As I am a nine-year-experienced English teacher and a researcher interested in professional development, I prefer to benefit from my teaching experience and my sharings with my colleagues. Based on the ADDIE model (Dick & Carey, 1978), I have decided to design an online platform for teachers.
As a kindergarten English teacher, I remember having troubles in scaffolding the students who are slow learners and/or have some learning difficulties. Scaffolding in a second language was even much more difficult for me, but I suppose that it is not an easy process for teachers, though. Moreover, when I was a kindergarten English teacher, I was inexperienced because that was my first job, which made everything a little bit more complicated.
Another factor that made me have difficulties in scaffolding my students is that I learnt by-the-book rules and methods during my undergraduate years. All the recommendations or techniques written in the books are one-size-fits-all; however, within the years, I have learnt that each classroom context is different, and so are learners' needs.
I have concluded that there is a huge gap between the cases given in the books and the problems occurring in real life. Therefore, I am planning to design an online platform where both in-service and pre-service teachers can share their ideas.
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