MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY 

As a student, I have tried studying English many times with bad results. I am a student of degree in English as a foreign language in the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD,   I belong to the CEAD Jose Acevedo y Gomez in Bogotá city. In the path of my English learning, I have understood that if you want to increase your second language, you need to spend a lot of time, enjoy your learning and share with others your skills. With time, it is possible to learn if you discover your own motivations and interests. a language is not possible to learn in a week or in a semester or buying a lot of books. This is a path where you can establish the goals to achieve and the results that you are searching for. with help of your teachers and an academic process. I choose this career because I thought that learn English was so difficult and I have not had opportunities to travel abroad, But I could see other people who did learn without go on a trip or move another country.   On the other hand, I like to teach other people, and I thought then because I do not study English as a teacher and enjoy this practice teaching this language. And this year  I am in eight semesters of my career and this semester I developed my experience as an English teacher.

My beliefs about my teaching.

Through this practice of teaching, I have thought to create a communicative context in which my students can find effective resources to expand their knowledge boundaries and reach their personal and academic goals in a joyful way. My teaching goals require effort, time, and tons of passion, the main key concepts that come together with satisfying teaching practice. Depending on my student's goals and needs I can adapt my teaching practice according to different approaches, recognizing mainly what the students require to improve their individual learning process.

This university has an advantage because all classes are developed online, in this way teacher and students have a disposition a lot of kind of tools to use according to with the different ways to learn, students can take advantage of the knowledge available on the internet as videos, songs, films, documents among others. Also, there is an opportunity to develop our tools focused on the students.

On the other hand, the student has the opportunity to learn develop online exercises, sharing practices with their classmates, watching videos, learn with their favorite music, practice with letters of the songs, among others. Students are the manager of their knowledge and they can choose the favorite contents to learn, develop and increase the (writing, listening, speaking, and reading) skills.

What I learned about teaching speaking skills.

I always thought about the difficulty to learn to speak the second language and encourage the learners to practice speaking without thinking if the student makes mistakes. The first is lose to afraid to talk more comfortably. Students can participate in class if the teacher develops a simple topic where all students in different levels have the opportunity to take part. Secondly, the teacher asks questions about the topic and introduces the student with images, reading, with songs and invite the student to read aloud in class, on this way students lose the scare to speak. third, Teachers must try do not correct mistakes in their students when they are developing the speaking exercise. with time students can discover these mistakes. 

What I learned about teaching in online environments. 

The teacher always must be prepared to confront a lot of problems as the connection, energy fails, or students do not appear in their class.

The teacher must revise with anticipation the material to use, observe the working of links and the existence of pages. Because sometimes do not appear when we want to work on them.

As a teacher, I like to work with songs because I have discovered for the easily by students to put in practice the speaking skill following the letters of the songs, and reading these letters. I thought this is a good exercise to develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing.

Working online, the teachers can find good material online as videos, songs, interesting readings, blogs specially develops to learn English, and web pages designed for learners.

Finally,  with the advantage of making a record of class because the link is always available for the students can consult.

My principles about teaching speaking online

• It is mandatory to prepare the lesson with enough time.
• Respect for the timetable of class, all people, teacher, and students.
• Respect for different opinions and different thinking.
• To encourage the student's group to learn, increase and use a new vocabulary. The songs are perfect for this activity.
• The teacher must motivate the students to participate in class, with questions, with opinions and contributions, reading exercises, repeating.
• Teachers have to find different material to develop class because students need to see new things and take new ideas about language learning.
• All people always have things to tell, and we can learn about their experiences.
• In a class, all people students, and teachers can learn new things.