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What is a good TEFL Teacher? - Coggle Diagram
What is a good TEFL Teacher?
The Opinion of the Students is the most important
What's the essence of a good teacher?
BE PASSIONATE
TELF is a job that
Can take you around the world
Requires creativity and dexterity
It gives you autonomy
BE INTERESTING
Stemming from your passion should be
Fun and interesting lessons
Humour
Is a key part of this
You need a sense of it to be a teacher
This means
Not taking yourself too seriously
Having fun with the language
BE KNOWLEDGEABLE
There are many things that you will never know about the English Language
Is a student asks a question that you can't inmediately answer
Be humble enough to say so
Offer to teach it at the next lesson
Remember
The names of the students
Recognize
The students as individuals
BE CLEAR
People often wonder how you can teach English as a foreign language
Unless you can speak the mother tongue of your students
Answer
You have to be clear
Your Lessons
Should be easily understood
Your Instructions
Should be manageable
BE PATIENT
Students
May make the same mistakes over and over again
You may be teaching the same lesson for the 100% time
You should have the same patience as if it was the first time
The most important is
Keeping on learning
Putting into practice new methods