Teaching English Online Step – An overview of key skills Task 2 Answers 1. Setting clear learning goals Marie Therese says that an online teacher needs to be able to plan and set clear learning goals so that lessons have a clear purpose and aren’t just a...
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Teaching English Online Step – An overview of key skills Task 2 Answers 1. Setting clear learning goals Marie Therese says that an online teacher needs to be able to plan and set clear learning goals so that lessons have a clear purpose and aren’t just a case of chatting with the learner. 2. Planning Ollie says that it’s really important to plan really well so that you know what you’re doing at every step and that there is no ‘dead time’. 3. Good management skills Lindsay says that the teaching techniques you use in the face-to-face classroom need to be used in the digital environment too, although they may need to be adapted. Setting up tasks, checking learners have understood the tasks and building rapport can be more difficult online. That means the teacher needs to be sure they can give clear instructions and demonstrations of activities. 4. Using gestures Corrine talks about using gestures and shows us some gestures she uses to count the number of syllables in a word, to invite le
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