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            M1 - Developing teaching skills  2300-GPTE-M1-DTS: Reflection on Teaching Methods Miamo Lydie University of Warsaw 22 nd October 2021 Supervised by   Prof Malgorzagorzatar Matysik             REFLECTTION ON METHODS I have been teaching for the past 16 years as a private tutor and as a full-time class teacher, without any formal training as an educator, besides the 3 pedagogical regional seminars that my former Head Master registered me to with my colleagues. Today I am actually shocked and impressed to discover all the teaching techniques, methods, and approaches (I am yet to understand the differences between them) governing the educational field. In fact, if some employers go through my resume to assess if I qualify to teach in their schools just by checking my academic profile and seeing “Bachelor’s Degree in Law”, I will never or will hardly get the job. However, m...

          The Role of the Teacher in Modern Education Miamo Lydie Department of Pedagogy , University of Warsaw M3 - Professional and Academic Discourse  2300-GPTE-M3-PAD: First Year Writing Professor  Małgorzata Matysik January 31, 2022       ABSTRACT This paper gives a brief history of the general trend that characterized the role of the teacher in the traditional educational system, and the gradual reforms that have led to the consistent development and transformation of the role of the teacher from a “producer” of knowledge in a teacher-centered classroom, to an “extractor” of knowledge in a student-centered classroom. It also outlines a number of roles identified by some educational gurus, that a teacher evolving in a modern system of education should ideally assume, in order to ensure learners’ autonomy and meet their individual needs and goals.     THE ROLE OF A TEACHER IN MODERN...

  REFLECTION ON PRONUNCIATION Before, as a pupil, student, and language teacher, I had never experienced any circumstances where the phonetic part of pronunciation was considered something very important, or even critical in language learning. It was treated as something “good to know”, that one just mentions in passing or just writes beside a new word for formality, and this is exactly how I perceived phonetics, isolated from pronunciation. This is why within the framework of my Graduate Program in Teaching English to Young Learners at the University of Warsaw, I was very surprised when last semester I found out that I got the wrong pronunciations of the letter “a” for example. Based on this error, I even produced and distributed a learning tool “The Alpha Story” to help students to remember the sounds of the letters of the alphabet with a story, during the period of crisis in my country when all schools were closed for some years. I was also pronounced “who” with the /w/ soun...