#8 The syllabus: our notebook.

I would like to explain you what means The syllabus. I studied it last year and it was very interesting and useful for my future as a teacher.

Syllabus is a document where the teacher writes what he/she wants to teach during the course and the objectives that he / she wants to fulfil. Common characteristics of a syllabus is that the cover page has explicit objectives of the course, an ordered list of components what the teacher wants to do with their respective contents and methods to carry out. Another characteristic of the syllabus is that it is a public document and it can be used in others context and not only in the school.

I believe that all teachers should do their own syllabus and thus, they can decide what they want to teach, how teaching and why they teach it. It is a good idea to order the contents from the easiest to the most difficult so that the children in that way can improve their learning step by step and it then becomes more overcome. In my opinion this kind of document is great and useful for the new teachers because it includes some material that’s is good to do in the classroom, different methods and activities to do and you can use it to make up an idea of how you have to prepare yourself, how to put everything together, simply how to carry it out. 

There are distinct types of language within syllabus such as, grammatical lexical, grammatical-lexical, situational, notional, functional-notional, mixed or multi-strand procedural and process.

For example, in the syllabus situational, pupils study the language using real-life contexts such as in the street, eating a meal. These are examples of complete sentences that are used in class day to day and its structure does not change.

This type of programming has advantages and disadvantages. Most teachers can get tired of the syllabus and follow the task from the course book because making a syllabus takes away part of their free time and maybe, a syllabus does not work as a motivation of learning for every specific kind of group and class of pupils. I agree with this statement because most teachers follow the course book and do not think about what would be better for children to learn and what the pupils can use outside of school, so therefore I believe that teachers as much as possible should use the syllabus way in their teaching. 

Clara ***