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For those doing private language tuition (not school language teachers), how do you proceed during one typical tutoring sessions? What I mean exactly is
1) what kind of material do you present to your student?
2) and what kind of tone and behavior do you adopt to keep the class interesting?
3) how much time do you give for theory explanation, written exercises to your student, oral practice etc...?
11 years 5 days ago in Teaching & Learning - China
I'm an oral English teacher, my approach is to have fun with my students, I genuinely enjoy teaching, I set up many pair-work activities, I have a reward scheme that is essential in maintaining discipline, I never raise my voice, I spend very little time on theory explanation but prefer instead to give a brief introduction to an area of English then have students practise it in various ways, I focus largely on building vocabulary as my students are mostly children, and as you can see from my lack of full-stops, I rarely breath. Phew.
@JungleLife, could you give an example of one of your classes?
JungleLife:
First class is always just talking to get information and a knowledge of their level, character, specific needs, what they are currently studying, etc. Ask them questions about family, job/school, hobbies, travel, future goals. Have them ask you questions, don't just talk about yourself, get them to ask what they want to know about you.
Remember to be liked by your student, always keep that in mind. You work for a business not a school, and if you are teaching on your own, they need to like you fro them to keep seeing you.
All my classes start with a warm-up of just shooting the shit for a bit, then into either a review, or new material. I have VIP TESOL students, and we follow along with a TESOL prep book for half the class, prior to the class I photcopy what I need to give to the student, exercises vary from short essays for them to read, or review if I have assigned homework for them to write one. Lots of Q&A, and use th TESOL book as a guideline there. For business students you can ask find lessons online then print them off to use. Some students are more relaxed and pretty much just want to talk about interesting things and enjoy their time with you, not really wanting to open up any books or seriously learn things. And with them I always bring interesting topics or articles to talk about, talk about things they are interested in such as movies, food, etc. I also make PPT's for these students as well as business student, as it is a great teacher's aid, can be fun. When I am having just conversation classes with the students, be sure to teach them vocab/slang/context etc. along the way when you realize they don't understand something or can't explain something. Not always stopping the conversation but at times. Remember to always have diffeentr classes, not always the same regime, mix it up a bit. Be liked by them, earn their respect that you are a good teacher, be funny or lively or just person to person to them, not student to teacher, (unless they are young). Always be prepared for the class. I'm sorry, I guess I am just giving overall advice but tell me about your student or potential student, the I can be more specific in how to approach tutoring them.
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Come up with an interesting topic that they can write about later if they like to write. Find out if the student likes to read & write. Some students like that some don't. I currently have several students and they vary as one doesn't read or write and the other likes to read & write. If they like to do this then give them something to write about and also something to read. Find out what they like! It's all about them!
The one's that don't like to read or write I find it more difficult to teach them as they're reading skills aren't as good and their writing skills need a whole lot of improvement.