Teaching English To Children - Tips For Teachers

Teaching English to children is considered more demanding than all the other forms of teaching, but it can be quite rewarding and enjoyable for you and the children if you put into practice a few important teaching tips.
Teaching English to children requires that you provide a comfortable setting and environment for safe learning to help make that important connection with the kids. Children are naturally eager to learn, unlike adults, and this eagerness is enhanced when they find their teacher friendly and interesting. Children are also very quick to capture what they hear and see, so you need to stick to English 99% of the time when speaking to them. Also, be very careful with the way you pronounce everything, because once they hear it they absorb it like a sponge!
When teaching English to children vocabulary is key. When you introduce new vocabulary, you need to let them see the new words as well as hear them. Writing out visuals and repetition are very important. Also, let the children be involved. Children enjoy speaking as they learn, and you therefore need to make it routine that the children read aloud in chorus. Incorporate creative teaching methods when teaching English to children. Children enjoy the use of songs and games, and it usually has a lasting effect on them. Use simple and funny games to help them learn something. In addition, use music that the children can sing to remember the lesson.
When teaching English to children, you also need to be very sensitive to the different needs of the children. There are children who are naturally fast learners while there are those who are the complete opposite. Others learn faster when you use videos and tapes while others have no problem learning via the ordinary teacher-pupil context. Others get it better when music and animation is used. We all have different learning styles and preferences. However, ESL students are often a special group who not only have the hurdle of learning a second language, but there are many cases where they are the minority group an are also dealing with social and home-life challenges on a day-to-day basis.
As their English teacher, you need to accommodate all of these in one stride. Also, do not allow your class to play alone during break time; allow them to inter mingle with children of different ages and different levels of proficiency in English, because playtime is another learning opportunity for them.
If you’ve been considering a career in ESL Education and think that teaching English to children is a likely career choice for you then you can rest assured that this is a growing field where opportunity is endless. Job openings are never-ending, and this is one job that provides you with a chance to travel the world and teach children in any just about any country you want.

Instructional Technology

In education, instructional technology is "the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning," according to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Definitions and Terminology Committee. Instructional technology is often referred to as a part of educational technology but the use of these terms has changed over the years. While instructional technology covers the processes and systems of learning and instruction, educational technology includes other systems used in the process of developing human capability. History The first use of instructional technology cannot be attributed to a specific person or time. Many histories of instructional technology start in the early 20th century, while others go back to the 17th century. This depends on the definition of instructional technology. Definitions that focus on a systems approach tend to reach further back in history, while those definitions focused on sensory devices are more recent.
The use of audio and visual instruction was boosted as a military response to the problems of a labor shortage during World War II in the United States. There was a definitive need to fill the factories with skilled labor. Instructional technology provided a methodology for training in a systematic and efficient manner.
With it came the use of highly structured manuals, instructional films, and standardized tests. Thomas Edison saw the value of instructional technology in films but did not formalize the science of instruction as the US military did so well.

 Current status

Institucional technology is a growing field of study which uses technology as a means to solve educational challenges, both in the classroom and in distance learning environments.
While instructional technology promises solutions to many educational problems, resistance from faculty and administrators to the use of technology in the classroom is not unusual. This reaction can arise from the belief--or fear--that the ultimate aim of instructional technology is to reduce or even remove the human element of instruction. However, most instructional technologists would counter that education will always require human intervention from instructors or facilitators.
Many graduate programs are producing instructional designers, who increasingly are being employed by industry and universities to create materials for distance education programs. These professionals often employ e-learning tools, which provide distance learners the opportunity to interact with instructors and experts in the field, even if they are not located physically close to each other.
More recently a new form of Instructional technology known as Human Performance Technology has evolved. HPT focuses on performance problems and deals primarily with corporate entities.

 Relation to learning theory

The purpose of instructional technology, of course, is the promotion of learning. Learning theory (education) has influenced Instructional design and Instructional designers (the practitioners of Instructional Technology). Instructional Technologies promote communication and interactivity. These two come together under the general heading of Interaction.
Moore (1989) argues that there are three types of learner interaction (learner-content, learner-instructor, and learner-learner interactions). In the years since Moore's article, several philosophical views have surfaced that relate Instructional technology to these types of interaction.
Most traditional researchers (those subscribing to Cognitivism) argue that learner-content interaction is perhaps the most important endeavor of Instructional technology. Some researchers (those subscribing to constructivism) argue that Moore's social interactions, (learner-instructor and learner-learner interactions), are as useful as learner-content interaction.

 Areas

Razavi (2005) advocates the idea that educational technology covers instructional technology. It includes instructional technology and the field study in human teaching and learning. So educational technology is broader than instructional technology. Instructional technology itself consists of two major parts: one is teaching technology and the other is learning technology. In the education industry, the term "instructional technology" is frequently used interchangeably with "educational technology."
Human Performance Technology (HPT) has a focus on corporate environments. Learning sciences is a growing area of focus dealing instructional techniques and learning theories.

Education in El Salvador

Education in El Salvador follows a (1 or 2) -9-2-5 system:

• One or two years of preschool (called kinder, short for kindergarten), which are not part of the State's Educational System.

• Nine years of Basic Education divided in three Cycles of three grades each:
  • 1st Cycle: from 1st to 3rd grades,
  • 2nd Cycle: from 4th to 6th grades,
  • 3rd Cycle: from 7th to 9th grades, which is a transition time between primary and secondary education/high school (e.g. specialized teachers for each assignment).
• Two (or an optional three years technical program) of Middle Education:
  • Two year General Bachelor's Degree (High school Degree)
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    (or an optional) Three year Technical Bachelor's Degree (Technical High school degree) (e.g. Accountancy, Computer Science, Secretary Degree, etc.)
• Five years (minimum) of university or other tertiary education.

However, the national educational system is not the only one available.

Pre-university education is not free. The State provides public education for which a fee is paid if the person paying can afford it and only one payment per family is made (i.e. siblings pay only one fee). Public education is nevertheless inconstant in quality, being even extremely poor in rural areas and not so good in urban areas.

The University of El Salvador (UES) is the largest of the three public Universities in the country.

In 2010, the literacy rate was 82% for both sexes^.

In 1992 the Ministry of Education under Cecilia Gallardo de Cano embarked on a program of reform of basic education.

                                  

How Technology has Changed My Life!!!

Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or serve some purpose. The word technology comes from the Greek technología (τεχνολογία) — téchnē (τέχνη), an "art", "skill" or "craft" and -logía (-λογία), the study of something, or the branch of knowledge of a discipline.^[1] The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include construction technology, medical technology, and information technology.
Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The human species' use of technology began with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The prehistorical discovery of the ability to control fire increased the available sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in travelling in and controlling their environment. Recent technological developments, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale. However, not all technology has been used for peaceful purposes; the development of weapons of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from clubs to nuclear weapons.
Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many societies, technology has helped develop more advanced economies (including today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and deplete natural resources, to the detriment of the Earth and its environment. Various implementations of technology influence the values of a society and new technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.
Philosophical debates have arisen over the present and future use of technology in society, with disagreements over whether technology improves the human condition or worsens it. Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, and similar movements criticise the pervasiveness of technology in the modern world, opining that it harms the environment and alienates people; proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and techno-progressivism view continued technological progress as beneficial to society and the human condition. Indeed, until recently, it was believed that the development of technology was restricted only to human beings, but recent scientific studies indicate that other primates and certain dolphin communities have developed simple tools and learned to pass their knowledge to other generations.

Well in my opinion technology can be good or bad to learn because have benefits and have too many disadvantages in the process of teach and learn. It´s necesary know about how we have to use the technology positive because can be a nice tool, and in my case I don't like to much thinks like Blackberry's because I think that are distractors!