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Teach English in LinshAnhe Zhen - Huanggang Shi

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Teaching offers the chance to change other people's lives permanently for the better. As a teacher you can help to develop somebody's subject knowledge and maybe even their mind and personality. Teaching is an incredibly rewarding thing to do and good teachers are needed everywhere: in schools and college classrooms to educate the young, as well as in the workplace and other settings to teach adults and colleagues. As well as subject knowledge, there are some other, more general qualities that teachers need. As a teacher, you should: First, enjoy communicating your understanding to students. There is definitely a performance element to most teaching where has covered up some important elements such as interpersonal skills, including effective speaking. Let me talk more detail about what is interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills are the skills we use every day when we communicate and interact with other people such as students and also the co-workers. Teachers with strong interpersonal skills are often more successful in both their professional and personal lives. Interpersonal skills include a wide variety of skills, though many are centered on communication, such as listening, questioning and understanding body language. They also include the skills and attributes associated with emotional intelligence, or being able to understand and manage your own and others emotions. Teachers with good interpersonal skills tend to be able to work well in a team or group, and with other people more generally. They are able to communicate effectively with others, whether family, friends, colleagues especially students. Speaking effectively is defined as speaking in such a way that your message is clearly heard and, if possible, acted upon. There are two main elements to speaking effectively: what you say, and how you say it. What you say means your choice of words. Similarly, the way that you speak will also vary in different situations. However, there are also likely to be some common factors: for example, whether you naturally talk quietly or loudly, and how you use body language to make sure the students able to understand what you are saying. Second, have self-confidence, it means having faith in yourself. This is a very basic need from a teacher. How well the lesson is going on and how effective the students able to master the topics of the lesson are always depend on the confidence from the teacher’s delivery. Moreover, confidence is also a result of our experiences and how we've learned to react to different situations that might happen on the students. Indirectly, the faith between the teacher and students will establish. Third, have great organizational skills. Organizing skills are really a combination of time management and self-motivation. As a teacher, you must be clear about what you need to prepare and do on the day’s lesson. You must have a personal to-do list. After this, the decision on when to complete the daily task in the list comes out. Without all these skills, the day’s lesson might be disorder. Next, there may be students who need to be told to work harder, or a disagreement between students that you need to help to sort out. Therefore, a teacher must be able to deal with conflict with the students. Every good story has a conflict. If there was no conflict, there would be no story. In stories, conflict advances the action and creates interest, but classroom conflict provides the opportunity for you to model appropriate conflict resolution strategies and teach students to cope when things do not go their way. Remember that conflict is natural, functional, and healthy. You can help provide students with the knowledge and skills it takes to effectively resolve a conflict. Having the students to stay motivation leads them to do their best in study. The two types of motivation for learning are intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic learning occurs when the student already has an interest in learning the subject and is inspired internally. However, extrinsic motivation occurs when other factors, such as a reward or recognition, drive them to participate in class. It is the teacher's responsibility to engage students in learning by tapping into intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Here are some skills to enhance the motivation mode of students. Foster a Positive Learning Environment Your personality sets the overall tone in the classroom. When you show enthusiasm and passion for the subject you're teaching, it can be contagious for most students, who will model your positive behavior. Besides teaching the curriculum, be a role model to reinforce positive actions to motivate students to learn. Ensure that classroom rules are detailed so students feel safe to participate and share their opinions and comments without ridicule. Feeling free to express themselves will encourage students to be engaged. Build Rapport With Students Students who have positive relationships with teachers are more engaged in learning. Conduct group discussions about subjects that interest them to uncover their personalities. Give surveys with questions about their favorite books, movies, hobbies and sports. Open up to your students as well about your background and interests to show you are genuinely interested in making connections. Prepare Engaging Lessons No matter the subject covered, find ways to make the material fun and exciting for your students. Facilitate student activities that give insight to their interests, backgrounds and future goals. Students often are unmotivated because they are bored. Grab their attention with stimulating music, art and hands-on activities to tune them in to the curriculum. For example, if you're delivering a lesson on poetry, play contemporary music and discuss poetic devices within the lyrics instead of just reading poems. Use technology, to liven up classroom activities. Give Students Options Each student learns differently and should have a variety of projects and activities to peak her interest. For example, instead of a written exam, give students a list of assignments to choose from, including writing an essay, delivering a presentation, and drawing art. By doing this, you address various learning styles, such as auditory, visual and tactile, helping students to participate in ways that are most natural to them. Start a Rewards Program Rewarding students reinforces positive behavior, and students eventually internalize a desire for learning. A rewards program includes giving praise to students for completing assignments and being active participants in classroom activities. Well-Rounded Assessment Well rounded assessment of classwork lets students know they have lots of opportunities to be successful. Teachers who master this skill have students who are eager to learn since they know they'll have many chances to do well. Well-rounded assessment involves providing different types of projects and tests so that each kind of learner recognizes something in which they excel. Teaching skills in this are require the teacher to understand his or her students at the beginning of the year. Using prior-year records, standardized tests and notes from former teachers help get things off to a good start and have students learning on the very first day. Classroom Management Skills Classroom management, although not something teachers convey to students, creates a place where students can learn. Classroom management involves knowing the students well and placing them into appropriate learning groups. It also involves having an efficient discipline plan in place that student understand. This gives a clear picture of the teacher's expectations and places the emphasis on rewarding good behavior instead of punishment. Classroom management also deals with the use of time throughout the day. Students need to be on task, with very little down time, for the day to run smoothly. Good classroom management means planning well and including both physical activity and independent study to foster good habits in students. Professional Development Professional development in the area of teaching skills is a must for any teacher wanting to create a positive environment for learning. Professional development challenges teachers to think "outside the box" when it comes to instruction and classroom management. Education is constantly evolving; teachers who commit to the craft of teaching find a more rewarding teaching experience and students who are eager to learn. Mindset The mindset you bring to your classroom every day is paramount. You can have the best training and attend conferences around the country but still be crippled with how you approach teaching and connecting with your students. This might be a bold statement, but we don’t need to teach kids as much anymore as we need to allow them to learn. Your students still need you, they just need you in different ways. With the right mindset, you enter the learning experience with your students, not as the one who knows all the information, but as the one who is going to create an environment in which kids are free to play, explore, and try new things. Be open to trying a new approach with a lesson even if you’re not 100% sure how the new technology works or even how it’s going to turn out. If you wait until you’re completely ready, there’s a good chance it will never happen. We get busy, a new student is starting class tomorrow, your child at home is sick and you can’t stay after school to plan curriculum, and the list goes on. Teach the idea for the main concept of the lesson, and allow your students to choose how they go about deepening their own learning with the tools that are on-hand in the classroom. You’re still the curriculum expert, but you don’t need to be a tool expert as well. Any behavior problems you had in your class are going to minimize or completely go away, because kids won’t have time to act out– they’ll be too engaged in the lesson. You’re going to have more time on your hands, so you can connect with kids, build stronger relationships, work with intervention groups, be a happier teacher, and enjoy more time in your personal life as well. Humor This may sound like a funny teaching skill, but it’s important on many levels. Teaching is a fun job, but it’s challenging too. If you don’t have a sense of humour, you’re not going to last very long. If you’re entering the profession for the first time, don’t think it’s always going to be smooth sailing. You’re going to have plenty of good times throughout your career, and your ability to adapt and laugh at the rough times is what will really get you though. If a student does something absolutely off-the-wall in class, take care of the situation in the moment, and laugh about it later. Take your job as an educator very seriously, just don’t take yourself too seriously, that’s key to longevity as a teacher. That's all. Thank you.


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