VII. THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE

VII. THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE

In our teaching practice classes, we used some tools that helped us so much to teach, and they are the following.

*Board games: this tool was very useful in our classes because children payed attention and they showed interest in the class, this tools worked very well.

*Toys: this tool is one of the most useful because children like playing with toys. We used this tool in order to teach little kids because they understand and feel excited to learn new things; also, toys help teacher connect the child´s world outside the classroom to what is happening inside the classroom.

*Wallcharts:  also it was very useful and important because the kids felt happy when they saw the draws that was on the charts and they can know the name of objects, animal, and other things.

*English corner: It is another important tool because children felt happy when they started to see all the chart that the teacher used in the class stuck on the wall, and if they do not remember something they only went to the english corner in order to remember the things they had forgoten.

Useful	useless
Puppets	Class mascot
Paper dolls	Card board boxes
English corner	Word sentence cards
Pictures cards	Word card display (flexible order)
Card games	Word displays (inflexible order)
Transparencies	Book reading cards
Calendar
Clock

We classified the tools in useful and in useless.

The tools we classified as useful are very important and easy to put into practice with little kids as these tools are easier to understand for little kids because they are not ver complex, and little kids feel more confortable, pay more attention and obviously learn better.

We classified the tools in useless because sometimes these tools ca be very complex and children can turn bored because of that tools, sometimes children are not accustomed to things that are complex and they do not pay attention and the classes turn boring. The classes can turn boring because teacher uses complex tools and sometimes these tools do not help children in their learning because they do not understand what to do.

We as teachers have to find and apply tools that are suitable for the age of the children in this way they are going to learn very well what we are teaching.