Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost.nifl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00917; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:09:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:09:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <970617210745_1045128435@emout01.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: BAUMVV@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: Re: ESL Teacher Training X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: RO Content-Length: 551 Lines: 9 I think teaching, ESL teaching included, is an art and a discipline with a body of knowledge, research and strategies that assist one in teaching. Some teachers are born; that is they have some good instict about teaching and easily establish rapport with students -but even they can broaden the way they provide instruction to students who have different ways of learning and different abilities. If teaching is a profession that the education, journals etc. should deepen the practitioners ability to teach. Are doctors born? lawyers? Baumvv
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