时间： 2012年12月25日（周二下午2：40-4：00）

地点：语言室305

主讲人： Maria

讲座题目：The Importance of Communication in the Classroom and How to Keep a Class Active

主要内容：

I have taught about 5000 students in this University, and this helped me to clearly understand the important role of communication in the classroom.

 

It is said that a good student makes a good University, but the teachers are the tools for the students through which to feel interest in the subject being taught.

 

I found out over many years of work that in order for the student to interact with the teacher， there needs to happen a close relationship between students and teacher; a free environment for communication, and undoubtedly a desire, respectively, of teaching and learning.

 

With the right approach the teacher may help an average student to become a top student, so communication and interaction with my students is, I would say, a constant in my views of what authentic teaching is.

 

Here are some of the communication techniques that I use in the classroom:

 

1- Warming up the class, asking how the students are feeling, making some comments about the weather forecast ,etc.

2- Students acting in role playing and the rest of the class evaluating these students.

3- Start the lesson in the book, scheduled for the day.

4- Several students reading passages and interpreting their reading.

5- The whole class taking part in a discussion usually in groups, supervised by myself, going from group to group listening and helping.