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.
It looks like you've identified a really important issue in your needs analysis, Sofi, and I'm sure that you can contribute a lot to the language institute where you will render your social service. I know that you already have experience with lesson planning from your courses in the BA, and you may want to look into some additional literature to help you to develop a suitable action plan. I'm sure that any insights that you can offer on lesson planning will be warmly welcomed by the other teachers at the institute.
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