{"id":421,"date":"2015-07-26T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T16:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2019-01-18T22:54:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T03:54:02","slug":"16-final-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=421","title":{"rendered":"16. Final Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you done studying from all the materials here are some general tips outline from all the modules on how to be an effective TESOL teacher.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don\u2019t sweat the small stuff<\/li>\n<li>Learn to be a good actor<\/li>\n<li>Form supportive relationships with colleagues<\/li>\n<li>Display student work and decorate<\/li>\n<li>Find out what students already know<\/li>\n<li>Establish rules and procedures on DAY 1<\/li>\n<li>Have a plan provide a agenda<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared to make changes to or scrap lesson plan<\/li>\n<li>Focus on verb vocab<\/li>\n<li>Get to know your Grammar<\/li>\n<li>Get to know your students culture<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t assume the class textbook will work<\/li>\n<li>Go from controlled (Whole Class) to less controlled (Pairs\/Groups) activities<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t neglect to teach listening<\/li>\n<li>Turn regular activities into games or competition<\/li>\n<li>Motivate students with daily variety<\/li>\n<li>BE OVERLY PREPARED<\/li>\n<li>Focus on communication on students needs<\/li>\n<li>Repeat review reflect (3 Rs)<\/li>\n<li>Engage Study Activate<\/li>\n<li>Know thy students. Personalize content<\/li>\n<li>Make some of your own classroom materials<\/li>\n<li>Use humor use song get along<\/li>\n<li>Circulate around the class and don&#8217;t have class \u2018Pets\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Show interest in their native language<\/li>\n<li>Speak normally and avoid \u2018Teacher Talk\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t talk too much and let them speak<\/li>\n<li>Teach for differing learning styles<\/li>\n<li>Be enthusiastic be a coach<\/li>\n<li>Do not over correct<\/li>\n<li>Point students to learning resources outside the classroom<\/li>\n<li>Make a community using: website, newspaper, social network, blog, wiki, podcast, radio show, clubs<\/li>\n<li>Keep in \u2018Teaching Shape\u2019 by ongoing professional development, conferences\/courses and teacher groups<\/li>\n<li>Have a life outside the classroom<\/li>\n<li>Be reflective<\/li>\n<li>Test course content and not intelligence<\/li>\n<li>\u2018KISS\u2019 Keep it simple, stupid<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you done studying from all the materials here are some general tips outline from all the modules on how to be an effective TESOL teacher. Don\u2019t sweat the small stuff Learn to be&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":247,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions\/752"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}