From ELT Teacher to YL Teacher
With my CELTA in hand, I was ready for my first teaching job. My timetable included 9 – 12 year-olds. No sweat! I’d worked on play schemes for children and so I imagined teaching them would be the same. How wrong I was! All my new CELTA techniques just didn’t work and I was soon shouting for help. Here are some of the things I wish I’d been told before I started: 1 Learn your students names and use them!…