Teaching English - The Full Stop: Micro Teach and Pedagogy

Assessment
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
It is essential that every child must have an equal opportunity for education and must allow a
mainstream school to reach and have full potential and better knowledge. It has been seen that
some children are there who are going through some uncertain and adverse situation, therefore it
has become vital to take some crucial steps to help these children and protect them from all kind
of adverse and worst situation (Areba and et. al., 2021). The use of micro- teach and pedagogy
can be made in an efficient way to protect and safeguard these children from the threat and risk
of adverse situation in their childhood. Thus, the current assignment is based on the analysis
about the adverse situation encountered by the children along with discussion about concepts like
pedagogy and micro- tech to provide better understanding and education to child along with
presenting a Micro tech plan on selected concept of English – Full Stop.
Main Body
Every child should have an education and have the opportunity to go to a mainstream
school to reach their full potential and learning knowledge; therefore, education is to prepare
children for the wider society. Knowledge of English is one of the most important topics for a
child to learn as it would enable them to communicate by learning their spoken language and in
this way teaching them effective communication skills. Myhill infers that “literacy unites the
important skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening.” (Myhill, 2006). The most significant
reason for children learning English is that language is the basis, and the more you can master it,
the more effectively you interact however other children who are learning English as their
second language needs more support. Cox says, “when talking about language, have referred
primarily to English as a mother tongue it will become complex when we begin to talk about
other languages”. (Cox, 2011). Children’s checking through their work allows them to go over
their work and make amendments to it by allowing the child to see if their sentences make sense
by reconstructing their writing. Myhill indicates that “good oral work enhances pupils
understanding of language in oral and written forms. (Myhill, 2006). Children going through
what they have written will enable them to identify if they have used repetitive words, and this
way, they would be able to use a variety of words that they could find from a dictionary. The
statement that I have picked is proofreading for punctuation errors from the national curriculum
therefore the activity that I have picked is identifying full stop. The activities that Collins has
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referred to are giving them worksheets that involve writing the full stop for example, “I want to
look at the television”. (Collins, 2011). One of the activities are identify where the full stops are
that has been used in the sentences; therefore, Collins gives an example: “we put a full stop at the
end of a sentence,”, a child should be able to identify where they should put a full stop at a
sentence, but it is beneficial for a child to be shown an example to give an awareness. In order
for this activity to be carried out it is important to have awareness that there are different
pedagogical approaches of teaching styles, such as constructivist, collaborative as each child has
a different fingerprint of learning styles. Wall infers that “Pedagogy refers to that set of
instructional techniques and strategies that enable learning to occur.” “(Wall, 2015). Some
children might like to see the work being demonstrated; however, some children like to have
one-to-one support. e.g., we could write a comma and a full stop on a whiteboard as this way it
would allow children to volunteer to say which one is a full stop. Learning styles can recognise
children needs in order for teaching to be scheduled that suit the children needs Learning styles is
about recognising the preferences of individuals and also developing strategies to help them
succeed. Supporting children is an educational context that is accredited to Bruner, who detected
the way parents communicate with their children to help them learn; however how parents would
offer support but would slowly withdraw the support until the child could implement the task.
Stephanie says, "Pedagogy should neither be to staff directed with a high share of staff-initiated
nor too child-cantered. (Stephanie 2015). Some children would have some learning needs; as
children might have dyslexia therefore, labelling them will recognise each student's strength and
weaknesses however labelling can sometimes have a destructive impact on that child as by
making that child feel for self for fulfilling prophecy, therefore, the child would lose hope in
himself. Children who have the support and staff-directed approaches have some advantages
such as better learning. But this approach can sometimes negatively affect their children's
motivation. Children can choose whether they would like to do the activity in a group discussion,
or they would like to do the work by themselves, depending on how they would prefer to carry it
out. Geopel infers that "Some children are keen to sit near the front, wanting engagement, while
others sit in the back. (Geopel, 2015) As children are doing the activity they would build on their
knowledge of their speaking skills by having a discussion as this way children would be able to
learn that whatever they do in their life would take place in the corporation of other people and
according to functionalism each aspect of society depends on each other. Also, every child does
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