Teaching and Curriculum

Running head: TEACHING AND CURRICULUM
TEACHING AND CURRICULUM
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Table of Contents
Section 1: Teaching as a context.....................................................................................................2
Section 2: Analysis and Evaluation.................................................................................................6
A. Resources................................................................................................................................6
B. Teaching Methodology...........................................................................................................7
C. Student Development..............................................................................................................8
References:....................................................................................................................................10

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Section 1: Teaching as a context
An important aspect of language teaching is the use of the cultural appropriateness. The
use of the correct text in the classroom is one of the most essential features of teaching English. I
as an English teacher believe that using the right text can help in the right knowledge and
imparting the right education to the students. I believe that it can be very easy to use an
inaccessible text and make things difficult for the student. The use of the inaccessible text on the
other hand, leads to imparting the wrong education to the students whom I teach. This can have a
negative impact on the students in the future. As I am involved in teaching profession for a long
time now, I have been observing the school textbooks for a long period of time. I go through the
contents of the books every year and assess the positives and negatives of the following books.
Recently when I was going through the English textbook of standard eight I noticed a striking
thing. There were use of words like Pie man and pennies as well as snow and mittens. This was
understandable as it was one of the necessary things for the board of education to use these
words as a part of the UK educational system. The presence of works of prominent writers like
Shakespeare and Mark Twain along with some Australian writers was seen in the books.

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Language teaching contexts and experiences have generally led to the emergence of two
views that is in regard to the culture of the society. One of the most common views is that, the
culture of the target language should be included in the texts of the school and colleges. Apart
from these additional measures like implementation of separate cultural classes is recommended
personally by me. This type of cultural classes helps to develop positive benefits that are useful
for the educational system. On the other hand, the opposite view is that the exposure of students
to the western culture has a clear damaging effect to the local cultures of the society.
Another important area which needs to be considered is the teacher cognition. According
to me teacher cognition can be said to be as one of the major areas of social context involving
teacher and the students. The study of teacher cognition is generally characterized by means of
multiplicity of labels which have been posited to describe either wholly or by part, the
psychological context of the teaching (Borg, 2003). As mentioned earlier I am an English teacher
at high school. In my school English has been provided the status of a foreign language and thus
thjere is no opportunities to speak English outside the classroom. Therefore all that students
speak is inside the classroom during my classes. I use the grammar translation Method to teach
the students and students as well as the teachers are both from the same context which means
that their first language is the same. The teachers like me are clearly responsible for the teaching
and thus are responsible for the development of the students. I have seen two major school
divisions. One of the them is private and the other is the public schools. I teach in a public school
where all the teachers are basically from the same background, culture and the same country.
Only one textbook is followed for each of the subjects. Except English all the subjects are taught
by L1. On the other hand there are the private schools most of the English teachers are native
speakers and all of the subjects are taught in English, with the students paying fees for the