Help for English Teachers
Practical experience in the classroom -- and the practice of reflection about that experience -- is, as any veteran teacher will attest, the best teacher of teachers. New English teachers soon realize that the teaching of English requires of them the teaching of a variety of skills crucial for their students' eventual emergence as scholars and contributing members of the communities in which they live. These skills include reading, writing, listening, and speaking in small-and-large group discussions.
In fact, the primary burden for teaching two of the three Rs falls on the shoulders of the English educator. And when a teacher is new to the profession, and must still learn how to manage a classroom successfully so that students have an environment in which learning can take place, as well as wrestling with all the paperwork involved, a new English teacher can very soon feel overwhelmed.
We at Telemachos Publishing remember quite clearly our initial experiences in the classroom and, to be frank, there was little in required education courses that prepared us sufficiently for the realities of teaching English. It is our belief that the texts we publish do help rectify that situation and provide for the new English teacher a secure foundation that, when fortified through experience, will be of great aid to that teacher's ultimate success.
