What are the ten most important advantages of being an English teacher?

As an English teacher, the ten most important advantages are:

The first quality: you must have a strong professional quality!

I believe this is what everyone agrees with! A teacher who talks about the past perfect tense as the present perfect tense can hardly be called an English teacher, and a teacher who asks a word once can hardly make students like him or her! So friends who want to engage in English education, ask yourself, are you proficient in English? Can you hear clearly, speak fluently, read clearly, write fluently and translate freely? If not, you'd better take a step back and learn English well. It's a waste of your students' and your own time.

The second quality: you must have near-perfect pronunciation.

This can almost wipe out more than half of the English teachers in China, but I still want to emphasize it. As an English teacher, it is terrible if the pronunciation is not standard, because the students are imitating you. If you pronounce I as e, it will probably become O when you get to the students! Teachers themselves are a standard, a standard that students compete to imitate. If this standard is not standard, then teachers will lose the most important significance. Another reason is that if you have near-perfect pronunciation, students will admire you from the heart, approach you, learn from you, imitate you, and finally like you, and your class will be more and more relaxed; On the other hand, if your pronunciation is poor and students find that you are different from what you read on the tape, do you think students will still admire you? You can imagine the difficulty of your class! Therefore, as an ordinary English learner, as long as your pronunciation is not bad, foreigners can understand it, because English is just a tool, just use it; But as an English teacher, you must break through pronunciation at all costs, because you are teaching others to learn English, so the meaning is particularly important! Poor English pronunciation will keep you away from excellent English teachers!

The third quality: being able to speak the most complicated language rules in the simplest language!

This is really very important. People say that language is an art, and the effect is completely different from different people's mouths! Some people can make very simple things very complicated, while others can make very complicated things very simple. In English teaching, we will undoubtedly choose the latter. For an English beginner, everything is strange, because it is a completely different language family from Chinese, so the way of speaking is very important! When teaching beginners, many people suddenly list 50 English grammars on the blackboard, which are simple present tense, simple past tense and so on. Until they talked about subjunctive mood. They thought that the students would be fascinated by his "erudition", but as soon as they turned around, they had already run away! Can students not run? The most taboo of English learning is complexity, especially for a beginner! When I teach beginners grammar, I always tell them that there is actually only one grammar in English, which is subject+predicate+object! Everything else is extended from this basic grammar! A teacher told me with a grammar book that the adjective after the be verb is a predicate, not an object! Oh, my god We should understand that for beginners, the thing is not to let them master a lot of grammar, not to let them know what is a copula and what is a predicative, but to let them like English as soon as possible! Once they find that English learning is not as difficult as they thought, they have already succeeded half way, don't you think?

The fourth quality: make your classroom full of passion!

Why do some classes make people sleepy and some classes make people excited? I think the key lies in the use of passion! Passion is so important! It is terrible to go to English class without passion, and it is difficult for students to be mobilized by you! However, passion is not an external slogan, nor is it shouted. It comes from your restless heart, which is eager to dedicate your talents to students. Passion is not an impulse, but an attitude towards life that regards difficulties and obstacles as dust and is full of longing and expectation for the future. As long as you have passion, your class will heat up like fire, so please be passionate!

Fifth quality: learn to have a sense of humor!

No matter how much English we speak, English learning is still very boring in the final analysis! No matter how sensible and obedient the students are, they will feel bored after listening to your grammar for a whole class. An English teacher with a sense of humor will make students laugh and make the class full of laughter. Such a class is fascinating! Of course, we will not deliberately find a few jokes to tell in class, nor can we always tell jokes in a class (some teachers in New Oriental are criticized like this), let alone tell a few yellow jokes to enliven the atmosphere; All humor should come from the heart and be natural to one's own class. Can such teachers and students not like it? At the same time, we also want to say that humor is sometimes a natural quality that not everyone has. If you don't think you are the one who is good at humor, it doesn't matter. As long as you teach the class wonderfully, students will still like you!

Sixth quality: it is best to have experience in living abroad.

I mention this not because I studied in the United States, but because it is a big truth. We teach English not only to teach the language, but also to teach the culture behind the language and the information it carries! For example, we teach students airport language and physiological hair scenes. If we have flown abroad and had our hair cut, teaching will naturally be more attractive, because you are not only teaching English, you are teaching yourself real life experience. For example, I don't like Christmas. Many English teachers hold parties with their students on this day to celebrate Christmas. A group of people who don't know what Christmas is like abroad celebrate Christmas in different ways, so I really admire them! Of course, it is unrealistic for everyone to travel abroad at home at present, but it doesn't matter. If you have a strong life experience, you will still attract students. In short, how to make your class more attractive and how to work hard!

Seventh quality: be good at learning from outstanding people in the same industry!

No matter how popular you are with students and how well you teach, you are not perfect! As an excellent English teacher, we should not only strive to be excellent ourselves, but also be good at learning from others' Excellence! Therefore, we should always listen to other people's classes, listen to students' comments on other teachers, and learn to absorb all excellent things. Even a small gesture can be worth learning repeatedly until it is used in our own classroom! In fact, we should also learn from the bad teachers in the classroom. Why? Because we can learn negative things from them, understand why they are not liked by students, and then completely erase these shortcomings from ourselves so that they will never appear on ourselves!

Eighth quality: dare to admit mistakes to students!

As long as people are imperfect, as long as they are imperfect, they will make mistakes, and so will English teachers. It is common to mispronounce a word or misspell it in class. Students often don't know, but once you notice it or think about it after class, what should you do? Do you pretend you don't know, don't destroy your perfect image in the eyes of students, or dare to admit your mistakes? I think everyone will like the latter. What does it matter if you are wrong? You didn't mean it! But this student is innocent. If the student later finds out what you said at first is wrong, then I think he (she) will dislike you even more! So let's be brave enough to admit our mistakes! I often sleep at night and suddenly think of a word misspelled during the day. After looking up the dictionary, I admitted my mistake at the beginning of class the next day and corrected it in time. Students won't dislike me for this. On the contrary, they will think that my attitude is correct and they will like themselves better. Of course, on the one hand, we should improve our ability, on the other hand, we should also pay attention to minimizing the error rate in class. If we tell students in every class that we made a mistake last class, it is intolerable.

Ninth quality: dare to say that you don't understand.

English knowledge is vast, especially words that not everyone can master. In the face of students' questions, say you don't know if you don't know. As the saying goes, "knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is also." If you blindly show your perfection and pretend that you know it, the consequences will be very serious! If students don't know that your answer is wrong and still believe it, then you are misleading others; If students know that your answer is wrong, it will be a great trauma to your image in the eyes of students. When students ask you questions you don't understand, I often answer, "Sorry, I really don't know this. I'll check it back and give you an answer tomorrow (I'll send you an email at night). " You can try. The most important thing is that English teaching must be based on a scientific attitude. One is one or two, but never three. This is the minimum quality of a teacher.

Tenth quality: students who love you unconditionally!

Love is the most beautiful language in the world! If you don't love your students, then all the above qualities are empty, just like if there is no 1, then more zeros are useless! If you want all the students to like your class, you must love all the students and exchange your sincerity for yours! No matter whether the student is smart or stupid, no matter whether he or she is rich or poor, you should love them unconditionally and treat them equally! Because on the way to learning English, it's all the same! Because in your class, they all study teaching skills equally and deliberately, so it is better to think about how to improve and serve them better. You are really good to students, even if you criticize them, they can feel your sincerity! Therefore, I have always advocated more encouragement, less blows, more praise and less criticism. You know, the success of students' English is the greatest comfort as an English teacher!