A teacher reading with some young learners

My ideal teacher

This lesson can be done at any time, including as a celebration of World Teachers’ Day on October 5th. In this lesson primary learners do a series of simple and supported vocabulary and grammar activities which lead to them writing about their ideal teacher. At the end of the lesson they can make a classroom display of their texts..

Learning outcomes

Review adjectives, verbs and nouns
Express ideas about an ideal teacher
Develop writing skills with scaffolding
Be creative in a supported way
Contribute to a class display

Age/ Level

Aged 9-12 (CEFR A2+)

Time

55 minutes + extension activity

Materials

Lesson plan - This includes appendices with cut ups and a writing template
Presentation - This can replace worksheet
Worksheet

In addition, you will need paper and colour pencils or crayons if making posters or a display.

Some of the words would be tough for most of my elementary students to guess, but I think this would also be a great exercise for junior high. They also have very strong opinions about what teachers should and shouldn't do and this is a good way to allow them to express themselves in a positive, constructive way.

Watching this course plan and activities designed, I felt touched. Yes, what an ideal teacher are described like, aren't from teachers', parents' and adults' eyes, but from children's own eyes. It may be a sentence concerning their well-being situation, a caressing gently contributing to their confidence's constructions, or a soft voice singing-out a beautiful song, which would be deeply stored in children's minds and influencing their life-long time. Yes, giving a time to our children, making a plan in course for encouraging their free expressions, and designing out a series of activities associating their group-working in commenting us would be compared to the self-cultivations of our own literacies. From this course, we can learn more from our own students interactively. Furthermore, I found the adjectives were all designed as for the cultivations of emotional intelligences of our children - not to say the wisdoms in making relationships, but one type of emotional expressions. Some practical behaviours, according to emotional functions, have also been described out by applying some 'verbs'. This point is what I felt very happy to see, of which standards of 'deal teacher' have been reflected out from cognitive approach to behaviourism. We can further think out more words to associate their free expressions, from their real life-demands. Thanks for giving a chance to appreciate this beautiful teaching-art !

After the article the author attaches further are like the examples which will be helpful for us to practice in future. I agree with the point of the author . It will help to develop or improve children's grammar, vocabulary, writing skill and also creativity . Some of the words would be tough for most of elementary students to guess, but I think this would also be a great exercise for junior high . They also have very strong opinions about what teachers should and shouldn't do and this is a good way to allow them to express themselves in a positive, constructive way.