TEACHING TIPS

To help children when learn a new language teachers should:

1. Use English in class as the main language for communication.
2. Use gestures, actions and pictures to help children understand you.
3. Use gestures, actions and pictures to help children understand you.
4. Children need to talk in order to learn - let children use their mother tongue for communication especially to star with.
5. Recast in English what children say to you in their mother tongue.
6. Answer children in English.
7. Use their mother tongue for support when you do a new activity or if no one understand.
8. Talk a lot in English, they need to hear English.

REMEMBER:

- The more English the children hear, the more they will learn.

- They will learn gradually. Encourage them by responding positively.

- Use their mother tongue for support when you do a new activity.

PRACTICAL HINTS FOR TEACHERS ON CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE

These are some hints for classroom discipline:

1. Start by being firm with students.
2. Get silence before you star speaking.
3. Know and use students' names.
4. Prepare lessons thoroughly.
5. Walk around the class.
6. Maintain interest and curiosity.
7. Speak clearly.
8. make sure your instructions are clear.
9. Have extra material prepared.
10. Look at the class directly when speaking.
11. Make work appropriate to pupils age, abilily, cultural background...
12. Developed the art of timing you lesson.
13. Vary your teaching teachniques.
14. Anticipate discipline problems and act quickly.
15. Avoid confrontations.
16. Clarify fixed rules and standards.
17. Show yourself as supporter and helper.
18. Use humour.
19. Choose topics that will activate students.
20. Be warm and frendly.

An interesting web to have a look: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/discipline.html

AN IDEAL ENGLISH TEACHER

In my opinion an ideal English teacher should be:

- Good communicator. He/she is going to be transmiting, not only speaking.

- Resilient. Consist on performing in different ways. Offer different needs to each student.

- Good command of English. Not only take a dregre, a good teacher should be up to date. Should be known about the different techiques, different ways to teach... not only know the language. Not been a pasive teacher we are involving all the time an a good teacher should know about the changes. Enrich your knowledge.

- A good teacher has to like what he/she is teaching, otherwise students are going to bored and you are not going to motivate them, because you don't like what you are doing. A good teacher should be in love with his/her proffesion, because if you are in love with your proffesion, you can do anything. Be patient.