Which features do good teachers have?

Many international students are interested in to be an English teacher in their countries recently, that's why they dicided to study overseas.
Students need to bear the loneliness and hunger for it if they want to reach their dream.

To be an English teacher, TESOL diploma or certificate is strongly required. It is a license to teach English.
The difference of TESOL from other English courses is, you can get more opportunities to speak English in the class.

For instance, for ESL course, teacher teaches and speaks more than students in gerneral and students usually complain that they don't have a chance to speak and their English never improved.

On the other hand, for TESOL course, teacher elicits students to say and prepare for a class. In short, a class is like students' reponsibility. It is very helpful for them.
TESOL course is a good rehearsal when you teach English infront of your students as Teacher.

Can students improve English? The answer is "ABSOLUTELY YES". You took the words right out of my mouth.
Before starting TESOL programme, students need to know what a good teacher is.

Let me tell you my story.

Peter Schmitter was my professor when I was at Berlin-Freie Universitaet.
He influenced me a lot, even my life.
Mr. Peter's teaching showed me what a good teacher is.

The good teacher motivates students to have their vision.
He used to ask students with this question, "Do you have a dream?" If they answered "No" or "I don't know yet, he was upset and said "It's your today homework, Go home!" The 70 year-old tried to make students pursue their dream and hope. He had an inspiration to all students.

The good teacher should be energetic, enthusiastic.
Teachers usually teach same thing repeatedly, they could be exhausted easily. If the teacher seems tired, definitely students could be tired of a class. Even though he was 70 years old, he was so powerful like young teachers.
Students absolutely respected his powerful passion.

The good teacher teaches without distinction.
It is a little bit difficult to give students same opportunities during a class, but the good teacher tries to do that.
Personally, I am German, but look Asian. Unfortunately, Germany is very famous for the discrimination in the world.
However, Mr. Peter gave me a lot of opportunities to take scholarships fairly unlike other professors. He also was willing to recommended me to a good korean university as an exchange student. When I asked to him a favor or needed his consultation, he did it like his work.
Nobody expects a discrimination from him.

The good teacher has a keen sense of humor.
Listener generally could be felt boring easily. Teachers are no exception to this. If teacher sits down on the chair and just listens somebody' speech, even teacher is going to be sleepy honestly. That's why some proper humor is necessary in the class. Humor has a mysterious power for concentration in the class.

The good teacher praises students for what they do.
Students usually could make a lot of mistakes and next time they’re going to be afraid of their mistakes. On this occasion, teacher’s praise can help them escape from a fear of mistake and then students will try to their best.

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By Deutschmann