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Role Of Teacher: The role of teacher of the support teacher for English as an additional language has evolved in recent decades in response to changing ideologies, specific school contexts and local educational needs.
Bourne (1989) offers four definitions of a support teacher, based on her survey of local authority provision for bilingual learners: remedial, specialist, catalyst and good teacher. Current policy recommends collaborative teaching where English language support takes place in the mainstream education.
At this stage the teacher began to widen the children's options, giving them more choice. She also changed some of the existing choices, for example, by putting bubbles in the water and setting out printing rather than painting with a brush. During this time the teacher observed the children and made a mental note of the preferences they seemed to have in their tasks they undertook. She noted that Eleanor seemed to prefer opportunities to role of teacher play.
More focused observation of Eleanor revealed that she always chose the imaginative types of activity. Her favourite was the role of teacher play area and she especially enjoyed dressing up. She also joined in with all the singing and rhymes the teacher taught the class, memorising new songs and rhymes very quickly. She also liked to sing to an audience and was happy to have her voice recorded on to tape. The teacher noted that Eleanor was good at making up games when playing with plastic interlocking play people and was quite creative, giving each person a character and using them in an appropriate way. |
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