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10 Skills That A Good English Teacher Needs - Coggle Diagram
10 Skills That A Good English Teacher Needs
Excellent English pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar skills
Your students need to be able to understand what you say and trust your grammar.
Confidence and skills to give motivating and interesting lessons to your students
You have to put on a show to get your students focusing on your lesson and keep their interest.
Develop your own teaching materials
Teachers who create great materials are popular with their students and get great feedback.
Assessment
Only by assessing students properly can teachers help them to fill gaps in their knowledge and help them to learn best.
Reflecting on your own practice and micro teaching
You can do this by reflecting on your own lessons and practice, and also by micro teaching, which we do to help everyone on a teacher training course here at the Galway Cultural Institute.
Mastery of your subject
If you’re teaching specialist subjects in English, you need the vocabulary to be able to enthuse students and help them learn, whether in science, maths, history or geography.
Use technology in the classroom
Interactive screens, websites and apps are part of a teacher’s job. It’s vital to be able to use them properly and help students to do so.
Keep up to date with the latest methods and theories for English teachers
It’s important to keep on learning about the latest theories on teaching and use these to update your practice.
Gain new practical skills
Set yourself apart from other English teachers by having a useful specialism that could be in demand where you’d like to work.
Get equipped to teach at the right level
You might have to give lectures and presentations, create academic documents and understand how to write articles for publication.