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Modern problems of teaching foreign languages
CHAPTER II: MODERN PROBLEMS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE 2.1 The factors of the present problems for teachers
The study revealed problems that are quite universal for teaching learners with developmental disability. Teachers in this study expressed the need for reduced class sizes, modern teaching materials, motivations to teachers, and additional support services from the government. Most teachers teaching children with developmental disability did not receive any special needs education training from the university, they feel that they are not qualified to teach the children with developmental disability. This study revealed that the classrooms for children with developmental disability in Tanzania at large have poor learning environment to support the learners with developmental disability. [13; 34] The study reveals that collaboration between special needs education teachers and parents for children with developmental disability is necessary for the wellbeing of their children. Although the results of this study focused on Tanzania, the suggestions may be useful for other developing countries. In order to improve the poor learning environment for special needs educational for children with developmental disability, the following aspects are recommended. Specialized training facilities Resources; both human and materials Special needs education teachers Future research in this area should involve systematic, long-term development work across arange of sites and settings, which also allows for the examination of the impact of theinnovations upon achievement. Such research is necessary if we are to advance knowledgeabout teaching and learning to understand how combinations of teaching approach. problems faced by teachers when teaching learners with developmental disability is the topic for this thesis. However, learners are in this study constrict to children at primary school. Teachers must also learn throughout life and developnew skills if they are be effective in teaching others to learn to know, to do, to be and tolive together. Clearly, teachers must be models of what they advocate: they must themselves continue to learn, and must have the opportunity to do so by participating in events. Certainly as thisdemonstrates, many teachers are committed to their own professional development,and are prepared to make financial sacrifices to do so. And so I must salute you for the commitment you areshowing to your own learning, while calling on governments and development agencies to also play their part inmaking professional growth opportunities. Keeping in mind the global problems facing us, the coursework proposed a broad definition of the foundations of education, suggesting that it be constructed around four pillars - learning to live together, learning to know, learning to do, and learning to be. [14; 68] In the 21st Century, learning to live together is the greatest challenge. We must want to understand each other, to live together in mutual respect, to work in teams, to resolve our differences in peaceful ways – orperish. If we wish, through education, to learn to live together, we must reflect on the way in which history,geography, languages and civics are taught, and our policies of inclusion and exclusion from schooling, highereducation, training and employment. Learning to live together is not easy. We are under global pressure towards greater and greater economiccompetition, and have a rapidly changing and uncertain labor market within each local community. Thus, thereare both global and local tensions in the struggle to survive. In order to participate in a global society we mustbetter understand our roots. At the same time, we must be capable of living together in the communities towhich we naturally belong, in harmony with the neighbors with whom we may or may not share a commonlanguage, history, religion or worldview. Today, the vast majority of conflicts are within, rather than between countries. We have not succeeded inlearning to live together. We live in a world in which the wants of the individual and the greed of the rich andpowerful are destroying the social fabric of many communities and the cultures of many marginalized groups. Basic social institutions such as the family and the community are under threat. Global problemssuch as drug abuse, the arms trade, child prostitution and violence increasingly invade our shores. Teachers have a crucial role to play in both protecting and developingcultures while at the same time systematically educating for social cohesion and intercultural understanding. Teachers have a central role in creating a culture of peace through education. As teachers, we must ourselvesco-operate, share our teaching materials, research and work together if we are to be more successful than wehave been to date in facing this challenge. To help teachers in their efforts to promote inter-cultural understanding, to find effective ways of teachingtolerance and to live together is important. We are also developing resource materials, teaching guides and kits in most areas of thecurriculum. [15; 105] Learning to be is the title and principle theme of the Faure Commission, which reported to UNESCOtwenty-five years ago. This noble concept is just as vital today as it was then – we must encourage the fullestdevelopment of the creative potential of each individual, in all its richness and complexity. Learning to know today means more than acquiring a specific body of knowledge, but also an approachto learning itself, while learning to do means more than just skills but also the application of knowledge in newsituations, and the linking of learning with doing throughout life. For we do not know what knowledge will be ofmost value in the future. Thus, we need to build a broad base of knowledge and skills and create a love oflearning and a fearless dedication to the pursuit of truth which will ensure that our students continue to learnthroughout life. We live in a knowledge-based society, one in which the new information technologies are destined tochange the ways in which we access and process information and communicate, and thus the ways in whichwe learn to know and to do. UNESCO has been actively promoting reflection on how best to use the newtechnologies to reach the unreached and on how to avert the creation of information subways. The question, however, is oneof having both good teachers and good educational software, not one or the other. We must undertake research and development programs on how best to use the new technologies to give teachers more time to devote toproblems of promoting learning to be and learning to live together – after all, these are essentially humantasks, demanding an outstanding teacher. They can never be done by a machine. Many fundamental changes in the role of teachers are needed if they are to fulfill their mission inpreparing young people for the future. To be sure, the community has high, even if often unrealistic expectationsof its teachers and schools. We will be held accountable by the communities which support us and depend onus to help their children to learn to know, to do, to be, and to live together. Our commitment as educators toensuring quality and high standards within our own profession is crucial to improving quality in education andensuring that we play the new roles expected of us. I know of no educational reform which has succeeded without the intimate involvementof teachers from the outset. And so-called educational reform cannot claim to be a truly educational reform if itdoes not make a positive difference where it counts – in the classroom Download 52.08 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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