Communicative Approach

Alike the community language learning, this is in groups, well a Little bit, but think about it, no mother language in class! Hell yeah that’s what I’m talking about. One as a teacher, must cooperate if they’re wrong or what, this is how you see if they are skilled at the target language, I will use it when being a teacher, this is how you push them to talk!

Community Language Learning… let’s learn together!

Pronunciation, oh lord, if anyone’s want to learn any language… you have to talk naturally, like them! Not the other’s language words whit the intonation of our mother language. Is like… an going to a McDonalds, here in Colombia… the cashier is American, he talk you in Spanish barely notable to you… isn’t it annoying?, or order some Chinese food and this woman talks you like she were talking damn Chinese! Hell no, working with your community is good, you’ll work to be better than the others, no to shit it in front of the class, and always a bully will be behind you back laughing at you because you pronounce bad!

That’s why this method is good!

Total Physical Response... hey! read!

This one would be good whit a real situation scene, well, that depends on the teacher’s activity, what about a trial, when they have to defend themselves to go to prison, and fight for it. Ok, it says that PHYSICAL RESPONSE, yes, how about tasting some food, and tell others what face is that! It is useful for that, showing emotions, feelings and yes, to prove if what it is commanded to them is well understood!

By the way, this series of commands can be boring if they’re used often!

The Silent Way... oh my god.. This is awkward...

This method was the one I presented in class, and when being the “teacher” that day, I just realized that whit this method, the teacher just is a lazy dumb who wants his payment, what the teacher is for!?? I do like classes guided by the teacher, that the students get dipped whit the teacher’s knowledge, obviously you have to put to work all the knowledge they’ve acquired, but not whit silence, silence, some say is smart… to me is silence is the language of the dead, they cannot speak.. so.. sorry, we are alive and we must!!

Multiple Intelligences Method

To me, this is one of the methods I like the most, and it goes also to the last question of focusing on the different capacities of the students, as well as their necessities and way of thinking; the teacher keeps discovering the fortress of the students, in different ways, drawing, writing, speaking, debating, etc. Is a very good way for a talent hunter, and I do like that, could you imagine being the one that discover anybody’s talent and exploit it, then in the future, if happens, this genius will tell who was his teacher!

Hey Brian, did you change your mind 'bout being a teacher?

I start by writing, why didn't you write in the whole semester to keep track of how you change your mind, but, I left a long time to see if I really changed, and now, I see teaching not as far as I thought.
Now I think is a challenge, and in this class I understood that you can change people's minds, if not you can verify by reading this and my first post.
I do like change people's minds, and in this country, it would be very honorable for me to change this country of conformists; behind all the grammar or whatever I teach, it will be forever the responsible thinking of changing the world for good!.

Pdt, Before, i saw being a teacher impossible, now, to me is something i can focus on the next years and try to develop what would be Brian Martin as a teacher, by the way, i want to prove everything, you know, no one knows!

How could I, as a future languange teacher, plan lessons based on a pedagogy that takes into account diversity, cognitive, linguistic, racial, ethnic, in a locally appropiate and culturally sensitive ways?

I'll begin my classes from one single point, we all are human beings, and we can get until we want to get, nothing is forgiven to anyone. Now, we live a reality, and if we want to change the world, we have to stand on our reality; some aspects of the question above are ready to create indifference, like the ethnic and racial aspects, in the other ones, linguistic and cognitive, i'll give some balancing or leveling, so the students can be up-to-date with my class, so we start from that single point and we go on and on; on special cases, extra-class and work will be assigned.

The important part of my pedagogy is the equality, it is essential that we know we go to the same part, and to have a good idea of the future is how the present is beautiful.