Steps to Design Material

Steps to design material

Techniques of Material Design

This portfolio is a compendium of several researches about how you can teach and create your own material for the class. It is important to know what the spectators are and what is their behavior towards your material. For this reason, you must know all the characteristics or ways to develop a didactic class and overall, that you can be sure that your students understand and apply this knowledge.

First of all, I learn to create a survey to find out the needs of the students. This implement help us to understand the likes or dislikes that the students have and then I can build a strategy to learn English language quickly.

Also, we notice the importance of evaluating a book. I mean, we made a check list to qualify a book to search and find a suitable book. I evaluate items like if the book develops the four skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking. Moreover, the book must have interaction with technological elements because the students are linked at this time with this. 

Above all, how I can analyze the content’s book, and if it is so suitable with the likes and needs of the students. This is very important, because the book is an initial motivation for them and a very useful tool for us.

Besides, we learn about the 4 stages and the activities for each one. For example: the stage1, it is for people who start knowing the language emphasize in keys words, learning by Deixis and pictures and theirs answers are yes or not. In the stage 2 the students could be make simple yes/ no questions, improve their pronunciation singing a song and practice a lot listening and reading exercises and so on with the others. Every time the students can develop more and more skills not only receptive if not also productive skills.

The book Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching we was an excellent tool to learn about the methodologies and different ways to teach. The book is divided into chapters and each one explains a method with their principles and techniques. 

What I like so much, it was the way that each chapter shows us the techniques, I mean with examples and activities. This does, that the book was so understandable.

It is for this reason that I think, that produces our own material it is so hard because we spend a lot of time planning, selecting, evaluating and making the material for a class. This is a big disadvantage for creating own material compared to the material public in the web and you just copy and that’s it. But when you create your own material, you can develop a lot of creative ways to teach and you learn a lot too, that’s why you research very much indeed.

According with the text Guidelines for Designing Effective English Language Teaching Materials by Jocelyn Howard There are some factors to consider when design materials:

·         The material must be focused in the interests, motivations, likes and dislikes levels and skills that the learners have.

·         The Material should follow to the curriculum and the context, goals, objectives, useful skills to life.

·         The teacher has to innovate, to be creative. We must be realistic about what they can achieve in terms of resources such as computers, cameras, photocopier etc.

·         The teacher needs to be sure and efficient about their materials development.

·         The material has to be legal. I mean, the material needs to have copyright compliance. No fraud.

For all these reasons I would support the view that the teachers decide to create their own material have to be clear that create and demonstrate that its methodology is applied and works, besides that, the students are encourage every day in your class, that they learn easily and you can show all your effort to bring out that you are the best teacher.

This signature is the most indicate to guide us how I can make excellent materials for my class with a planning and creativity also researching all of the topics not only I will teach if not the technique that I will use.