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How to teach English - Coggle Diagram
How to teach English
How to be a good teacher
What makes a good teacher? Someone who cares more abt student's learning than their teaching
Make lessons interesting
Love her job => Make lessons more interesting
Have their own personality and doesn't hide it from the students => make students interested in your personality
Have a lot of knowledge, not only of his subject
Become an entertainer, bc students love being entertained and amused => strike a balance between entertaining and teaching
Sometimes it's not about the teacher, it's about the relationship between the teacher and students
Students can talk to teacher when they have problems with understanding the subject
Understand students' hopes, aspirations and difficulties
Draw out the quiet ones and control the more talkative ones
Correct people without offending them
Help rather than shout
Know student's name
How should teachers talk to their children
Exaggerated tones of voice, speak with less complex grammar structures than they would if they were talking to adult
How should teacher give instructions?
as simple as possible + logical
ask a student to explain the activity/ getting someone to show the class how the exercise works
Who should talk in class
Good teacher maximizes STT and minimizes TTT
Good TTT could play the role of "comprehensive input"
What are the best kinds of lesson?
Greatest enemies of successful teaching is student boredom
Teachers need to violate their own behavior patterns. Each time they break their own rules, they send a ripple through the class
Variety is not the same as anarchy => Find a balance between predictable safety and unexpected variety
How important it is to follow a pre-arranged plan?
A lot of situations could happen and mess up the plan => teacher have to be flexible enough bc the focus is on the students' learning, not on their teaching
How to be a good learner
How important is students' motivation?
Highly motivated students learn better
For those who are not motivated, teacher need to provoke their interest and involvement by their choice of topic, attitude to class participation, their humor and seriousness