missteacher

As I told you last time, I had a visitor in one of my classes last Thursday to give me advice as I've been a full time teacher only for a couple of months now.
Well, she was very nice and she talked A LOT. Couldn't stop her! But everything she said was interesting and useful. She made compliments and then she told me what to improve and the direction my teaching should take.

The problem is that we are at the beginning of a revolution here in France, as for how to teach languages. We have to abide by the Europen Framework. My initial training didn't really train me in that perspective. A bit sure but not fully. Si I find myself with all this advice about teaching in accordance to the new Framework and I don't know exactly how to do. Because we're at the beginning of this process, few ressources are available for teachers. The school books are awfully boring, the colleagues don't seem very eager to start the process and the institution doesn't give you many clues.

I'll try to open soon a new section on this forum called "pedagogy", where I will try to post my ideas and my projects for teaching English as a seconde language in accordance to the new Framework.
I'll just try to do it bit by bit. Because I can't imagine whole new projetcs for my whole class just like this. It will take me an awful lot of time!!!!

To learn more about the European Framwork for teaching:

http://eduscol.education.fr/D0067/cecrl.htm (in French).

http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/CADRE_EN.asp (in English).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_...