Teaching English to Lower School Students!

Hi,

I know it is been a long time you don’t hear about me, but I have done some professional changes that maybe you would like. I am not teaching University students at the moment as I used before, I am trying to go deeper into Lower School now, due to, this is an issue I wanted to do since a long time ago.

So now on, most of the research I do will be regarding teaching English to Lower School students. I just started teaching English to Lower School students and it’s great to see how much and fast they learn by means of different strategies.

At the school I am teaching now, there are multicultural classroom, students from everywhere learning from each other and having fun at the same time, but it’s also very challenging for teachers when planning the lessons to take in mind each student’s difficulty and learning styles.

In Grade 2 class, for instance, I have to face with students who don’t have the same level of English. For example, sometimes you could find in the same class a student who is able to communicate perfectly but has many problems in writing, or another one who is very good at spelling but he is not fluently when speaking in English language.

Another issue is related to the way students learn and the kind of activities teachers should bring into class for helping them to acquire the language easily and motivated. I order to support this issue, the use of different printed materials and online resources have highly contributed to a better acquisition of the English language. So, these aspects among others have motivated me to start writing about how Primary English teachers could improve their lessons and make them more motivated and fun. So by means of my Blog I will show some Weekly Lesson Plans I have already used for teaching English to Lower School Students (Grade 2) with the resources included.

I will also post some materials Primary teachers could use for teaching English to their students. I will briefly mention in my Blog, my experience up to now, as an EAL (English as an Additional Language) teacher.

Also, I will post some comments related to In Class Support Activity (it is another activity I do in class, working together with the Mainstream teachers, giving support to EAL students).

Well, this is all for today! Hope the materials you find in the Blog related to this new area, helps you to improve your work at Primary level.

 I’d love so much, keeping in touch and get some feedback from you as well. I am sure; you have lots of good ideas and experiences to share not only with me but with the whole Primary English Teachers community.

XXX Yordanka