10 tips for new teachers

The last Friday 20th I had the opportunity to  listening a presentation of Katy Casto from United States. She is part of the ELF  El Salvador  and in her presentation she gave10 tips that aid future teacher. The first tip was - Be or get excited about the class content. Because, excitement is contagious if you feel excited for the class that you have to perform your students are going to feel it; as well if you do not like what your class is about they are going to feel it, for that as a teacher we have to transmit to our student to be excited for the class content using our expression. Second tip - Create a lesson structure that work for you and follow it constantly. Depending of our students we have to create lessons that work efficiently. Also, we can tell to our students what is the content of the lesson and write on the board the objective for each day. This going to help us that our students keep in mind what is the purpose of the class,what you pretend to do, what they have to do for get the objective. Third tip - Command respect from your students. We have to teach our students how to treat us and others. "A lack of boundaries invites a lack of respect". This means that you have to be professional and  as a teacher you have to create limits between you and your students. For instance, if an students invite you to go out or you share personal information with a students and you create like a friendship with he or she, you have to know that this going  to be a problem. like, your students do not want to attend to class because they think is not a big deal and this do not going to affect them  just because the lack of boundaries that you allowed. Also, we can create a code of conduct with our students. For that the first day of class is very important, is the day for put the rules of the class but, you can ask to your students to tell you some rules what you and they do not have to do in the classroom. Fourth tip - Give students leadership opportunities and other responsibilities. Create activities where the students can be the leader of the class. Also, we can give responsibilities like to develop  warm up activity or give them responsibilities like clean the classroom each they per students. Fifth tip - Incorporate VAK- visual, auditory, Kinesthetics- in every lesson. We going to have different type of students. For instance, visual students that learn through images, videos or flashcards, auditory students that learn through audios, stories or talking, Kinesthetics students that learn through playing, writing all the lesson or doing test. We have to create lessons that contain each of them for aid all our students. Sixth tip - Plan questions based on knowledge goals. According to their class teachers have to create questions where we can notice how much they learned and also with this questions we are helping them to talk more and develop their speaking skill. Thanks to this we can challenge our students to think, to use all the necessary vocabulary that they have learned. Seventh tip - Evaluate using rubrics. We have to use rubrics according to they level of course; we have to share the rubric before, during and after an assignments just for remember them what you expect about the assignment. Eighth tip - Collect and use data. We can make pre-quizzes  or survey to determine knowledge or any misunderstand for aid them. Ninth tip - Take time to reflect and adjust. As a teachers we can ask ourselves what was good with our class or what was wrong and what you have to do different. This part is for reflect and to think how to improve in the next time and do not make the same mistake. The last tip - Encourage a growth mindset. We going to have different behavior in our students but there are some students that think that they are not good for anything, we have to help the to change their way to think. To conclude, as a teachers we are going to have a big challenge but we have to save all this back pocket tips because in the future we can pull out from our pocket and apply them. All the sources that Katy Casto give us were so nice and she apply it during her presentation she sowed us that her tips work for everybody.

"Education is the powerful weapon which you can use to che the world"

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