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Very
interesting and enlightening. Having been exposed to THRASS in the first few
weeks of school, I now can make sense of what I have seen. My question had been
‘how does one actually teach a THRASS lesson’? I now know how to teach it and
how to integrate it into all my other lessons. The course was well presented and
the resources are amazing and I am keen to see the results in my class. So I am
raring to go. Thank you Laola for the hard work you’ve put into teaching.
Very
thoroughly explained! I was left in no doubt as to what to do on the classroom.
Very
interesting and an eye opener. I am definitely going to implement what I learnt
and this is going to help my class to spell and read words. Laola was well
prepared and knows her stuff.
Having never
been involved with the above topic, I was a little sceptical. I was pleasantly
surprised and have realised that THRASS has a lot to offer. I found it both
refreshing and stimulating. It is certainly a fun way to learn.
The course
was quite helpful, especially in sounding words! New techniques in teaching
proper English. Good visual and thinking skills! Good approach and teaching
time, with my little ones! I am going to use those new skills. What a course! So
helpful!
This was a
well done programme and I have gained a lot, but I am a pre-school teacher
teaching 2-3 years, so I was kindly asking if we as pre-school teachers can get
more methods/ideas in pre-school children, where we can teach more than picture
location and games. Thank you Laola please call me again. I think I am going to
do my best to my 2-3 year old children.
All the
topics that we covered in THRASS were well explained. The methodology is like a
date stamp in my brains, which is going to make my lessons and teaching much
easier. The word THRASS is written and explained in sequential order as what all
teachers are expected to do in their lessons so as to make teaching more
effective and interesting. The process of handwriting, reading and spelling
skills shape the children as a whole including intellectually, emotionally and
socially.
Great, in
the sense that I learnt a lot, e.g. the sounds that letters say or make in
words. I know now that there are more than five vowels in the English language
or alphabet. I learnt that younger children learn better by seeing pictures on
the chart or cards. And that we have to tell children that one letter can do a
lot of jobs depending on where it finds itself and that one letter can make many
sounds. The new songs that had to go with the programme were great but to
mention a few.
Very useful,
having been shown a few lessons over the last month and getting extremely
confused. It is clearer now. I am looking forward to trying out the ideas.
Resources are wonderful, I am lucky enough to have them at my school but I feel
the programme will be very hard to work if you don’t have all the resources.
More work could be done on breaking up phonemes – I found that difficult.
Very
interesting and captivating. It enlightened me and built my classroom practise
to enable the participants to fully conceptualize the scheme. It’s a big
challenge that I need to put into practise and get the end results that have
been stipulated in the course.
I am
horrified to think that, through incorrect teaching methods used as a child I
have developed my own ‘Spelling scheme’ which has made sense to me but is
nonsense. The course has introduced me to sections of spelling and language I
did not know existed. I hope to use what I have learnt in conjunction with my
colleagues and of course the children. Thank you for this opportunity.
Having been
as ESL teacher for many years and using the IPA on a regular basis I found the
THRASS methodology a great help in dealing with foreign language speakers
phonetic learning problems, English not being a phonetic language as such. The
THRASS method has been well thought out and superbly planned, presented and put
into practise, THRASS gives children / learners much room to illicit, discuss
and rhythmic sound and touch learning is most innovative and ingenious, it is a
wonder it was not done many years earlier when I was in school and a great shame
it is the methodology of the present and the future. Thank you so much!
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