He tells us a lot of useful and interesting things. I have tried to summarize them and here they are:
In class you are the captain of your boat. Your strengths and weaknesses that you take on to your boat are the things you will have to deal with. That's why he recomends to do an TOEFL course. It's required for working in english academys or english schools.
To learn on the job. Well, I think is here where the practice appears! You'll have to take up problem-solution approach and deal with situations as an elementary student in an uper-intermediate class, what could you do to be sure that no one is feeling like a fish out of water? Now is when your teaching skills are put into accion! You'll need a text book to feed everyones solutions but also individualize classes to make them more entertaining and dinamic changing things a bit. Maybe in this way you could keep students under your toes.
A double chek is important to make sure that you are doing the right thing.
Steve reminds us that teaching can be fun but it also has ups and downs, ins and outs. Actually it requires a lot of work. Try to be patience to yourself establishing a determinate number of hours to teach and leave a day for planning and researching materials. If you teach too much it's going to have an impact on your teaching. You are going to make mistakes and that won't benefit you!
You have the responsability to teach each day something new and something students need. But remember 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink'. That's why you don't have to feel bad if a particular student isn't learning. To learn is also student's responsability.
Steve thinks that your number one problem is to get the students to learn english and advance. I also believe is our number one goal. Well, perhaps is the same thing but from a different point of view... Is there where we want to reach and it isn't easy. 'Don't lose track of what your goal is' and if it is the right one you will succeed, I'm sure.
We have been students too, don't forget that side of the story...
In class you are the captain of your boat. Your strengths and weaknesses that you take on to your boat are the things you will have to deal with. That's why he recomends to do an TOEFL course. It's required for working in english academys or english schools.
To learn on the job. Well, I think is here where the practice appears! You'll have to take up problem-solution approach and deal with situations as an elementary student in an uper-intermediate class, what could you do to be sure that no one is feeling like a fish out of water? Now is when your teaching skills are put into accion! You'll need a text book to feed everyones solutions but also individualize classes to make them more entertaining and dinamic changing things a bit. Maybe in this way you could keep students under your toes.
A double chek is important to make sure that you are doing the right thing.
Steve reminds us that teaching can be fun but it also has ups and downs, ins and outs. Actually it requires a lot of work. Try to be patience to yourself establishing a determinate number of hours to teach and leave a day for planning and researching materials. If you teach too much it's going to have an impact on your teaching. You are going to make mistakes and that won't benefit you!
You have the responsability to teach each day something new and something students need. But remember 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink'. That's why you don't have to feel bad if a particular student isn't learning. To learn is also student's responsability.
Steve thinks that your number one problem is to get the students to learn english and advance. I also believe is our number one goal. Well, perhaps is the same thing but from a different point of view... Is there where we want to reach and it isn't easy. 'Don't lose track of what your goal is' and if it is the right one you will succeed, I'm sure.
We have been students too, don't forget that side of the story...
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Steve is a clever man... I think the main thing is students really want to learn (english or whatever). If they dont, they wont. But, it is a task of the teacher to motivate to his students...
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