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Wed, 29 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The Value of Encouragement in EFL Teaching A student learning English as a foreign language will likely find it difficult, slow, but ultimately rewarding. The key to success is experiencing these rewarding moments regularly throughout their English-learning journey. It can be hard to recognize your progress when learning a new language, and this can be demotivating. To overcome low motivation, regular 'rewards', or encouragement, can make it easier to notice milestones and remain motivated. Table of Contents A good learner is defined as being: Steps to High Level of Encouragement Working with various groups of students Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: Check out what our course grads say in...  [Read more]

Fri, 15 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Parents Being First Teachers In loco parentis is the perfect phrase to describe the teacher's role in the classroom and the responsibility they have towards their students. Young children spend many hours in the classroom – an atmosphere created primarily for learning, teaching, and socializing – and many more hours in the home – a different learning atmosphere inhabited largely by family members and, sometimes, friends. In a bygone era, the teacher's role was seen as sacred and their knowledge as unquestionable, in some cases; given that a majority of the pre-baby boomer population may have been uneducated, it was felt that their knowledge was not like the teacher's and therefore they trusted their children...  [Read more]

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas An Overview of Some Common Teaching Approaches The teaching techniques and approaches, as well as activities that teachers employ in teaching in the classroom, is known as teaching style (Cooper, 2001). Grasha (2002) defines teaching style as the continuous and steady actions of teachers in their relationship with students in the course of teaching-and-learning. Jarvis (2004) considers teaching style as containing "evidence of beliefs about values related to and attitudes toward all the elements of the teaching-learning exchange" (p. 40). Teachers' styles of teaching represent their behavior in the classroom. These definitions indicate that teaching styles are the methods, activities, and approaches that are employed by a teacher in...  [Read more]