Sponsor Four English Teachers from Mexico

Teacher Kassandra from Campeche, Mexico, is one of the 192 teachers trained in 2017. These 192 teachers will impact 69,636 students in Mexico. 

This is Kassandra’s experience:

I am so grateful because I had the opportunity to know about the Rassias Method® by participating in IAPE and it has been an amazing experience that has made a big change in my life as an English teacher and also in my students´ lives.

I would like to mention that after almost a year working with this method I had the opportunity to get more knowledge that made me reflect on my way of thinking, about how to teach. Also, it helped me to open my mind and develop new ideas to modify, adapt and improve the strategies, techniques, and activities in order to help my students to be successful in their learning process.

Furthermore, I was able to realize that this method has helped me to promote active participation in my classes; especially because one of the main issues in most of the Mexican public schools is the lack of participation during the class. It gave me the support I needed by making my students fit in and motivate them. Additionally, the Rassias Method assists my students to learn by integrating their previous knowledge with the school curriculum. It creates new experiences for my students to have.

This method reminded me that it is important to take into account the fact that I have in my classroom a diversity of students with different individual characteristics, learning styles, needs, and backgrounds and it is more important than ever to find ways of providing equitable educational opportunities for all learners. So, as teacher, I had to integrate all of these aspects to design better lesson plans with the appropriate activities that made easier the teaching-learning process.

Moreover I have applied most of the techniques I learned such as “drills,” “first two letters,” “micrologue,” “pyramid,” and soon, I comprehended that a favorable learning environment allows me to build the students’ confidence and at the same time provide them with the opportunities to participate in classes.

Also, it is important to mention that when I implemented the Rassias Method in my classroom I faced some challenges such as the huge number of students in the group and the low English level of the students so I had to adapt the activities according to their level. Finally, I want to mention that the Rassias Method had a positive impact and very good results in my students and they really enjoy learning through this method. I will continue working with it, so that I can provide the students an education of quality because I know I am teaching today’s students for tomorrow’s world.

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