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Recommended: My personal philosophy in teaching with reflection

Introduction
In the following paragraphs I will discuss about one of my strengths I have observed during the CELTA Course as well as one of my areas of development for my future teaching practices. I have decided to focus my attention on two specific areas: eliciting and board organization; a strong and a weak point in my teaching practice respectively. I will address and analyze both of them separately, and I will explain a course of action to develop and improve such areas.
Strength
The CELTA Course gives us the opportunity to constantly observe ourselves as well as other English teachers in action and to receive feedback upon our performances. One of the most frequent positive points on my lessons is the use of elicitation. For instance, on my Teaching Practice (TP) 2, my tutor Ricardo pointed out that “[I made] good use of elicitation.” Also, my other tutor Linda, during the tutorial, told me that I have “a variety of elicitation techniques” and that “[I] elicit throughout the class.” Furthermore, my peers have also congratulated me for the way I elicit from students the information I need.
For Scott Thornbury (2011), eliciting “serves not only to maximize speaking opportunities, but to involve the learners actively in the construction of knowledge.” I do not like to give my students all the answers, and for this reason, I try to elicit as much information from them as possible. By doing so, I have noticed that my students take a more active role during class and become more independent. Hence, I will continue making my students participate instead of me giving them a lecture every class.

Area to work on
As previously stated, the CELTA Course does not only help us noticing our strengths, but it also makes us aware of our...

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...ammar, I will implement the use of anecdotes, real or fake, so my students can picture a scenario for the target language.
I am likewise aiming to give to my board a better use. As mentioned in section 3, I will follow Scrivener advice and will draw a board organization sketch for each stage of my lesson. By doing so, I would be able to know what to erase or leave on it. It might take a while for me to have a tidy board, but I will make sure it looks understandable for my learners.
 After CELTA
Once the course is finished, I will take the time to design a board organization template. This template will be used as guide for all my lessons and will help me to standardize the content of it. Obviously, I will take into account my students’ needs and the amount of information they can process at a time. I am sure this will result beneficial for them and for me as well.

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