The document discusses the teaching experience and methods of an online ESL teacher for children. They have 4 months of in-person teaching experience and nearly 2 years of online experience. Their online classes for kids include singing, dancing, role-playing, games, and creative rewards to keep students engaged. When teaching beginners, they keep lessons short and simple, use visual aids, listen first before speaking, provide practice time, make lessons fun, use positive reinforcement and check understanding. The main challenge was unmotivated students, but they explained the importance of English and used praise, rewards and engaging lessons to overcome this.
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How much teaching experience do you have with kids
The document discusses the teaching experience and methods of an online ESL teacher for children. They have 4 months of in-person teaching experience and nearly 2 years of online experience. Their online classes for kids include singing, dancing, role-playing, games, and creative rewards to keep students engaged. When teaching beginners, they keep lessons short and simple, use visual aids, listen first before speaking, provide practice time, make lessons fun, use positive reinforcement and check understanding. The main challenge was unmotivated students, but they explained the importance of English and used praise, rewards and engaging lessons to overcome this.
The document discusses the teaching experience and methods of an online ESL teacher for children. They have 4 months of in-person teaching experience and nearly 2 years of online experience. Their online classes for kids include singing, dancing, role-playing, games, and creative rewards to keep students engaged. When teaching beginners, they keep lessons short and simple, use visual aids, listen first before speaking, provide practice time, make lessons fun, use positive reinforcement and check understanding. The main challenge was unmotivated students, but they explained the importance of English and used praise, rewards and engaging lessons to overcome this.
How much teaching experience do you have with kids?
I have 4 months of teaching experience in
primary school and I have been an online ESL teacher to children for 1 year and 9 months. What activities do you usually use in online kids for a kid? As an online ESL teacher, I always make sure that my student will have a student-centered learning experience that's why I always preparing different activities to make our lessons fun and fruitful. The activities that I usually use in an online class for kids are singing, dancing, role-playing, lesson recap, lesson check, pronunciation drills, and games like (guessing the card, board games, spell the word game, sort out, bubble match, what's missing letters or pictures, spin and say drag and say, etc.).I also use creative rewards and virtual rewards as part of our activity because I believe these will encourage students' output. This is also one of the best tools we have as teachers, from motivating, keeping them engaged, and encourage good behavior. How do you explain something to a small child who is a beginner learner of English? To explain something to a small child who is a beginner learner of English, first, I explain it by keeping it short and simple. This is one of the most important steps to teach English to beginner learners. Second, I use my Total Physical Response or TPR, show realia, picture, and other teaching aids to explain it to them. Third, I let them listen first. Fourth, I give them lots of time to practice. Fifth, the child's attention span is very short and they are in the play stage that's why I always make my lessons fun by having a kiddified background and attire, showing some stuffed toys or puppets that I can use if I explaining something. Sixth, I always use positive reinforcement. Seventh, I always check their understanding using the CCQs and ICQs. Eight, I gave feedback to the parents about the performance of their child. And lastly, I am always patient in teaching. These are the ways that I believe it's effective if I'm explaining something to a child. Can you please share a challenge you had to overcome in an online class? The challenge that I had based on my experience is to deal with the student that is not motivated to study the English Language. Some students are just forced by their parents to study. Some are already tired and pressured in their school works. There are many reasons why the student are not motivated to study and it's challenging on my part how to know it since it's an online class. As a teacher, my job is not only to teach but also to motivate my student to participate in class to have good quality lessons. So what I did is, I'm explaining to them the importance of learning the English language that it can help them if they are planning to study and work abroad, if they are going to take an entrance exam in the University, if they are going to travel abroad, etc. But some students' English vocabulary is limited so they wouldn't understand it, so what I did is to give them creative rewards, praise them for showing their effort in class, and make my lessons fun and engaging. These are my ways how I overcome this challenge while having an online class.