Your students informs you that they want lessons in this or that.
When lessons start and you have done an assessment of student levels, the picture is vastly different, what do you do?
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Many students' perceived ability to speak English differs greatly from their actual ability. It is an English teacher's job to tell you them how good (or bad) their English is, and to draw up a plan to help them improve. If you are a native English speaker and qualified teacher, you are in a far better position to judge than they are, after all they are the ones who have signed up to learn the language. A student cannot just cherry pick what they want to learn. Learning a language is about learning and using all aspects of the language. So the long and the short of it is, be honest, polite and firm with a student who thinks they can choose to learn some aspects of English over others.
This profession engages people, which requires a lot more patience. Sometimes people need more time to see/accept their weaknesses. :-) RejoiceAlways :-)
Some students have a specific requirement of what they want to learn and why but in the next lesson they change their mind. So I always ask why they are learning to help me with their assignments after the first lesson.
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You have to have a clear objective of what you want to achieve from your lesson. There are many different approach for teaching beginners that need to be observed. After you see the level they are at these steps will need to follow.
That's happened to me as well. Now when I have a trial lesson with a new student, I tell them my teaching methodology and a general guide of how the lessons will work. However, I only make a specific plan with them for the first lesson and tell them that as we we work together more, the areas that need to be worked on, will become more apparent. When that happened to me in the past, I didn't make a new detailed plan, because I thought the students would change their mind again, which indeed they did. I listened to their ideas and planned something for the next lesson, but only that one. In the next lesson, they were talking about something else again.
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