Teacher Alessandra´s homework: "Teaching Grammar"

The article "Teaching Grammar", by Jeremy Harmer defends the idea of approaching grammar through a realistic way. He says that we, teachers, should give students what and need; but especcially we need to know about the grammar we are asking our students to learn. According to Harmer, we need to know what we´re talking about, but not be afraid to have to study areas we are less sure of.
Jeremy Harmer stresses that we need to respect our students' own attitudes whilst not, thereby , automatically abandoning our own approaches. Jeremy reinforces the idea that we should be pragmatic in our choice of grammar activity depending on the level and type of our students and, on the type of grammar under consideration.
Like Harmer said very well " Teachers are not perfect" and definitely we have to be able to acknowledge that we don´t have all the information at our fingertips but that we will either find a good answer or refer students to where that information can be found. Students will end up respecting us far more than teachers who invent spurious explanations which are later seen to be unreliable.
I agree with the author and I conclude saying more once a time that we, teachers should teach grammar based on our students' needs, to be always getting ready to learn and choose the best way to deal with the barriers to teaching grammar. Motivation and interaction is a good invitation!