INTERVIEW

1.    What is your name? Dita Adzivor

2.    When did you decide to become a teacher? When I was a teenager.

3. Why  an English teacher? Because English is my second language.

4. In addition to being an English Teacher. Do you have any other specialty?

No.

5.  How long ago did you finish your studies? It was in the year 2005.

6. How long have you been teaching education? Practically ever since then.

7. Which courses do you teach? Mostly primary and pre-school.

8. How many students do you have in your classroom? Do you think that a good learning can be performed with that number of students? Around 20. Ideal number is below 15.

9.   What your view on the Spanish educational system?  It is demanding in theoretical contents, lacks practical experience.

10. Can you tell what  the ideal education system would be? I don´t know. It is a difficult question.

11. What is the learning environment like in your classroom? I teach a big variety of lessons in different age groups.I work in the nursery with babies of 1-2 years upwards. So the environment there is based on game, easy nursery rhymes and songs and art.

In pre-school I work with 5 years old kids. We do the morning assemble.

In primary I teach extracurricular classes and Formativa where we prepare the pupils for 4LT- MOVERS exams.

12. How do you know if your students have understood the concepts and content worked? By feed back testing and questioning.

13. How do you change teaching methods if they have difficulty understanding or keeping up with the pace set? I try to visualise and keep repeating the concepts.

14. What do you value more, the process or the result of your students?

The process is the way to the result.

15. How do you create an environment that promotes learning in the classroom? I try to keep things simple, visual and attractive for the particular age-group.

16. Do you work  as part of a team? Yes.

17. Do you use new technologies? How? Yes. On daily basis (digital board).

18. Do you use other resources in addition to the textbook? Audio, video, interactive resources.

19. Do you work the CLIL methodology? Partly in extracurricular lessons.

20. Do you encourage imagination and creativity in the classroom? Yes. I like to            teach English and Art+Craft.

21. How do you communicate with the families of your students? In Spanish. Via            emails.

22. Do you  learn from your students? Yes.

23. Do you feel happy when you teach? Absolutly.

24. How would you like to be remembered by your students in the future? That              Dita taught us authentic English.

            25. What is the hardest  aspect of being a teacher?

It is very tiring. 25 lessons a week is not an easy job.