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How to Be a Good English Teacher

English teachers have an important job. They teach students how to read and write well, how to understand what they read, how to learn from their peers, and how to have productive and challenging conversations. Being a successful English teacher can be difficult, but there are steps you can take to improve, so that both you and your students get more out of your time in the classroom.

Part 1

Developing Lesson Plans

1 - Choose material that will interest your students. While classics like Moby Dick are incredibly important historically and have a lot of literary value, they can be too long, boring, and seemingly irrelevant to hold your students' interest for long. Instead, assign shorter or more contemporary works, or works that you know your students will enjoy.

• Look for literary or academic merit in unlikely places: even a zombie apocalypse novel like Colson Whitehead's Zone One deals with challenging and important topics that perfectly complement a classic like Hemingway's In Our Time while still remaining relevant to modern audiences.

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10 Good Reasons not to Correct Students

• The teacher’s involvement would interrupt the flow of pair work or a group activity.

• The error can be addressed momentarily by back tracking a little bit.

• The student can somehow be prompted to self correct their own error[Read Deeper: How to Push Students to Self Correct Their Own Mistakes]

• The error made goes significantly beyond the student’s current capabilities in English.

• The error shows they don’t understand a language point you plan to teach in the future.

• The error is fossilized, student is well aware of the error, pointing it out would only frustrate them.

• The student showed great improvement in another aspect of their answer and you want to give them a clear win.

• Correcting the error may knock their confidence in the current situation.(They are already having a bad day, uncomfortable speaking in front of the class, etc.)

• The focus of the lesson is on listening or reading comprehension, not on accuracy in spoken English.

• You have prepared and will soon use an expected list of errors to be made and theirs is on that list.

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