TESL 0100: Unit 10 Reflection - Look How Far We've Come!
TESL 0100 Unit 10 Reflection: Look How Far We’ve Come! (Source: Etienne Robin) It’s incredible how quickly time has flown by! Within the blink of an eye, we are already heading into the last week of this course. Seeing as this is the last blogpost I’ll be writing for TESL 0100, I would like to take the time to stop and reflect on my learning over these past ten units. We’ve covered quite a bit of content and so I would like to share three things that really resonated with me. The first thing that particularly stood out to me were the different roles a teacher must assume in the classroom. Brown and Lee (2015) outlined these roles on pages 259 – 261: 1.) Teacher as Controller 2.) Teacher as Director 3.) Teacher as Manager 4.) Teacher as Facilitator 5.) Teacher as Resource Until reading this chapter, I hadn’t given much though to the various roles a teacher needs to take on in order effectively interact with their students. By stating th