Interview information
Organization responsible for the interview: p-consulting.gr
Country: Greece
Occupation: English & French teacher
Small bio / CV:
Nazela is a graduate of the Ionian University of Corfu in the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation & Interpreting and she is a certified teacher of both English and French. She has a 14-year experience in teaching and is currently tutoring students of all ages.
Date of the Interview: 04.04.2024
Short Summary of the interview:
Nazela doesn’t usually go by the textbook. She tries to find topics that students are interested in and focuses a big part of their lessons on that. An example of this is when a student was interested in cooking, and so they studied recipes.
When she deals with ADHD students, she tries to redirect their energy towards the lesson.
She uses a variety of means to help her students, such as videos, songs, picture books. Her goal is for her students to be able to express themselves in the target language and not to just fill in exercises in the books.
Nazela doesn’t like grading students. She tries to be descriptive about the work they do and explain where they need to try a little harder.
Most important statement
“Children should not be excluded, no matter what their difficulty is. Perhaps on some occasions smaller groups of students would be of more help. But as a general rule, teachers should try to accommodate all students”.
