What does excellent teaching look like?
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Best answer
connecting with your learners and building a good relationship with them
Having fun while meeting the language goal
Excellent teaching is getting the student involved in the lesson and to find out whether the student has understood the teacher and the contents. For me, I gauge the student's progress after he or she has done well in the examinations. I always go back to the previous lesson before starting the new one like asking the student some questions relating to the previous topic.
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Teaching should be a two-way process for the lesson to be effective and enjoyable.
When the student understands and learns something they can use everyday, and feels happy with their own progress
Teachng should be adaptive to the learner - and build the learners confidance. Teaching should be a two-way process for the lesson to be effective and enjoyable.
The best teaching box contain complex tasks which are directed to improve speaking skills. For example it should contain grammar, lexics, audio/video and speking activities
Setting goals together and trying your best to get them materialised.
- Sherif HafezCertified Online ESL Tutor And Arabic Tutor For Non-Native Speakers
I believe that excellent teaching is the teaching way that allows the teacher to see the improvement in the student's level, no matter what that way is.
When students execute what they learn in their daily conversation. Is the best excellent teaching look like.
A smiling student
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