learn to learn theories of teaching, learning,
  foreign language teaching and learning.
• Learn to improve teaching and learning by
  practising and reflecting.
• Learn to develop by doing research.

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  ??????,???????????????????????,???????????????????
  ?????? (???, 2007)

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• ?????????,??,??,?????????????,???????,????????????
  ???????????(Oukada, 2000)????????????,????????????
  ,????????????,???????,??????????????(Richards
  Nunan,1990)?

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• ?????????????????????????????????,????????????????
  ????????????????,??????????,???????????? (???,
  2007)?

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• How do you interpret the following?
• 1. Pupiles as langguage learners (?????????)
• 2. Pupils as a developing person (????????)
• 3. Teacher as learning facilitator
  (???????????)

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• Teacher as a decision maker (?????????
• Teacher as a researcher (???????)
• 6. Students and teachers as curriculum resourses
  (???????????)?

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Stage 5 Evaluation

• 1. Evaluate what have you learned from the
  above learning activities. One person, one
  sentence.
• 2. Discuss about your learning goals of this
  course.