Teaching Methods and Types of Personality: Planner

Effectiveness of teaching (and learning) a foreign language depends on whether the methods applied are suitable to the personality of the learner. The more suitable methods are used, the better results in the teaching/learning process are achieved. In the series of eight short articles I am going to present the methods that can be used while teaching the eight different personality types.

 

Planner

Planners need to have everything in order. As a teacher you have to arrange the teaching proces in advanced. It would be useful if you prepared the list of topics and presented it to your student. Make it look professional and logically ordered. The first lesson should be an organisation of the material, presentation of the rules of your cooperation, as well as research on what your student needs and what expectations he/she has as far as the whole proces is concerned. 

Here are some of the methods suitable for the planner:

  1. Organise the lesson carefully and be open to your student’s suggestions. 

  2. Arrange the vocabulary and grammar topic logically. 

  3. Order your lesson (e.g. start with the new vocabulary, then proceed to the reading part, listening part, grammar, communication and writing). Of course, all of them do not neet to be done during one meeting. 

  4. Create several key stages of the lesson (e.g. checking homework, discussion on up-to-date topics, new material and exercises, extra activity: exam builder, culture corner or a role-play). 

  5. Prepare materials for further discussion or exercises (e.g. if the lesson is about reading an article on the Irish landscape and culture, prepare vocabulary connected with festivals around the world or exercise on different travelling destinations as a continuation of the article). 

  6. Give a lot of handouts with vocabulary, grammar constructions of communicative expressions, make references to different language sources (organise yuor student’s work outside the „classroom”). 

  7. Pay attention to the particular topic that might be of some interest to your student (e.g. planning a career path, arranging a dream house/holiday, speculating about the future, time management, etc.)

  8. Check your student’s knowledge on the regular basis (revisions, tests).