Language teaching professionals have built up a body of theoretical and practical knowledge since 1980s that has resulted in the formulation of various “innovative approaches to language teaching”. What exactly does the phrase “innovative approaches to language teaching” mean? This is not about the silent way, communicative approach or so. This is not concern here. The concern of this document focuses on why some new ideas or practices spread while others do not. More concretely, why does a new textbook succeed in the public education system of one country while identical materials fail in another? What must program directors at universities, public schools, and private sector institutions do to persuade teachers to use new ways of teaching? All language teaching professionals doubtless ask themselves such questions often. Yet, until recently, applied linguistics, the discipline that should provide language educators with the knowledge to answer such questions, has been noticeably silent on these issues. This silence is surprising, since understanding what determines the success or failure of new pedagogical ideas and practices is surely a crucial issue, especially for teacher educators. School school school
Every school has a name but school is so lame school what can I say school im there like every day school is like a prison, you can nver escape school is like having a detencion every day school you tell us to do schoolwork and at home we have to do homework: school, school, school work, work, work study, study, study test, test, test it all goes trough my mind what else should i do might the principle think; . My school My rules My way or the hard way This is what i think --Known Author--
Educational innovation is an interesting topic, because there are many things that we as teachers have to take into account at the time to innovate our teaching methods, trying to make a success work, because although we really want to innovate is posible, in order to catch the attention of our students and also to feel that our job is nice, funny, and the most important to avoid those old methods, that make a interesting topic in a bored one; as is show in the poem above.
I really hope you read the following biography about Helen Keller. She is incredible, despite her deafblind; she got a lot of awards that we could imagine that a deafblind person will do.
Helen Kellerwas an author, political activist, and also, American deafblind speaker. And, Anne Sullivan taught Helen to touch things and then spelled out what the object was, in the hand of Helen. So, Helen learned to read. To learn to write, Sullivan designed a board, corrugated so that a pencil could form letters. To teach her to speak, Sullivan put Helen's hand in his throat so he could feel the vibrations created when communicating. Helen Sullivan was trying to form these same vibrations. This procedure was used to teach Helen to speak since his youth.
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
Helen Kellerwas an author, political activist, and American speaker deafblind. For a while, Sullivan taught Helen in a cabin located on family property, to be separated from their overbearing parents. Anne Sullivan (Anne Sullivan had contracted a disease called trachoma, which impaired their vision. She was at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, where many operations were done to treat your disease. Her vision improved and became a model student, graduating with honors. To help other blind children, Anne learned the manual alphabet and worked with a blind and deaf girl named Laura Bridgman. This experience would serve her for the future.)Allowed to touch things and then spelled out what the object was, in the hand of Helen. So, Helen learned to read. To learn to write, Sullivan got his disciple a specially designed board, corrugated so that a pencil could form letters. To teach him to speak, Sullivan put Helen's hand in his throat so he could feel the vibrations created when communicating. Helen Sullivan was trying to form these same vibrations. This procedure was used to teach Helen to speak since his youth. His speech, however, remained unclear. It was not until years later that, with the help of the technique of a voice teacher and support from Annie, Helen was finally able to speak clearly. Eventually Helen Keller went to Radcliffe College and graduated with honors. He published his first book in 1902, "The Story of My Life", the same was written by John Macy.Keller and Sullivan in 1898
Writings
Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.
One of her earliest pieces of writing, at age 11, was The Frost King (1891). There were allegations that this story had been plagiarized from The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby. An investigation into the matter revealed that Keller may have experienced a case of cryptomnesia, which was that she had Canby's story read to her but forgot about it, while the memory remained in her subconscious.
At age 22, Keller published her autobiography, The Story of My Life (1903), with help from Sullivan and Sullivan's husband, John Macy. It includes words that Keller wrote and the story of her life up to age 21, and was written during her time in college.
Keller wrote The World I Live In in 1908 giving readers an insight into how she felt about the world. Out of the Dark, a series of essays on socialism, was published in 1913.
Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968 at her home, Arcan Ridge, located in Westport, Connecticut. A service was held in her honor at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and her ashes were placed there next to her constant companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.
Posthumous honors
Helen Keller as depicted on the Alabama state quarter
