How To Support Your EFL Teachers At The Start Of The Year

As an EFL supervisor, you should pay a visit to your EFL teachers during the first week of the new school year. First, you should check their preparation notes and then ask them to gather so as to be able to hold a meeting with them. During the meeting, talk positively with them about the importance of language and the honour of being a language teacher. Then, discuss with them how to be an effective teacher of English by telling them the following:

1. Control your teaching:

As a teacher, you should try your best to make your teaching effective. You won’t be able to do so except if you:

• Know the course materials very well by reading them in advance.
• Know the outcomes of each unit and stick them at the front of your preparation notes to adjust your teaching accordingly.
• Always prepare your lessons very well. Your lesson preparation should include mainly: Objectives – Warm-up activity – Presentation steps – Practice steps – Assessment Procedures and homework assignment – Self-evaluation Notes.
• Have information about your students, e.g. their names, level of learning, weakness & strength points, … etc. and make use of this information when preparing your lessons.

2. Improve your teaching:

After controlling it, you should go a step forward to improve your teaching to facilitate your students’ learning. You can do that by:

• Learning & applying new teaching methods, techniques and activities.
• Adjusting your teaching according to your students’ learning levels and needs.
• Reflecting on your success and difficulties in the classroom.
• Discussing teaching experiences with your colleagues.
• Assessing your students’ progress giving them effective feedback.
• Correcting your students’ written work as soon as possible underlining their mistakes and then dealing with common mistakes on the board.
• Designing and using simple teaching aids in the classroom to facilitate learning and attract your students’ attention.
• Organizing your students during the class in different and various ways: whole-class, individual students, pair work and group work, and doing so depending on the learning activity itself and the time assigned to it.

3. Give students enough time for language practice:

English is a language and it is learned mainly by practice. To enhance language practice in the classroom, you should:

• Create real-life situations and encourage students to use language in them as they have learned.
• Give students the chance to hear and use authentic English.
• Use audio and visual teaching aids to foster students’ talk in English fluently.
• Ask students to put any new word they learn in a sentence of their own.
• Ask students to utilize new structures in realistic situations.

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