That way students have a focus for each lesson and a sense of progress and of what they've covered. I would like more ideas for teaching mixed-ability groups and I want to plan the whole course better next time. I still need to continue improving my lesson planning. I learned to take extra activities for students who finished early and that was much better. I found it was better to teach without a course book, adapting materials I found online to suit their needs. Classes seemed to be too difficult for some students and too easy for others, who finished quickly and got bored. However, I found it easy to build good relationships with the students as a class and as individuals and I soon relaxed with them. It was a challenge to encourage the lower-level students to speak in English, but at least they understood a lot more at the end of the course.Īt first, planning lessons took a really long time and I was not happy with the results.
I was nervous at first and did not feel confident about speaking in front of people. They came from a variety of countries and had very different backgrounds and experiences.įor me, the most important thing was the relationship with the students.
The students had all just arrived to start a new life in the UK and they had a range of levels from beginner to intermediate. I've been thinking about becoming an English teacher for a while so it was a good opportunity to see what it's like. In January I spent three weeks volunteering as an English teacher in my town.
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