Title: 8 Simple Ways to Encourage Your Students
Headings: 8 Simple Ways to Encourage Your Students
8 Simple Ways to Encourage Your Students
They say they will never be able to get it right. They may put so much pressure on themselves that they become paralyzed in the English classroom. They may be so frustrated they may be on the verge of quitting all together.
How to Encourage Your Students: 8 Simple Ways
Give Positive Feedback
Set Realistic Expectations and Celebrate When They are Met
Let Your Own Excitement Come Through
Vary Your Teaching Methods
Facilitate Don’t Dominate
Make Topics Practical
Show Students Their Own Successes
Get Out of the Book
The best teachers do more than teach.
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Get Out of the Book
Text books are great, and getting out of them every once in a while is even greater. Keep your students encouraged to use the English they are learning by giving them credit for things they do outside the classroom. Build it into your grading scale or give extra credit for real life language usage. Ask students to share when they strike up a conversation with a stranger, successfully give directions to a cab driver, read and fill out applications written in English as well as any of a number of other activities. If you like, make these type of real life language use assignments for class, and your students are sure to get a lift when they accomplish them. The best teachers do more than teach. They encourage their students and act as cheerleaders for them along the language learning highway. Every ESL student needs a pick me up every once in a while, and when you make it a habit to encourage your students, they will have just what they need from you just when they need it. What do you do to encourage your students? P.S. If you enjoyed this article, please help spread it by clicking one of those sharing buttons below.