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Un taller de desarrollo profesional para docentes de inglés, realizado en conjunto con el programa SIT Best Practices in TESOL para docentes del sistema educativo publico del Ecuador
Planning time! I only have 2 hours for planning for 18 or 20 hours.
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DeleteAs teachers we have to spend many hours on planning and sometimes we don't get the results that we expect from our
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If the class does not work as I expected is important to consider the strategies how to develop the activities the biggest challenge could be to get the students interest
Deleteactivites not going the way you expected the best way the teacher have clear knowledge in the topics and the students undertand. Sometimes planning is enough time and the students not understand.
DeleteUggh! Two hours is NOT enough.
DeleteTo be succesfull as a teacher ,I cosider really important to select appropriate activities to apply in the classroom , there is always the chance to modify what we expect at the of the lesson , so we should include relevant topics as well as meaningful ones so I prefer to plan based on what my students are good at , Simplifyng their tasks and giving clear directions to fulfill the tasks , the bigger challenge will be deleted of our minds when we dedicate passion to our work as educators
DeleteI think, the teacher sholud have to select student practice activities to create a simple and effetive plan for a lesson. and so they don't waste time to plan for hours. the most important point is that TEACHERS AND STUDENTS fell comfortable in class.
ReplyDeleteI agrre with you, when we organize activities is better, and it is more challenging for me to work in planning, because we have to organize the activities and think how can we do to have better results, in that case when we are in classes it will be easier to apply the different activities. It is hard at the beginning
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Totally agree with you about planning Activities and thinking about students being comfortable in class. In my opinion the BIGGEST CHALLENGE is the hours we teachers have for teaching 3 hours a week are not enough. We ned at least 2 periods a day.
DeletePlanning time is a challenge, not only the effort we do in planning our next class for our students, but also the required documents that the Ministry of Education demands. This takes much more time, including our "resting time" at home, which isn't true. We are up until late, to wake up very early the next day, just to accomplish certain requirements.
ReplyDeleteHola , para este desafío ,realizar la planificación de acuerdo al tiempo q se utilizaría en clase .
ReplyDeleteEn las planificaciones, el tiempo
ReplyDeleteI can say that the bigger challenge is that activities not going in the way I expected. I feel unmotivated and I tryied to analyze what was wrong or what I can change for next time.
ReplyDeletePlanning the activities not going the way the expected. Take into acount the geographic situation. In this place don´t have the material much less as books. the studens try to learn with the help of teacher. the time isn´t a problem. I think that the Ministery of Education must include topic acord each country with the reality.
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ReplyDeleteThe bigger challenge is planning time according to student's needs because, as we know crowded classrooms don't let to develop productive skills in just 40 minutes.
I agree with you, there are some topics that they are dificult to explain them, because I think they are not according to the ages of the students.
DeleteTime consumption when planning, specially if we don't have enough hours to do it. Teachers must have a plan b, c, d, ..., z just in case something happens in their classes.
ReplyDeletePlanning the activities not going the way the expected. In this place the students don´t have books, and the teacher make the necesary fr the students learn.the time isn´t a problem. I think that the Ministery of Education must include topics acord each country and place.
ReplyDeleteI think planning time is the worst. It takes me a lot of time doing it. I would like to use that time looking for some nice activities or materials
ReplyDeleteI think, the bigger challenge is planning time because I work with students with special needs and large classrooms, The planning is according with students´ needs so it is difficult to develop their skills even more speaking.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion planning time because sometimes there are unexpected situations such as meetings, sports, and we have to re plan the activities
ReplyDeleteI agree with my colleagues, time to planning is so bored, but it is necessary to have an effective class. We need to select the activities taking in mind our students' needs. Sometimes the planned activities don't go the way we expected for many reasons. Firstly by the institutions' needs, or by the obligatory curriculum, or in our case becasuse we don't have the material to work.
ReplyDeleteFor me, planning time is a bigger challenge. It always takes me a lot to plan a unit. I really like to use ICT in my lessons, so searching for free and useful new tech tools or free educational apps to adapt for my students always take time. Sometimes I use a blended environment and my students learn both English and tech, and they really like it. And of course that also take a lot of time.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, planning Time is a bigger challenge. I have to work with 35 students and with students special needs, who requires for me to teach them face to face, one by one. So while I am teaching and helping these students, the other ones must work in groups but I cannot supervise to all of them.
ReplyDeleteI try that my students love english planning funny and creative activities but I don't have a classroom to decorate with english staff ,no internet ,no projector .I planned a roll play but parents don't like spend money in costumes.I got in roll with neflix so few students can watch a movie in english using my smart phone and my lapto .No resources is the hardest part to plan.
ReplyDeleteThanks Valeria- Lack of resources is a huge barrier, isn't it?
DeleteHi, for me planning is not a really big challenge because my team work together and we create a common syllabus and unit plans. Besides, lesson plans are guide by our books, teachers resources and platform. We prepare our classes before the academic cycle starts. That's why it is not really complicated. On the other hand, whenever the things don't go in the way I expected, it's not a problem. For me, it's an oportunity to learn from my students. Also, as a teacher I am in the possition to conduct the class to the original plan.
ReplyDeleteI would say activities not going as planned has been my greatest difficulty. I think it's ideal to plan several activities so you'll have something that can replace the activity gone wrong. Of course that route (planning more activities) takes more time, but it's totally worth it and also if you're careful about your planning you can come up with general activities that can be used several times (thus saving time in future planning sessions).
ReplyDeleteThe requirement of the Ministry of Education that requires planning on paper, which leads teachers to take our time at home, and only to meet system requirements. We are able to generate a simple and flexible planning which is more projected to the needs of the students rather than the needs of the ministry. It is for this reason that for me time planning is a challenge when it comes to classes.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion planning time because sometimes there are unexpected situations such as meetings, sports, and we have to re plan the activities.
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view, the most difficult is the planning time because many times there is not enough time to accomplish what has been planned.
ReplyDeleteI think the planning time is a real challenge for every teacher for different reasons . In my case, I teach English in 6 courses, in each course there are almost 45 or 50 students, at least 5 of them with special needs. I love teaching so I try to plan according the reality of my students but it takes a lot of time. Sometimes I can't teach what I planned because we have any activity in the playground like open houses, or fairs of the different subjects so I have to modified my planning again.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, planning time is a bigger challenge because it requires no interruptions during classes and the ability to work with a limited number of students as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree with some of you, planning some activities for accomplishing are not the best way to help to the students, sometimes the student´´s behavior is not a positive factor for developing the different skills.
ReplyDeleteI think planninig is an important way to teaching. It makes easy. And some activities doesnt expected me. I dont feel bad. It help me to decide the best option for my students.
ReplyDeleteIn my personal opinion to be honest planning time because sometimes there are unexpected situations such as meetings, sports, and we have to re plan the activities or only send the homework.
ReplyDeleteI think as a teacher we choose the best for our students, but they do not put too much interest in the cllas a I feel a little bit disappointment
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the bigger challenge is that activities not going in the way I expected. Sometimes I feel demotivated because students dono not give the importance that learn English has
ReplyDeleteCreo que lo mas importante de la planificación es insertar en ella actividades ludicas dependiendo del tema donde ellos le cojan gusto al aprendizaje del ingles y ademas tomando en cuenta el tiempo que tenemos para trabajar con ellos
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the bigger challenge is when I expect some results and these are completely different. You know, we usually outline some activities in a defined time and we expect to accomplish them strictly. However, the most of time this is unreal because we are working with human beings, who have different opinions, perceptions and abilities.
ReplyDeleteMi apinion es que me falta el tiempo ya que en la planificación esta lo que vamos a trabajar pero en la realidad es diferente hay estudiantes que captan rápido y otro estudiantes que no lo hacen
ReplyDeleteFor me the bigger challenge is planning time because we have crowded classrooms with 40 or more students and they need to practice for developing their skills.
ReplyDeleteSort of both, planning time is difficult when you have to work with 5 groups of 30 students a day and the low level of English and even student's attitude hinders the successful of your goals although you select the most significat, funny and easy activities you cannot accomplish your goals without your student's help.
ReplyDeleteI believe our bigger challenge as teachers at the beginning of every school year is start to test what activities are going to worrk successfully with our students and which not. In this process planning time can become exausting because we work with heterogeneous groups which means not all the strategies are going to run in the same way with all the pupils. But our mission as educators is to find the best resources to our students can become successful producing English Language as much they can in every class. when we get that our labor will be a little bit less tired because we have studied our groups of students previously and we will know what activities are they going to enjoy more than others, in that way they will feel encourage to use the English language.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is very importan to practice
ReplyDeleteBoth are challenging, because we have to measure the time to give the explanation, and in turn see an activity according to the needs of the students.
ReplyDeleteI think that the major challenge is that the activities not going the way expected. You can plan wonderful activities to make your students participate in the language learning process but the fact is that the majority of the time, you can not follow all the steps that you planned before for the simple reason that we don't manage how students react to new challenges in the learning process. Sometimes they can feel involved with the activities that teachers plan but not always, it's for that reason that teachers react to students' expectations in the daily classes and avoid following the whole planning.
ReplyDeleteIf teachers plan well, things almost always will be as expected, so what we need is enough time for planning.
ReplyDeleteBoth are challenging, not only the effort we put in planning for our next class but the other activities the institution demands. We didn't have much time to grade the activities so we took those at home, which isn't fair. We also have to complete the programe schedue just to accomplish certain requirements, even though the students had been absent for some other university duties.
ReplyDeleteThe bigger challenge is planning time, because we have to plan according to our group of students needs and the requirements of school authorities, but it is very important that we plan simple activities focused in the students needs.
ReplyDeleteI think the same form of you, planning some activities for accomplishing are not the best way to help to the students, sometimes the student´´s behavior is not a positive and they don't want to learn the lenguage.
ReplyDeleteThe panning is a good tool to organize our class but the government requires a lot of it. It distracts us in the important key which is to handle real resources and activities to target the learning objectives. Sometimes a lot of planning doesn't fit in the class as we expected.
ReplyDeleteBoth of them. I really spend much time trying to look for meaningful activities to make Ss practice the topic they are learning, obviously through speaking. Finally, very often I feel the time we spent doing the activity was not enough, even we use more time I have planned. Students are more interested in the grade they get, so the cheat. I have told them that the objective is learning, not cheating. They use their mother language when I do not see them. It is frustrating.
ReplyDeleteMy big challenge is to figure out another effective way to make my lesson works. It specially happens to me when I make group work.
ReplyDeleteThe challenge is to make the planning time coincide with the class time, the teacher spends a lot of time planning the class, but generally we only have forty or forty five minutes to apply it and sometimes these few minutes are dedicated to receiving and review tasks or other unexpected activities
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion is the planning time because we are going to work on but in reality it is different, there are unexpected situations such as: sports, meetings, seminars and we can not go on with the activities of the planning.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, you should work with the books of the cradle project, they help a lot in the understanding of English and it is not the time, it is the ministry that should plan according to the reality of each country.
ReplyDeleteIn my personal opinion the most challenge isplanning time because we have only 30-35 minutes (real time) . Also we need time to organize the class, send homeworks, etc.
ReplyDeleteEn las planificaciones, el tiempo es el gran desafía, pues en difícil coordinar este aspecto en clases.
ReplyDeleteI think the most biggest challenge is the planning time, because the time it is not sometimes enough to accomplish with the purspose planned. Besides, it would be easy for us to move other topic, but that is not the aim. However, it is vital to remind that the plans may be adaptavive and it may be adjustable to students' needs and even the time.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher I know that the biggest challenge is the planning of activities, the students do not have texts, my opinion would be that the MINISTRY OF EDUCATION tries to put topics that are according to the country and place where they live, I try as a teacher to teachs through videos that I download to my laptop, so the students are interested in their learning.
ReplyDeleteAs you we know, we always work under pressure, there are a lot of things at the same time, and we have to plan the activities in the best way, in order to get students like what they are doing and learning, but sometimes unexpected things happen, and it doesnn't depend on us!
ReplyDeleteYo creo que para todo maestro ,el desafío más grande es el tiempo, ahí está la habilidad del docente,como organiza sus actividades, para hacerse entender bien en el poco tiempo posible,ser maestro es ser un artista de vocación.si no cuenta con todas las posibilidades las crea y se las ingenia.
ReplyDeleteFrom my perspective, I face seriously challenges when I want to carry on my planned activities in my classrooms. The main reason is that administrators in the Language Department asks permanently to accomplish the official syllabus for the students' "benefits" which is entirely based on a commercial textbook,. If I applied other activities based on my creativity and personal criteria, students and administrators would complain about why to have bought a textbook. In reality, it becomes a straitjacket. For sure, administrators say to be flexible with the official syllabus; but at the end of the semester, students and administrators evaluate the teacher negatively by marking the teacher did not fulfill the textbook as it was planned previously. Unfortunately, every class is registered in a computerized system. Later on, if I consider some extra activities, I will be out of time to achieve the official planning, and the extra activities will not match the additional activities. On other words, one thing is what administrators preach, another what they do.
ReplyDeleteMi mayor desafio creo que es planificar el tiempo ya que durante la hora clase pueden surgir muchas situaciones diversas a las cuales debemos atender con la finalidad de que los estudiantes no queden con vacios sobre el tema.
ReplyDeleteFor me, a bigger challenge is when activities not going the way I expected because of the different learning styles. Our classroom reality is hard when you have different language levels with different ways to learn. So, I seek out sources that refer to student´s preferences to connect the way they understand and apply their learning. It is also important to consider activities to some students with special needs to respond a teaching inclusively.
ReplyDeleteI think the bigger challenge are activities due to, in the classroom we as professors can find students with different background knowledge and with different learning styles, in order to satisfy their learning needs professors have to use correct methods, techniques and strategies to teach them.
DeleteThe bigger challenge is planning time...because there are many information to students and different levels in the same classroom...then i have to plann according this situation for me the time is short to teach many topics ...without count NEE
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's planning time because we need to think about different activities that are understandable and simple for students.
ReplyDeleteI can say that the biggest challenge is planning the activities when you don't have the resources needed to reach students on a specific topic.
ReplyDeleteAlso we know that the teacher work under pressure each student is different.
I think that the most important thing is the planning of activities since if these are effective the students will understand the message.
ReplyDeleteHi everybody, for me planning isn't bigger challenge, because is easy to write and write. The real challenge is do that this plan get into a reality for most of the students. Nowadays public schools have classes with 40 students, in my case I work with 43, and each class has different way of learning, without mention NEE.
ReplyDeleteYes, of course it is frustrating to schedule activities and they do not work because you invest time, creativity and money preparing materials.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the biggest challenge is planning time. As everyone knows, times at schools change a lot and most of the time we are filling papers and more papers and those are not related to English. We have to submit grades to the platform, we have 30 hours, we have to attend parents, etc. Even act as a father or mother if you are a tutor guide. So, in the end, We don't have time to plan a lot and also we do not have enough resources great things. Nevertheless, I am sure that we try the best in every class. This information is very valuable to improve our teaching strategies.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, when the lesson that you carefully planned goes down the drain, sometimes due to unforeseen circumstances? it takes a lot of effort to put it back on track again, you have to use every trick on the book, And sometimes even that is not enough...
ReplyDeleteFor me, Planning Time is a challenge because I have the opportunity to improve and create confortable class for my children.
ReplyDeleteA bigger challenge for me as a teacher it is activities not going the way I expected. It is frustrated. Even I plan sometimes students don´t bring materials or time is not enough.
ReplyDeleteI think that the biggest challenge is the planning time because many times there is not enough time to accomplish what has been planned in the other hand in this year our students do not have books to work of a the better way with them.
ReplyDeleteI think that the changage is planning time because We have the oportunity to organize and plan interesting topics so prepare an excellent class
ReplyDeletefor me the activities,Because I feel frustrated
ReplyDeleteThe bigger challenge is planning. We have classrooms with more than 30 students including students with special needs, so we have to plan according to the students needs and that takes a lot of my time and we only have 40 minutes to develop the plan.
ReplyDeleteThe bigger challenge is planning, the time according to student's needs isn't enough to teach, besides the crowded classrooms don't let to develop activities productives skills.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I consider planning is a real challenge, not just because of the time it takes but all the documetation it requieres. Also, we have different classes with different connotations so plans need to be adaptable to every different group which makes not an easy task.
ReplyDeleteI think that planning times is a challenge,it takes me a lot of time doing it.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the biggest challenge is planning time, because there is not enough time to achieve what has been planned because I work with some grades and I do not have enough teaching tools
ReplyDeleteI may say, both are a big challenge. However, when the activities planned don't go like expected can be frustrating. It gives the idea of taking consideration about the group we are working with, since maybe the same activity might work for one group, but not to the other. At that point, I would need more time planning the proper activities, with the same topic but different groups of students.
ReplyDeleteI think that biggest challenge are the activities nor going the way I expected because They aren´t according to the reality to the students. Nevertheless some topics shoul be change.
ReplyDeleteI think that both of them are the biggest challenges because we plan and incluye activities to apply to during the learning process but many times the se activities not going the way we expected because the students do not consider English as essential language, but whe this happen we always try to see the way to motivarte and changes other activities in our plans until to get good results
ReplyDeleteHello, I totally agree even we could practice our class at home as we are at the day of class.
ReplyDeleteThe planning time is bigger challenge than activities because teachers are so creative and can do many different things for developing the class and knowledge in a good way but there are some templates enforce by different authorities and Ministerio de Eduacacion so we can not change according our students' necessities.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think that it depends on the group of the students which it has to work, not all have the same attitude and behavior to acquire the knowledge (we know that) and teachers have to take into consideration this detail at the moment they are doing the planning, I have understood that, and I try to pay attention in the planning time to finish in the correct moment or to stop in a special part to continue the next class.
ReplyDeleteFor me its a bigger challenge planning time, because teachers must first think about the level of knowledge of the students, they have to think in things that interest to the students and in this way the teachers can focus the new subject to be taught. It is important for the teachers how to teach the new topic and in the skills and attitudes that students have in the learning time in the classroom. The teacher should provide practice materials and reinforcement of the given topic too.
ReplyDeleteThe planning time because two hour a day isn't enough
ReplyDeletePlanning is not a big deal, because I can have a simple format to do, In fact I considered planning is the most important tool for teaching, however we have to follow filling or adapting the plans from the Institutions according their formats, and some times is not realistic, as teachers we know how is the group of our students, sometimes we elaborate the perfect plan but, other is the reality in class...
ReplyDeleteConsidero que el tiempo, porque en algunas ocasiones se terminó el tiempo pero quedaron dudas y más dudas en los estudiantes.
ReplyDeleteI consider planning.
ReplyDeleteCommon planning time is considered to be a form of professional development, since its primary purpose is to bring teachers together to learn from one another and collaborate on projects that will lead to improvements in lesson quality, instructional effectiveness, and student achievement.
I think it´s a bigger challenge is Planning time, because teachers must think in the level of each students for develop their skills or knowledge into the class. Teachers can search for new materials for that students understand and interest for the subject.
ReplyDeleteStudents know our group of students that not interest in the class.
Maydi Hermosa: I think that all of this depends on our own personalities. For instance, in my case I usually have a harder time when planning. As I am a very expressive and creative person usually I come up with good ideas just in the moment we are in the classroom, at that moment I think or feel that what I recently came up is much better than what is written on paper. So, planning was almost a waste of time! :)
ReplyDeletePues creo que las actividades no nos salen bien no es por una mala planificación sino porque previamente no visualizamos las necesidades del grupo, es importante recordar que cada grupo es diferente.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion planning time, because we do it thinking about 40 students or more in a class, different learning levels, multiple intelligences, special needs students, lack of interest, lack of didactic resources and technology
ReplyDeleteThe time we take to plan is a challenge because we must balance the different learning needs of our students.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinión planning time, because Teachers spend a lot of time doing it, and sometimes there are any unexpected situación, and Teacher cannot do theit bit with efficiency
ReplyDeleteThe most biggest challenge for me is to plan activities, we have different courses with different students in each one. So we need extra time to plan our activities every day. However, if we always take a little time to think and plan the class, it will be easier and funnier to teach, also the students can learn and participate each other all the time.
ReplyDeleteIn my personal opinion, planning time is a bigger challenge. Because must of the time it is not according to our studente reality.
ReplyDeletePlanning must be according students needs and as you know we as a teachers do not have to much time during a period of class.
By the way, planning is our biggest aim as teacher because it depends on my challenge.So I need to find out all the strategies to reach our goal and students' succeed during class.Along my experience working on IB program I should have to get involved in many activities with them , to take part and become a guider in order to be successful and not to feel embarrased when something doesn't work as I have planned.I think we need to put in students' shoes and look their reality to present the situation and students react successfully mixing different activities so that they can't get bored instead of that, they can be fun and enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteEl maestro debe seleccionar las actividades de práctica de los estudiantes , para crear un plan simple y efectivo para una lección. y así no pierden el tiempo para planificar durante horas, así debe ser de una manera más práctica para que sea más productiva
ReplyDeleteI think that the challenge is the methodology of teach to give prudential time to student, interactive togheter, and teacher with many simple resources.
ReplyDeleteFor me the bigger chellenge is that activities not going in the way I expected. This is because each group is different. For example, some activities work in a particular group and sometimes it does not work in the way I expected.
ReplyDeleteI think activities not going in the way I expected is a bigger challenge than planning, because sometimes we spend time planning and we think that certain activities are going to work with our students, but when you apply them don't work as you expected, and then you have to evaluate yourself and make a reflection for knowing why the activity didn't work, and for improving the next time you teach that topic.
ReplyDeleteI thing somerimes this is a little difficult because there are different types of students but we have to do this. I am RAUL RODRIGUEZ from Ecuador (Quevedo).
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ReplyDeleteI care about whether my students are actively involved in my class and interested in the content. Engagement is more important for me. I enjoy trying and using a variety of active learning strategies to attract my students interest and excitement even though it means to apply effort and risk
ReplyDeleteI believe the planning is a teacher guide for what students need to learn, how it will be taught, and how learning will be measured.
ReplyDeleteOrganize our Time for planning is crucial because it determines the success of our classes however, we are overloaded of extra work that involves parents appointments, week reports for DECE , writing many other documents that our authorites ask to do..so it is a little difficult to cope with all at the same time.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the reality of some of us. I can say that planning is the bigger challenge because it takes so much extra time to do it. And it is often challenging because the institutions require you to do it as quickly as possible. However, it does not mean that activities not going the way you expected is not a challenge too. Sometimes you have to challenge yourself to plan in just few minutes because of that.
ReplyDeleteDespite planning is important it is also a big challenge the planning time, because the woking hours involve a lot of activities and responsabilities as teachers, so there is no much time left.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion planning the activities not going the way I expected. We should find the best alternatives ,strategies according to students needs and to create an effective plan reflecting the solutions,using the neccesary resources that take interest to English class.
ReplyDeleteEl mayor desafìo es que las actividades no vayan como esperaba.
ReplyDeleteWhen planning, you have to adapt the activities with the estimated class time in each class hour, prioritizing the basic concepts of the English language so that the class does not become boring and arouse interest in the student.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the most challenging is planning, first because I teach in high level classes, and as every Teacher must do, we are required to complete a syllabus. Second, we generally teach 30 to 40 HOURS a week, so this doesn't really let any time left for planning "wonderful strategies.
ReplyDeleteOur effective actuvities should ve well planned, but it does not mean that we must apply a lot of time. That means we need planning just the simplest and easiest activities for EFL acquisition.
ReplyDeleteFor me, activities are not going the way I expected. Most of the time it happens. Because each activity has time and some students take time to understand what the have to do or the activities don't catch their attention.
ReplyDeletePlanning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desidered goal. It is the first and foremost activity to achieve desidered result.
ReplyDeleteHello! I am Maria, I think that the biggest challenge is planning the time and the activity goes as I expected. I prepare an activity to cut, paste and make sentences applying the conjugation of verbs known by the students, it is very good to work with pictograms because it develops linguistic skills indirectly identifying the globalized reading process and facilitates the expression of the student, finally it helps them to structure messages in English.
ReplyDeleteActivites not going the way I expected, Because I can write delight in my plannings if not getting to my students with the significant learning it is lost time.
ReplyDeletePlanninng for class it take a lot of hours It's made that all teachers waste more time planninng that preparing the class hours and when students receive instructions the scenary is different.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest challenge is planning time according to the needs of the student, since we have to work with classrooms of 36 students each with different needs, they do not allow the development of productive skills in one class hour.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher I feel it is to plan activities because not all students do not adapt to the strategies necessary to meet the requirements of the activity
ReplyDeleteThat is a common situation that happens in our class. I think that a big challenge is when activities are not going the way I expected, because that means that I have to be very creative to think of a new technique or methodology in order to get the goals I did before starting the class
ReplyDeleteI think that I got enough time for plannig but sometimes lessons are not going the way I expect. It has been hard for my students to understand instructions because they are not used to understand them by modeling or demonstarting the activities.
ReplyDeleteHi... I think that is very important to plan the class... because we need to create the material and the skill that we are going to use.... but it is not enought....
ReplyDeleteHi! thanks for another nice question, As a teacher your basic to the class is your plannification , A teacher without plannings for his students is like a farmer going to the farm without a cutlass he cant weed or sow so planning is very important which we shouldnt be lazy to do it although its difficult to define, think and shar. On the other note of teachers not getting what we are expected from students is once a disease which one cant cure it for just a day it needs a lot of time and a process so the best way as teachers is to be more focus teaching from unknown to known and with time we could reap what we sow
ReplyDeleteI think is planning because you are overcoming in things can happen with the activities or not
ReplyDeleteIt is vital to plan each class, but unfortunately, we have some difficulties in the classroom. For example there are 40 students, in addition we have students with educative needs, so that sometimes we can not work according yo the plan
ReplyDeleteHi everyone, a bigger challenge for me is planning. I mean if I want to work with students in different way, I have to focus in planning. A good planning allows to complete all the activities in the classroom. Of course it takes time to plan effectively but it is our rol as teacher, we have to select the activities and engage students to involve in activities. So planning is very important and it is a great challenge for me because I have to be creative to allow students participation.
ReplyDeleteI consider the main thing is planning because I like organizing every detail for my class. Besides, I prefer looking for different activities in advance in class to promote the students participation all the time. It is my role as teacher.
ReplyDeleteThe planning time is the biggest challengue due that we as teachers have a lot of activities to perform, we have to attend the different things that the Ministry of education,DECE and the authorities of the institution require us, in a classroom we have between 30 and 40 students, in some cases are students with disability and special needs, our plan has to be different for them. Also we have to attend parents every day, we have to give reinforcement extra classes for students that have low scores but happens that the majority of this students don' make the tasks, don' study because they don' want, but for the Ministry of education we have the blame and we have to visit them at their houses, and all of this activities we have to prepare at home in our resting time and also at weekends. If we have less demanding avtivities, we could improve in our teaching.
ReplyDeleteSometimes what you have planned is not applied into classroom because when you are gonna give a feedback to your students with regard to the previous class you noticed that it is not possible to cintinue with the new class due to the most of them did not understood the last one. Then you have to take 45 minutes to repeat again the previous. Finally, planning is the biggest challenge for me.
ReplyDeleteLaura Tapia. The best challenge is planning time because it give us the opportunity to work with students using strategies and activities according to our real.life and enjoy this class.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the bigger challenge is the planning time becuase it´s kind of difficult to integrate communicative activities when the students level is not so high and apart from that they don´t want to make an effort to learn and practice English
ReplyDeleteA bigger challenge I have to face is planning time about activites that will be devepoped for an effective Teaching- learning process.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the bigger challenge is the panning time because it helps us to develop in a correct way how use all the skills in the classroom and work better with our students,
ReplyDeleteI believe that they are both a challenge because as teachers must plan according the time that is, 2 hours per week as well as some activities that they fancy paying attention some skills that we need to back up in each class.
ReplyDeleteIt`s challenging to plan my lessons because I have to consider the time that I have for that, so it`s important to analyze my students learning styles in order to plan the activities that I`m going to develop with them including students with special needs. Sometimes, when I can`t finish or apply all of the activities that I have planned I don’t feel bad because it helps me to choose or change the strategy that I am using for those activities and step by step I could have good results.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest challenge planning for me is time because I have many courses to teach; and sometimes materials we need. for example copies.
ReplyDeleteI always think that the plannig time is the best challenge to get way I expect, because I can have in my hands all the tools that need to wok in each class.
ReplyDeletefor me, the bigger challenge is planing time. As I told at the beginning of this workshop I work with Ib program and BGU classes. Therefore, on one hand I need to spend much time finding suitable activities, strategies, and materials for fulfilling an extended ib syllabus. and on the other hand, I need time planning lessons for big classes with some students with special needs. Furthermore, I need to fulfill another challenge that is loots of paperwork that the Institution demands. So, in my opinion, the planning time definitively is a bigger challenge.
ReplyDeleteMany times the activites not going the way you expected because the time is very short and the student don't like to work with pression by the time in the class .
ReplyDeleteBeing honest, for me planning time is the bigger challengue because as techers we must take account so many details at the moment of planning, wich takes a lot of time too.
ReplyDeleteAs teachers we must have planned all the activities and thus work with the indicated hours and not have any inconvenience
ReplyDeleteThe biggest challenge that I have to face is planning for students with especial needs because they need others plans according their grades of need and the activities that they also need.
ReplyDeleteFor me the biggest challenge is when the activities not going the way you expect than mean the hours you spend planning didn't work or maybe you don't know enough the group.
ReplyDeleteFor me it's both! But if I had to choose one or the other, I'd say that I struggle more with things not going the way I planned. That causes me to not want to plan elaborate activities.
ReplyDeleteI love planning and spending time preparing the lessons because I feel more involved and into the topic that I'm trying to teach. But how it goes over in the classroom is a toss-up.
I can say that the activities that we want for them it is very difficult that they practice becuase first they do not want , as a teachers we have to say that it is for some points to practice, also, they do not have a lot of knowledge to practice speaking
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the bigger challenge is activities not going the way we expected because activities could take much time that we planned, the activities weren't appropiate to acomplish the main objective or maybe, we did not take in count possible difficulties that we will have when developing the activities in class.
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ReplyDeleteIn my point of view, a bigger challenge English teachers face is planning time because of the amount of students we have in each class and also because when planning we spent a lot of time looking for resources and activities that can be helpful for students in order to make learning meaningful.
ReplyDeleteWell I am not sure, may be it is the planning time because in some school years I had more than three grades so in that case is necessary to do more than three plans and obviously it takes more time (I have to recognize that I get in troubles when I am planning becasue at the moment of setting the activities I do not know what kind of activities I have to choose and so on ). On the other hand is challenging the development of the activities as well because the students are not engaged, or may be the class is interrupted or simply I was not well prepared.
DeleteThe time to plan, sometimes the time is not enough and when you plan, not everything goes according to what we have already planned, sometimes we have to repeat several times a topic due to a little understanding of the student that sometimes means that some courses are advanced and that with others are delayed, it is necessary to see with what method we can reach the student, because in the classroom some will learn faster than others, while others will not even care about the class....
ReplyDeleteMw as a techer I make brief lesson plans in a copybook, the challenge is to plan according to individual differences, and we finish a partial and I begin thinking in the scores of the other partial, that's our big challenge, for one side our planning and for the other the quick grades.
ReplyDeleteI think that a big challenge is planning time because every student is different, we have to take into consideration the individual differences. Not every student learn in the same way. We need time to give extra help.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I think that it is time for planning since It is obligatory to present a lesson plan with all details but, in other countries it is a simple lesson plan. Ecuadorian teachers are rounded in the same themes so It must change in our country.
ReplyDeleteConsidero que la planificación, necesito ser creativa en diseñar diferentes planes para las diferentes clases con estrategias que permitan desarrollar habilidad en el estudiante.
ReplyDeletePlanning time, because when you have to accomplish a specific aim, you need to get the materials in advance and think the order you use then. However, even though we prepare lessons and activities, it doesn't mean that we are going to do as been planned. The curriculum, I think currently must be open to the context.
ReplyDeleteMany times we can plan a nice class, including diferent and new strategies but time is one of difficulties related to the number of students.
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ReplyDeletePlanning is a roadmap to the teacher’s success.
Whenever you make a plan, you know what you want to achieve. At the same time, it becomes clear what the future might hold and what your goals are. Your aims, which has been decided by planning, makes your decision making more effective and more ‘to the point’.
This is because you know that how a decision will affect your plan in the long term and whether or not, this decision will help you in achieving your goals. Thus it helps you make decisions faster.
In my opinion, a big challenge is planning time because every one students are different, Not all students learn in the same way. Them we need time to give help to all students.
ReplyDeleteBoth issues are a challenge planning; but, also when things didn´t go the way I expect.
ReplyDeleteIn my case, I have taken time for planning, selectiting materials and activities. However, I think, I haven´t taken much time about reflecting on the significant moments of the lesson to generate new ideas to overcome problems or situations that didn´t satisfy my expectations as teachers, or maybe situations that I think didn´t satisfy learner's expectations.
I think that one of the biggest challenges that teachers face is planning, we are used to planning only for covering grammar topics and not focusing in develop the other skills like speaking or listening, we need to have a change in the way that we plan.
ReplyDeleteI believe the planning should be with less content to prepare with games,puzzle, etc because we have students with specials need beside there are many activities like fairs, I reading... and we have enough time to finish the contents then is very important planning time and we can do the changes after.
ReplyDeleteI think it is planning time, and about that the things do not go in the way I expect I think is going to happen most of time because we are working with people not with machines, so every person is different and is going to react in a different way. That is why I consider planning time the biggest challenge because I need to plan considering my students' differences.
ReplyDeleteGood advice, a meaningful planning is very important and you notice that you make a good job as a teacher beacuse both parts feel comfortable and at the end of the class.
ReplyDeleteFor me the bigger challenge is planning time, because its importance stablishes in the need to organize in a coherent way what you want to achieve with the students in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteIn this case i think that the big challenge is to achieve each one of the goals of the class.
ReplyDeleteIt important prepare our activities that you use when you teach, I think you have better results in the teaching organize your ideas, prepare a dynamic class before to star the class. your students going to learn and improve the English language.
ReplyDeleteWhen planning it is very necessary and important to take into account several alternatives and not simply to limit a certain topic or certain activities because in the course of the day any situation can occur and as teachers you must be prepared for everything.
ReplyDeleteThere is not problem when you like to teach english or other subject, and if you select the perfect item for your students with the best didactic.
ReplyDeleteDesarrollar habilidades productivas en 40 minutos es muy difícil porque hay muchos estudiantes en cada clase
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the biggest challenge is planning activities and they do not do as I planned! Specially when it is a new group and I do not know the classroom behavior
ReplyDeleteAll activity must plan the time , only so, we might have gotten a bigger challenge. It´s worth it to mark that whole effort has a purpose.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the bigger challenge is "activites not going the way I expected". We spend time planning a lot of activities but in the classroom TIME isn't enough.
ReplyDeleteIn my point of view, the biggest challenge is the level of the students. In my case where I work the students from 1st, 2nd and 3rd of BGU do not know vocabulary. They have not recieved English before. As a result my students first need to learn basic vocabulary and then start developing communicative activites.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest challenge is planning time, there are some activities to develop in class
ReplyDeleteThe giggest challenge to plan an activity is that we must look for a simple activy according to their levels and mix them to work with the students that understand more to support the ones who cannot understand very well.
ReplyDeleteThe best challenge as teacher is selecting the activities to make in the necesary time to have good results in class
ReplyDeleteI think that, as a teacher I should plan for my class . Also I have limited time because I work the students from 2nd, 3rd of EGB they are very restless children.
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ReplyDeleteGood night everybody, considering the question what is a bigger challenge: planning time, or activities not going the way you expected?
For me it is fundamental to say that the time is enough because I teach 5 hours each course from 1-3 BGU. Notwithstanding, suddenly when I plan different activities for developing in the class, they are not finish off successfully because of the high school has to carry out diverse activities which must be accomplish starkly. For example, cultural, social and sporting programs, simulacrums. Those activities mentioned above generate drawbacks in my planning; thereby, the class does not go the way I expected.
Peace,
In my humble opinion, I can say that the bigger challenge are that activities not going in the way I expected. Sometimes the students felt unmotived and this is a real challenge...
ReplyDeleteI consider the planning time as a relevant requirement in the teaching, if we want to get good results with students, because we can include some motivating, interactive, activities, games and so on, and in that way students can feel motivated and involved in the class and can understand in an easy way different topics.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I would say that planning is one of the main activities to succeed in our class. It is noticed when we plan, since each activity has a purpose and a plan for contributing to accomplish the objective of the class. In fact, when planning it is important to set a plan B, by reason of students' mood; simply, they are humans and sometimes they are more energetic but sometimes they are not. In fact, we, as teachers must adapt ourselves to obtain good results.
Best regards,
Saula A. Ordóñez.
Wen we plan the activities for our students, we can get better results but we should have a plan B if the resoutces or the time aren't enough to work.
ReplyDeleteI think that the most difficult part is planning, but I think it is because we did not reflect about our students needs. What I should teach them? What activities are suitable for them? What kind of learners my students are? Which activities are working with the group and which not?
ReplyDeleteAs teachers we should reflect and analyse the situation of each group. we should be aware of all the possibilities inside the classroom and come out with ideas to plan better or know clearly why our plan is not working well.
I can perfectly plan on a piece of paper, but not to get the expected results because of what could be interesting or attractive for the teacher doesn't involve the students. Then I have to plan based on meaningful materials, tools, and moments.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest challenge is planning time for activities, really the teacher to do all possible for that the students learn english, but there isn't the materials necesary and don't are chord to the reality
ReplyDeletees un gran problema la planificacion ya que se dedicamucho tiempo a esta actividad. deberia el gobierno estandarizar y elaborar una sola planificacion para cada nivel la q seria adaptada complementada por el docente ya que los grupos de jovenes no siempre avanzan como se espera.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest challenge is planning time. In some cases as an English Teacher you have many courses. Inn my case I have 10 courses from 2nd to 7th EGB and 1st to 3rd BGU image I need a lot of time plamming and after that some activities do not going well.
ReplyDeleteI think the biggest challenge is planning time too, because nowadays it's too difficult to teach students who loves the technology but not all the teachers have this resource in classes but as teacher we try to make the plan in sort time and fun.
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