TEACHING ENGLISH ESSENTIALS
An article by Lucía González [Nursery teacher at MITVAL] . Nowadays, children are being educated in so many different ways, and our questions don’t stop going on around our head...How do children learn? How could we increase their curiosity? How can we help them to remember, understand or increase their knowledge? what can we do to guide their communicative English skills? what should we teach first? But if you take on board a few essentials, there's a good chance you'll end up cherishing the experience. Here are five tips that helped me when I started out. 1. Build your understanding of how young children learn It is vital to get the approach right for children of this age. You soon realise that children learn and develop at different rates and in different ways. If we don’t understand the age group, we can end up doing more damage than good. You need to understand what to expect from the children and make sure that what you do in class or home reflects where they are in th...