What kind of teacher are you?
Different approaches to teaching (Grammar-Translation, Audio-Lingual, The Communicative Approach) How do people learn languages? Ways of organizing lessons. The role of a teacher. Common mistakes teachers make. Hitting the G spot. Presenting grammar structure. Arguments for and against teaching grammar. Approaches to teaching grammar (concept and form, inductive and deductive, PPP, ESA, EASA) Putting a presentation under the microscope. What's that word? Teaching vocabulary. What is vocabulary? Criteria for selecting vocabulary to teach. What a student needs to know about a lexical item. How our brains organize vocabulary. Conveying meaning. Activating vocabulary.