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In this unit that focuses on the right characteristics of being a good teacher and the fundamentals of teaching, I have gained guidelines that is very useful in teaching which enables a teacher/tutor to perform effective transfer of knowledge to the student.
I have been reminded of what makes a good teacher effective that I used to conjecture when I was still a student myself, wishing for a teacher who can be both lively and an expert on his/her subject matters. This unit enlisted imperative characteristics of a teacher and they are as follows: a teacher should be kind and patient, loves teaching, lively, can motivate students, has a good subject knowledge, able to build rapport, corrects students effectively and knows how to give help in a timely manner.
The unit not only focused on teachers but the students as well, it enumerated some of the indicators of a good learner wherein a student must have the desire to learn, willingness to experiment with what was learned and the acceptance of error correction.
However, there are also differences between the adult and young learners that a teacher must consider such as age, learning experience, nervousness, motivation, life experiences, behavioral problems and most importantly culture and one's first language. A good teacher must know how to deal with these differences in order to assess them in the most effective manner and to execute lesson plan cogently.
In learning the English language there are levels to base one's language skills in order to check the gravity and intensity of help a student will need, here are the basis:
I. Beginners - zero to basic knowledge.
II. Elementary - basic sentence structures and can communicate on simple terms.
III. Low Intermediate - able to communicate but lacks of general fluency.
IV. Intermediate - able to communicate on a wide range of issues but lacks accuracy and fluency.
V. Upper Intermediate - able to communicate on a wide range of topics but still lacks accuracy.
VI. Advanced - very good knowledge of the English language and studies other subtle topics.
Lastly, a good teacher knows how to acknowledge the reasons why a student wants to learn English in the first place in order to build immediate and good rapport as well as achieve an amicable interaction with the class. There are no right or wrong reasons as to why a student needs to learn the English language as long as it motivates them to do so. Some of the reasons I still have in mind are for future career prospects, for travel purposes, to aid communication gap, for students who wants additional class outside of school and lastly is when a person loves diversity that the English language is so imperative to learn because communication is the main glue of our society.
