Week 02: “Is the great American Teacher dead?”
“Is the great American teacher dead?” (2012) by Joh n Ivers. He describes many concepts, principles, and elements that a great ESL teacher may have. Ivers gives us some tips to help engage our students and to become a better teacher principle to resurrect meaningful, effective, and Consciousness Raising Instruction”. He explores that great teachers are not only knowledgeable, but they are also capable of delivering the message with such passion to their students. As a teacher of a future TESOL class, this article was very insightful and helpful to me because I consider that teachers must guide, inspire, help our students become critical thinkers where we can deepen the teaching, and it has value for it. A good teacher uses a diversity of tools to have student's participation and engagement in their learning. Ken Bain (2004) shared a facet of metacognition, they were “thinking about thinking” helps them reflect to “new levels of consciousness”. How im...