Be a GREAT English Teacher by Mastering These 15 Skills

There is a lot to learn if you want to teach English well. These are the 15 most important skills Language teachers should work on to be great in the classroom.
A tremendous amount of time in teacher training is spent on the academic side of teaching, while most of the core teaching skills are ignored.
In reality, your lessons will shine or fade depending on the specific skills and techniques you employ in class.
In the video, we cover, Creative Material Creation, STT (Student Talking Time), Engaging Students, Pace & Flow, Eliciting, and a host of other concepts.

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Timestamp
00:00 Intro
00:41 The Language House
01:02 Creative Materials
01:17 Fluentize
02:22 STT
02:55 Engage Students
03:30 Teacher Voice
04:10 Add Humor
05:06 Eliciting
05:56 CCQing
06:45 Demoing
07:33 Only English
08:05 Monitoring
09:00 Error Correction
09:46 Pace & Flow
10:21 Classroom Manag.
11:06 Reaching Goals
12:50 Empathy

[TheLanguageHouseTEFL]

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[AhmetElhann]

Chris, these are amazing tips. I do feel more confident in teaching since I started following your channel. I can try my best to practice these tips but "only L2" is the most challenging one for me. I teach at a vocational high school and the level is almost on the ground. Next week new semester is going to begin, and this year I will be more determined in terms of following these tips. Once again, thank you very much.
Ahmet from Türkiye 🙋🏻

[TheChurlishBoor]

When I started teaching, I found that once I began to analyse the language more deeply, such as understanding what "be" actually means and when...
Then there was a whole universe of material and perspectives to explore with the students!

From the macro levels down to the micro-levels, through to figuring out how to graphically depict grammar (as a tool to represent situations accurately, rather than it being just a mindless set of parroted rules), and so much more.

My point is, teachers can get out of tricky situations by figuring out, in depth, when not in the classroom. what it actually "is" that they are actually teaching about, using words.

Seeing a student understand that "big" actually means "using a lot of space", and "bigger" means "using more space", and then "the biggest" means "using the most space", instead of just parroting the words "big", "bigger", "the biggest" - is extremely gratifying.

*_What do English words actually refer to?_*
It's a big question that is not answered by simply parroting dictionaries. It is a thought exercise that enriches the teacher's own understanding and philosophy, quite profoundly.
And one that leads to a myriad of options of ideas, and activities, when inexperienced teachers get stuck.

[roslynmorgan]

Another very helpful and easy to follow video. I love the way you get right to the points involved! Thanks!

[HandyLearning]

CCQ ing is worthy enough for me, having watched this vid. Great work. Congrats!!

[adamode-wk]

Hello home teacher here from Tokyo, nice to meet you…❤

[SaikinDou]

Thank you Chris!! So so helpful as always

[misimiki]

You offer some great tips. I'm not sure if you listed them in any order of priority, but I think you could rearrange the order a bit. For example, I think that setting the goal of the class should be much higher up the list, and it is a natural segue into student engagement.

[dollslifefiction]

Hello from Madagascar, I love your videos. Thank you for that great sharing ❤🥰

[rohannair]

Great Video loved it so much, your energy and gestures trully makes me listen the whole video ^-^

[pratibhatondse]

I like the way you teaching, thank you very much,
❤ From India....

[Gisoo]

Hey❤
Idk you're gonna see this comment or not ....
But .... I wanna say thank you so much
I have been studying English since i was 5 and now im 21 and i wanna teach ❤😅its 6 months i have been starting teaching but i faced plenty problems these days which i don't know how solve it
Now i think my ming is so clear
I feel like my selfconfidence ame back😂❤

[gabrielgkabelen]

Thank you Chris, greetings from Indonesia.

[arslanzahid]

Hello sir! I have masters in English literature and teaching at a Private college, I have been stuck in my career, Now I have decided to polish my skill by doing different course and I chose TESOL or TEFL for my personal grooming, Kindle suggest me any online platform for it also tell me about authenticity of Coursera & World TESOL Academy.

[depaula_rodrigo]

Hi Chris! I teach ESL in Brazil. My classes are all online with only one student at a time. Private English lessons for adults. I've been an ESL teacher for 7 years, and been doing my thing online for three.

Do you have any resources on that? I'd love to improve.

I'd love to pay for some feedback on my classes. They work fine, but I know there is room to improve.

[kyametyaklasyor]

I wouldnt constructed this sentence mistakenly had i known Chris more before

[BenaddiSoufiane]

wow thanks for this lesson i just wander about how can I master voice

[Mendo_Mars]

Great video but for the love of the language gods please change the music and make it not so damn loud 😭

[fsgrjfq]

Where were you all my life, kind sir? 💙🍊

[jkeducationfactory]

Hii
I'm from India . How I can start my teaching career to abroad students online.