LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE

ACTIVITY 3 

NEEDS ANALYSIS

Leeds United Language School.

I will present my Social Service at Leeds United Language School that is a private school. After following the needs analysis I found out that they teach general English for kids, young and adult people and business English for companies. The makeup of the students is three minimum and seven maximum in the general English and it provides personalized business classes inside or outside the school as well. The school provides technological devices such as Videos, computers, internet, printers and audio books; they organize conversational clubs where students can improve the speaking area.  They use lesson plans provided by the books. After interviewing the teachers I noticed the lack of lesson planes create them by the own teachers, they usually take the lesson plans provided by the books, I consider necessary to implement lesson plans formats for each class create them for the teachers according to their student´s needs using Benjamin´s Bloom taxonomy where teachers can improve the cognitive, affective and psychomotor in their classes and follow a formal track in their performance in class.

According to the school´s coordinator she mentioned that they try to invest time in developing the communicative skills to the students especially for adult students who find difficult to manage the oral skill successfully. 

In my social service I am planning to improve my teaching in all areas for all levels. However, I am also interested in working with my colleges and the coordinator and provide as much information as possible about the importance and benefits of doing lesson plans by teachers and including them in the teacher´s report or the studies program inside of the institution. The use of the material is another point that I would like to improve in my teaching, sometimes teacher do not invest in this area because of the time but it is important to reflect about it in order to provide quality and variety in the teaching practice.

I really hope that all the knowledge that I have received in this BA could help to the institutions where I am doing my social service and I am look forward to sharing my ideas with my colleges in the school.

Activity 1. Identification of Academic Goals

My reflection when I completed the questionnaire was very positive. I did not realize that I have covered a lot of important aspects in my teaching experience. My teaching life has been very constructive not only in my professional life but also in the personal one. I still remember when I was a child and my favorite game was to perform the role of a teacher or a business woman, it sounds funny but both roles I am performing them successfully so far.  

 It is true that there are aspects that I need to improve in the teaching area for example; to figure it out about which materials are suitable for my students and implement more and active techniques in where my students will be able to follow in an easily way their L2 learning . I also would like to implement enjoyable and meaningful classes where my students feel happy about what they have learned, and where they can use the language in a functional way. I am pretty sure that all the aspects that I need to improve in my teaching I am going to complete them pretty soon, meanwhile I am updating and studying so hard in my bachelor in order to reach my professional goal.