Envisioning  ELT´s Future… ABLA´12 Dominican Republic

On November 16^th and 17^th, l had my first participation in the annual conference for English teachers which took place at the Hotel el Embajador in Santo Domingo,  it was an unforgettable experience where l learned interesting techniques that can help teachers in the classroom, and  what l liked most is that l was able to understand almost everything. To heard listen different pronunciations and meet native English people helped me to improve my vocabulary.

From the expositors l took some notes that l want to share:

It is really important to cultivate curiosity, creativity and in our students.

 Success in the classroom depend less on materials , techniques or linguistic analysis, and more on what goes on inside and between the people in the classroom.

Cultivating genuine and curiosity:

·         Set judgment aside and observe, and guess!

·         Value not knowing

·         Genuine questions

Joy comes from a place deep within, it is deeper and longer than happiness, for cultivating joy it is really important  to see and interact with students first, before labeling them as students!, and to develop empathy for ourselves and others, to create habits of gratitude.

Joy comes from success –learn to see and celebrate small steps!!!

What you see and feel is what you remember!!!

Writing is something that you can do!!!

The key is to think about why we are using it…

The section which l enjoyed most was displayed by Amiris Del Carmen Helena  it was titled ¨how to have fun in class come break the ice and check in¨ in this section she exposed some tricks to help teachers to meet students in the first day of class, the participants perform some activities to check in.

 check in means how we are going to manage our class.

An ice breaker is an activity to learn about each other, a way to introduce a topic that students have not seen…

Finally l just want to say that ¨leaning happens in a natural way and no matter what is your learning style…