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
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Content: Here are some ways you can encourage your students today. How to Encourage Your Students: 8 Simple Ways
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Give Positive Feedback
Praising your students is one of the most effective and easiest ways to lift their spirits and keep them working hard. Teachers who excel at praising their students do it publically as well as privately, both verbally and in writing. They send notes home to parents (when appropriate) and have special events during school to recognize the achievements of their students. 2
Set Realistic Expectations and Celebrate When They are Met
Your students don’t have to be optimists to set unrealistic goals and expectations for themselves. No one can become fluent after only one semester studying English. And when those same students fail to meet those out of the water goals, they get discouraged. Sometimes the best thing for your students is for you to be a voice of reason. Help them understand what realistic progress looks like, and work with them to set goals that are challenging but still reachable.