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Developing a Creative and Successful English Resource Cabinet
Organizing and finding creative ways to develop an English resource cabinet is a continual challenge for English teachers. This presentation reports the process of developing and setting up an English resource cabinet. It examines the importance of resources as seen by teachers and students. The research methods used include questionnaires and interviews. Some reasons to have resources are to engage students in learning and also that students’ levels are different. This requires additional materials to keep them interested in the lesson and supports teaching methods that are used in the classroom that undergird the four basic English skills. Results show that the English resource cabinet has helped users in many ways, including improving teaching methodology and more effectively engaging students in learning. In addition, the presenter will share the results that she discovered as she was developing her Resource Cabinet. The cabinet is continually being evaluated as she asks questions that give insight into needs. Through graphs and her research studies, the presenter will share how she developed her resource cabinet from when she began teaching—only a student’s book—to what has now been developed and how she is continually developing it. These methods include teacher and student input and observation. This presentation is useful for those interested in learning new and effective ways to develop an English resource cabinet and how they can evaluate their own resources in light of what they learn.
About Gereltuya Damdinsuren
Damdinsuren Gereltuya lives in Baruun-Urt, Sukhbaatar Province in eastern Mongolia. With 10 years of teaching experience, she works at a public school teaching English to 5th-12th grade students. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree of Education with an emphasis in English from Gurvan-Erdene University in Mongolia in 2007. In 2018, she received an online diploma of TESOL from Concordia International College in Canada. She received a Methodologist Degree in 2015 and a Mastership Degree in 2019 from the Ministry of Education in Mongolia. In November 2019, she completed the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Teaching English to Young Learners”.
