How to be a Succsessful English Teacher

Last class, the guest of English teacher from Junior high school gave us a speech. I learned that the situation of the present student and differences of a Elementary school and junior high school. I could know many helpful infomation from his speech. And I want to think how to be a good teacher with his advise.

Mr. M said that now teacher should become flexbile. The work of a teacher is not only teaching. Sometimes they care their students about physical and mental problem, more others. It is difficult to teach and study with adolescent children. But I think that we could make a confidence between a teacher and student. Teacher can approach them with understanding them. To understand students, teacher should observe and watch them what they require for the teacher. This is not easy. So I write some thought to become a good teacher. I do not know it work well.

1, As Mr.Hall wrote at his blog, we need a greeting every day at first. In japan, greeting is the importance activity when people meet first and always. Also, children were tought at school 'when you meet a guest or a person you know, greet.' If you could a nice greeting, children will get to put confidence in you. I think better that you greet faster than children. they will be glad surely.

2, Children want to talk a first met men and foreigner, but they cannot speak English well and shy. We have a chance to close them. To more closer, we need have a lot of interesting topic for them. Something interesting will help the lesson, I think. For example, when I was at high school, my teacher was always talking some topic in first 5 minutes. After his speech, students concentrates and prepare to take his class because they feel good for him.

I recommend my socond opinion. My teacher talked about weather, news and more. His story ends with a laugh. This becomes the one of the elements which are used to attract a student. I want to use it.

Micro Teaching of the Grammar

Thank you for taking our Micro Teaching. It was a little difficult to teach "a bare infinitive". Mr.Doi acted a English teacher of Japanese. And I did ALT. We did role allotment each and taught Grammar. I seemed that setting of this student was complicated. But I planned approach to see their state. I will review about them and another.


Strong Points
We broke up the sentence "I have a lot of work to do." in each part of speech. Then, we made students suspected what mean of "to do". Acting roll play, we could students reminded of something related with a noun, 'to' and 'do'. In the end of activity "make a sentence using a bare infinitive, we went round each student how they could write a correct sentence. We gave some advise for students who did not understand it.


Weak Points
Our explanation was little long. It seemed that students was in confusion. We ought to have make explanation shorter and time shortening was possible if I did so it. I think that I needed to consider of the way of using a blackboard, text and tenching material.
The exchange of a conversation was very few. I had some conversation, but it was one to one. I should have make a chance to do so whole student.


I felt that this lesson was difficult than I expected it. Due to this class, I understood a remedy by having taught it. I want to make use of this experience by a class of a public performance.
If you have an advice and impression, please comment.
Thank you.