For teachers, how can I lose the fear of being infront of the students?
how can I lose the shyness I have, and speak fluently without being nervious?(I'm going to begin teaching English languge in a foreigh country,Argentina)
Higher Education (University +) - 6 Answers
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Build up your confidence, because you know you'll be fine. You are the teacher, and you are supposed to teach them a language so they will most likely respect you because of what you are doing to help them learn english.
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Remember that you are there to teach them. You have so much information to share with your students, and (here is when you start praising yourself) nobody else can do as good a job as you can. When you become that determined, it shouldn't be too hard to just start talking - once you start, you probably won't stop, especially when you know your students better and begin to form friendships with them.
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Draft a course curriculum and don't deviate from it. Establish authority without seeming like a drill sargeant. Apply the K.I.S.S. principle
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Act. Pretend you are a great teacher. Work as if you were a actor playing your part. And after a few classes it will become easy. The first classes you will be an actor playing a role. Good luck.
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You will do just fine. Your first day is also their first day meeting you and they will be nervous as well. The key is to try not to show just how nervous you really are. Show confidence in yourself and your knowledge and if something does happen like you mispronounce a word or trip over yourself, laugh it off, have a sense of humor about it. After you get to know the kids a little bit you will be great. Good luck, I hope you have a very wonderful and rewarding carreer ahead of you.
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Use humor to amuse the class and yourself. Don't stay in one spot. Move around like its your own living room. Be comfortable. When you get a question you don't know say "I DON'T KNOW ! but I will find out." When you try to BS your way through you will fail. When time permits keep your mind moving 5 min. ahead of where you currently are. Use class exercises to give yourself a bit of a break. Above all show your PASSION for the subject. I have been teaching for 13 years to engineers, industrial hygienists, govt. people and inspectors. I am the only instructor so these folks have to listen to me for 8 hours a day. In some cases for an entire week. If the above suggestions will work for me and them they will work for you. (BTW.... I never finished high school SSShhhhhhhhhhh. The reason I get away with it is because I KNOW ! my subject matter)
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