Teachers' Autonomy
M Most course-books are written for international distribtion. The authors certainly can’t know about each teacher’s country, teachiing institution and learners. Even locally produced course-books are probably written by authors who don’t know each specific school or learners. Of course, the book can provide teachers with all the useful resources they need most deeply for their teaching process. However only teachers who know enough about their teaching institution, learners… can respond fully to their specific teachiung conditions and their learners’ real needs, interests and personalities.Therefore, it’s only teachers who have the ability to bring coursebook materials to life and make them work appropriately in the classroom. classroom
A Atruly successful teacher is the one who has the ability to adapt, supplement or even to replace the whole coursebook activity. Adapting is to come up with the necessary changes to make the course –book activities at the level of the learners. Supplementing – on the other hand – is to add some other activities to the ones suggested in the course-book, if the teacher feels that the pupils still need more practice. The third option is to replace the whole activities with teachers’ own ones to make a kind of parallel between their learners’ level, needs, interests and the assigned activities.s
T Teachers- with a sense of autonomy- have to get enough materials, to select the most appropriate ones and finally to implement them the right way.y