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0:04Hi everyone and welcome to teaching
0:07skills 2. This is a little bit of
0:10different input because we deal with
0:12some more
0:15philosophical sides of teaching. So
0:18talking about character and skills and
0:21really what you bring to the table as a
0:23teacher. And I think that's what I love
0:24about this input is that it really
0:27teaches you that it's for everyone.
0:30Whoever you are, you might be shy,
0:32extrovert, introvert, omnivert,
0:34confident, um, silly, um, serious,
0:38whatever that is, that there really is a
0:40place for you to teach English, um,
0:43especially in Spain, which is incredibly
0:45accepting and open. We're also going to
0:49look at some more practical elements of
0:51being a teacher, the tools that you need
0:53to actually do your job and to make your
0:55job a bit more interesting for the
0:57students, easier for you. Um, so let's
1:00dive in and see what we have.
1:07Okay, let's put it on to slides share.
1:11So, as I say, the objective for this one
1:13is really to look at the most important
1:15aspects of being a teacher and the more
1:18practical areas of the materials,
1:20resources, um, tools that you'll need to
1:23be a teacher. So, let's start with the
1:26characteristics of a teacher.
1:29I always look back um at the different
1:31teachers I've had through, you know, my
1:34M's program where I was a bit older to
1:37when I was at school and really the
1:39teachers that inspired me. And when I
1:42look at the ones that inspired me, they
1:43they were all very different, but I
1:45think what came across was really their
1:48passion for what they did and a real
1:51interest in each of us as students. And
1:55I think that that's something that if
1:57you come with a passion to really listen
2:00and really understand your students,
2:03then you can't you really can't go wrong
2:05um with being a teacher.
2:07So I think that really describes
2:09empathy.
2:11One of the things to remember,
2:13especially teaching adults, is that they
2:16could be doing many other things. Um,
2:18most of the time they'll be at work and
2:20they'll have their classes in company or
2:23it may be after work. And here in Spain,
2:25for example, it's very late to work. A
2:27lot of people don't finish work till
2:287:00. They go home, have their English
2:31class, and then have dinner after that.
2:33So, actually them choosing to find the 2
2:36hours a week or 3 hours a week that
2:37they're spending with you for their
2:39English is a lot um is a lot of their
2:42personal time, the time that they could
2:44actually be relaxing to give up. So they
2:46tend to be committed, but they've also
2:49got a lot going on. They may have
2:51children. They may have other work
2:54responsibilities.
2:55They may be an accountant who has end of
2:58month and then end of year, different
3:00cycles in their business depending on
3:02what's going on. So having an empathy
3:04and knowing what's going on for them,
3:06knowing whether they're about to have a
3:08baby, knowing when if someone's ill in
3:10their family, all those kinds of things
3:12really help you to empathize with your
3:15students and really build a bond. And
3:17you really do build um a very strong
3:19bond um with your students. I'm not
3:22always sure whether some students think
3:25it's more therapy than English classes.
3:27um but you'll certainly find out more
3:29than you expected about most of your um
3:32students.
3:34So the next thing is good organization
3:36skills. Now don't worry if you're a
3:38little bit chaotic and I am generally a
3:40little bit more chaotic than say for
3:42example Andrea. He's super organized. Um
3:44I think both me and Carlos are on the
3:47same um kind of slightly disorganized
3:50and Andrea's most definitely not
3:52organized. So but we've been all of us
3:55have been successful teachers. So, the
3:57most important thing is really to get
3:59your stuff together, to have good notes,
4:03and to really organize your files well.
4:05Um, and we're going to be talking a
4:07little bit about that when we look at
4:08some more of the other elements um in
4:11terms of tools and resources that you
4:13can use. But honestly, just getting
4:15yourself prepped and and getting
4:17organized on a Sunday for the week ahead
4:20will make all the difference. You won't
4:23get paid for all the outside stuff you
4:25do. So the longer that takes you, the
4:27less money you're making. So that's
4:30going to hopefully motivate you to to be
4:32quite organized
4:35and being creative. You know, with
4:37children, it's very easy to be creative
4:39and they bring a lot of the creativity.
4:41If you're teaching two accountants at
4:43KPMG and it's in their lunch hour,
4:47um creativity can be a little bit lost.
4:49You know, um as adults, we don't tend to
4:52have the opportunity to be as creative
4:54creative. And there's so many resources
4:56out there online and and we're going to
4:59show you a lot of those and we have a
5:00lot of resources for you to to really
5:03use and and call upon in your classes.
5:05So, just try and think, you know, a
5:08little bit outside the box when it comes
5:10to your classes. And just remember that,
5:12you know, just because they're adults
5:13doesn't mean they don't like fun. Um,
5:15one of the fun things I used to do was
5:18every month we had a kind of a casino
5:22session, um, where I had a little
5:25roulette wheel and they all had
5:28chocolate money and they used to bet it
5:29and we'd do like, I don't know, verbs or
5:31nouns or something. We'd been
5:32practicing, phrasal verbs, something
5:34like that. And you'll be amazed how much
5:36a managing director really wants to win
5:39those um, chocolate coins. And I think
5:42it's because at the heart of it, you
5:43know, we all like to have some fun and
5:44we all like to enjoy it. So the more you
5:46can bring, the certainly better it will
5:48be for you and your students.
5:51Attention to detail. You just can't make
5:54mistakes because students may not be
5:56able to pick up their own mistakes, but
5:58they'll certainly be able to pick up
5:59your mistakes. So make sure with any
6:01resources you use, you really go through
6:03it with a fine tooth comb. And remember
6:05that here in Spain in particular,
6:07students have been brought up learning
6:09grammar. They're used to reading a lot.
6:11Um they have a lot less um of experience
6:16of actually listening and speaking, but
6:18reading and writing is something they
6:20definitely have been taught a lot of. So
6:23they always always spot any errors and
6:25it does make you look, you know, not as
6:28organized and definitely that you don't
6:29know your craft as well as you you
6:31actually do. So if you're not good at
6:34spotting detail, have someone else go
6:36through the information for you.
6:41being caring. I mean, this is a basic,
6:43you know, if you're working with people,
6:45whether it be children or adults, you
6:48know, just showing that, and it goes
6:49back to this empathy, that you care, um,
6:51that you care what's going on in their
6:53lives is really important with onetoone
6:55students, and we we, you know, we do
6:57cover this a lot more in onetoone
6:58students. If something's going on with
7:00them and they want to talk about that,
7:03then that's how the class goes that day.
7:05You can't be dogmatic about it. So just
7:07be a little bit open and just really,
7:09you know, find out what's going on with
7:11these students and and try to be a
7:14listening ear when you can.
7:17A sense of humor. I think a sense of
7:19humor is essential in the classroom.
7:22Again, it comes back to this, you know,
7:25it doesn't need to be all serious. It
7:27doesn't need to be all corporate. They
7:28have all of that in bundles and oodles
7:31in their day-to-day jobs. So having a
7:33sense of humor, teaching them some
7:35jokes, teaching them some good phrases.
7:38Every student loves to learn some new
7:39swear words, no matter how old they are.
7:41Um they all love it. So So try and have
7:44a bit more of a sense of humor with your
7:46students. Um so that they can enjoy the
7:48classes a little bit better.
7:52And this is a hard one. One of the
7:54things about being a teacher is a little
7:56bit like acting. When you open the
7:58classroom for that day, they don't
8:00really care
8:02and it doesn't work both ways. Really
8:04about what's going on with you. What you
8:06need to do is be on for that one hour.
8:09So, if you're having a bad day, it's
8:11rained, something happened, D, put the
8:14smile on, go in, do your class, and then
8:18leave and go see your friends and have a
8:20very cheap beer um in Madrid. But it's
8:23important that you're on in the time of
8:25that class and that you don't bring
8:27your, you know, more negative energy
8:30into the classroom. You need to keep it
8:32upbeat in order to keep them learning
8:37and knowledgeable. Now, this is a hard
8:39one because, you know, during this 10
8:41weeks of this hybrid course and then the
8:43two weeks you're going to spend with us
8:45in Madrid, you're not going to know
8:46everything. I truly believe it takes
8:48around two years to be a really really
8:51expert and competent grammar teacher.
8:53But you'll learn and learn and you know
8:56just every week read something new,
8:59learn something new. If a student asks
9:01you for an answer, go find that answer
9:04and you learn from that. And so just
9:06keeping up to date constantly with your
9:08knowledge as a teacher, phonetics,
9:11grammar, whatever that may be is really
9:13really important and just keep on
9:15growing as a teacher
9:17and engaging. I think this comes back to
9:20you know really the good sense of humor,
9:22the using good resources, just being on
9:25and just generally you know you need
9:27your students to want to learn. Um, as
9:31as we mentioned before, they've got lots
9:32going on. So, definitely definitely try
9:35to engage them and try to get them
9:38excited and motivated about what you're
9:41doing with them.
9:43Okay. So, let's look at a little bit
9:45more some practical areas of what's
9:49important in terms of having a toolkit.
9:52Now this has changed drastically really
9:54over the last two years and over you
9:57know what was the pandemic because tech
9:59for education
10:02has outpaced any other kind of tech
10:05advancement because obviously most of
10:08the schools universities etc suddenly
10:10went online and had to deliver what was
10:12often very practical courses suddenly
10:15virtually and online. So companies such
10:18as Zoom, Teams, um all the LMS's the um
10:24kind of systems that are built for
10:26platforms, Google which we use, all of
10:29them have taken off in a way that we
10:31couldn't have even imagined a couple of
10:33days and this has been gamechanging for
10:35teaching English. So let's have a little
10:38look.
10:39Okay, so online we really need to think
10:43about um your own online and you know
10:47kind of tech abilities and it's worth
10:49getting a little bit sorted before you
10:51come. LinkedIn is a great way for you to
10:55be able to share contact details with
10:56people. We used to always say make you
10:58know get a business card. This day and
11:01age people don't are not interested in
11:03business cards. They just share their
11:05LinkedIn um link. So get your LinkedIn
11:08profile up to date. Get a good photo on
11:11it and start putting you know about
11:14teaching English in Madrid etc. Strongly
11:17recommend you set up a Google Drive that
11:19is just for your teaching or certainly a
11:22whole set of files that are just for
11:24your teach uh for teaching.
11:27Google Drive is going to be one of the
11:28main ways that you share and keep all
11:31the information and it will stop you
11:34redoing stuff over and over again. So if
11:36you have a student who's a B2 level in
11:39business, it will be a resource that you
11:41can use over and over and over and over
11:43again. So you want to make sure that you
11:45have um a set of folders and that you
11:48name and label every document, every
11:51Google doc, every Google sheet, every
11:52poll, every questionnaire, everything
11:55you do in a way that makes it really,
11:57really usable. So I wouldn't for example
12:00if I created new resource for say a B2
12:04business student and it's a reading with
12:06some questions I wouldn't then share
12:09that in I don't know Carmen Vathquaz's
12:13um folder what I would do is share it in
12:16my master folder for B2 business
12:18students under reading and then share it
12:21into the file that I've created just for
12:24her. So that means the next time that
12:26you're looking for a document for
12:29another B2 student, you can go straight
12:31through to that master file instead of
12:33going, "Ah, who was that student I did
12:35that for? What was her name? Oh god, the
12:37one with brown hair. Yeah, no, can't
12:39remember." And trolling through all
12:41yours and having to search and loads of
12:43stuff coming up. So you have this kind
12:45of master dock or this master folder all
12:49broken down into the levels whether it's
12:51a reading, writing for verbs, grammar,
12:54phonetics, whatever it is and then you
12:56can use and use those documents over and
12:58over again. So we highly recommend these
13:01folders for you. Um a list of your
13:04students names and contacts
13:07definitely details them of places of
13:09where they work etc. So this is more
13:11this is something and we'll teach you
13:13how to do a needs analysis and level
13:15test for these students. A lot of this
13:17information will be given there. And if
13:18you're allowed a copy of that or you do
13:20it yourself because it's a private
13:22student and then that's something you
13:24could just put in there. If you're
13:26working for an academy or an agency, you
13:28will have tendance sheets. So again, put
13:31them in a separate drive because often
13:33unless you hand those in, you don't get
13:35paid. So very, very important. your
13:37lesson plans, what we've just talked
13:39about in terms of having a master dock,
13:41any roleplay activities, literally
13:44anything. Um, as you set up your drive,
13:47but this is about going back to what we
13:48just talked about being organized. If
13:51you get this drive set up and start
13:53adding to it every time you create
13:55something, putting it in the right
13:56place, you you will be able to double
13:59the amount you can work because you
14:01won't be spending all your time trolling
14:02around looking for new content.
14:05A Google calendar is a great way to keep
14:07on track of everything, to keep on top
14:09of your hours. So, when an agency phones
14:12up and says, "Can you do a Tuesday and
14:14Thursday from 2:00 to 3:30?" You can
14:16immediately go to your Google calendar,
14:18have a look, and be like, "Nope. Um, I'm
14:20already taking that time, but I could do
14:22it if it was 3 to 4:30." And so, you've
14:25got everything there really up to date
14:27and really detailed.
14:29you are going to need to have a mobile
14:30phone um because that's how your
14:33students are going to contact you.
14:34That's how the agencies are going to
14:35contact you and it generally is through
14:38WhatsApp. Pretty much the whole of Spain
14:40works on WhatsApp. So, if you're not
14:43used to using that, it's worth
14:45downloading it and having a go with
14:46that. A laptop or tablet are absolutely
14:50essential now. You really cannot teach
14:52without either of those things and you
14:53really can't do our course without them.
14:55So, make sure you bring either a laptop
14:57or a tablet with you, whichever works
14:59both for you. A mini speaker is a great
15:03thing if you're even if you've got a
15:05good sound on your laptop or tablet. If
15:08you're in you often are in some really
15:09big conference rooms and the may, you
15:11know, there may be five or six students
15:13kind of spread out. If you're doing
15:15listening activities, you want the
15:17quality to be quite good. So, we highly
15:19recommend a little mini speaker. Um,
15:21just a USB one. A whiteboard app um is a
15:25great tool to download into your laptop
15:29or tablet. There are many many apps out
15:32there. Um
15:34and a download of your teaching
15:36schedule. You often still be getting
15:38your teaching schedule as a piece of
15:40paper. So definitely scan it. We've got
15:41scanners at the school you can use and
15:44and make sure you keep a copy of that
15:45all the time um with you. I would take a
15:48photo of it so that you've just got it
15:50on your phone whenever you need it. Um,
15:52an app of the metro system is something
15:54you'll definitely want to download on
15:56your mobile phone because when an agent
15:58does phone you up and says, "Can you go
15:59and do this class in Laguna?" and you
16:03don't know where Lagona is, you can have
16:05a look on this map straight away because
16:07what you don't want to do is be in the
16:09north of Madrid at 3:00 and say yes to a
16:12class at 3:30 in the south of Madrid and
16:15waste all that time on the metro. So,
16:17you really need to know um have access
16:20to where everything is. And lastly, a
16:22dictionary app. Um you'll be amazed how
16:24many random words come up that you
16:26really need a dictionary for. It'll also
16:28help you with phonetics. It'll help you
16:30with sentence stress. All things that
16:33we're going to teach you on the course.
16:36So, those are some practical things when
16:38it comes to tech and physical stuff um
16:42for when tech lets you down because we
16:45promise you that tech will regularly let
16:47you down for some reason. I don't know
16:49why. The internet can be quite in
16:52unstable in Spain, which is can be
16:54really frustrating. Or you'll get to a
16:56company and it's really complicated for
16:58you to log on to their system. If you
17:00work at KPMG or places like that, it can
17:03be really really hard to get onto their
17:05network. Um you might not want to be
17:07using the data from your phone. Um it's
17:10not like it is for example for those of
17:12you who come from the US um or Canada
17:14where you get a lot of data. It's not
17:16quite the same in Europe. So just
17:19something to think about when when tech
17:21lets you down that you have some kind of
17:24backup resources when all else fails.
17:27So, I' definitely think of getting a
17:28business English game with instructions
17:30and handouts. Handouts for about five or
17:32six people. That can be great. For
17:35example, if you rock up to a class that
17:36you're doing a substitution or you rock
17:39up to a class where there was supposed
17:40to be x amount of people and only one
17:42person has turned up, so you decide to
17:44do something else. Or, as I say, if the
17:46tech doesn't work, so the class that
17:48you'd planned which had a YouTube video
17:50actually won't work. So you can get
17:52stuck into a good um game games, you
17:55know, business games and you can find
17:57loads on online and we'll be showing you
18:00loads of resources over the next couple
18:02of weeks on this course. Um you know,
18:04can last an hour easily. I highly
18:07recommend you get some story dice. story
18:10dice you can get from Amazon or any
18:13little kind of cheap shop around the
18:15corner and they normally come with
18:16pictures on them and so students can
18:19roll the dice and make a story from what
18:21they see. There's normally five or six
18:23dice in a box so people can make you
18:26know each person could have a dice and
18:29they go around and make a story. It can
18:31make a great warmer but it can also just
18:33be a great game as say when everything
18:35else um goes wrong. A printed snakes and
18:38ladders board and dice is also a
18:41fabulous game. Even if you've got the
18:43resources for, for example, the nouns or
18:46verbs or the cards virtually actually
18:48having the snakes and ladder board. Um,
18:50students really, really enjoy it. I
18:52think for those of you from the US, it's
18:54called shoots and ladders. Um, and so a
18:59simple board that you print out,
19:00laminate it. We've got a laminator at
19:02the school for when you're with us. And
19:04again, it's super helpful for having
19:06just as a backup um in your bag. Uh
19:11couple of printed lesson plans. Again, a
19:13couple of printed lessons plans for each
19:15level are great if you have to do a
19:17quick substitution teacher, substitution
19:20teaching, and you're not allowed access
19:22to the Wi-Fi because you have to go
19:23through security clearance and all that
19:26kind of thing. So again, it can just be
19:28a great way of having a few things at
19:30your fingertips when all goes wrong. a
19:34mini whiteboard and pen. Again,
19:36fantastic. It may be that you've got a
19:39student who's not very techy, doesn't
19:40like lo using the laptop, and just a
19:43very cheap whiteboard. You can get them
19:44for a couple of euros here in Madrid.
19:47And a pen and you're off again,
19:49regardless of the room you're in or
19:51regardless of the technology. Um, a copy
19:54of your passport um is a really, really
19:58good thing to carry around with you. We
20:00highly recommend you have a few copies
20:01of your passport. um one that stays at
20:04home and one that travels with you and a
20:07copy of your legal residence status. So,
20:10it may be a copy of your visa um card or
20:14the visa letter, those kinds of things.
20:17Really, really important for when you're
20:18moving around. You're often required to
20:20show um you know, proof of identity,
20:24especially to get in some of the big
20:26companies. So, this is a little pack, a
20:29physical pack that we recommend you put
20:31together. There's plenty of time to do
20:33that when you're with us on the course
20:34or for the first couple of days after
20:36you've finished. We've got thousands of
20:38resources that would match all of these
20:41that you'd need. And so, put that
20:43together, keep it in the back of your um
20:46keep it in the back of your bag um or
20:48whatever you use to carry everything
20:50around your rucks sack and you'll be
20:53absolutely ready to to rock and roll.
20:56Okay. So resources available to teachers
21:00at the school. We've got study books for
21:03all level. We've got a massive library
21:05and you'll have access to all that um
21:08both online and physically when you come
21:12to the school.
21:14We highly recommend swapping materials
21:16with other teachers. And this is where
21:18the Google Drive comes in really really
21:19handy because Google Drive is so
21:22sharable. So for example, it may be that
21:25you have a drive that a load of you
21:27actually share. It may be, you know,
21:29those of you on the course, you decide
21:31to set up a drive and whenever you do
21:33new classes, whenever you find
21:34resources, new YouTube videos, you pop
21:37them in and you all agree how to name
21:40things, how the file system works, but
21:42it again can cut down massively on the
21:45amount of time that you actually prep
21:47and plan your classes, which we're big
21:49fans of.
21:52Um yeah, we've, as I say, we've got the
21:56um the teacher and student book library
21:59at TT in both virtual and physical form.
22:02So there's kind of activity books that
22:07are just one-off games on certain
22:11subjects. So, we've got one that's all
22:13about banking or ones that are all about
22:15people who are in HR or um ones that are
22:20particularly for an exam, for example.
22:22And then we've got the normal study
22:24books where it would take an A2 student
22:27from the beginning of A2 to the end of
22:29A2 when they become a B1 student. So,
22:32all of those are available with us.
22:36Um obviously the internet um is a huge
22:42plethora of information. Um you can't
22:45imagine how much stuff is now out there
22:47which I think it actually makes it a
22:49little bit harder when I than when I was
22:50a teacher and there was really only
22:52about five or six sites which had some
22:54stuff. Um there's free and there's
22:57subscription. Um we highly recommend to
23:00start off with you start off with all
23:02the free stuff. There may be a couple of
23:04subscription things that you like going
23:05forward. Um, you know, it may be a
23:08subscription to a particular newspaper
23:10that you like that works for really
23:12really well. It may be the type of
23:15company that takes all of the stuff out
23:19there um that's current and news and
23:21then puts it into actual lesson plans
23:24that can be really really good. Again,
23:26YouTube YouTube is a game changer when
23:29it comes to teaching. It's great because
23:31it's authentic. It's real. Um, anything
23:35that your students into, however weird
23:37and wonderful. I used to have a student
23:38who was massively into um, fountain
23:42pens. Um, each to their own. And that's
23:45what we say is always great about
23:47teaching. Um, and it used to be really
23:49hard finding resources on pens, but now
23:52there's actually thousands of groups out
23:55there on Facebook who actually all talk
23:57about pens all the time. And there's
24:00YouTube videos and tutorials on how to
24:02clean them and do all sorts of things.
24:03So, it would have been it would have
24:04made my life much easier. So, whatever
24:07weird and wonderful stuff your students
24:09are into, you'll find stuff um for them
24:12which can be really helpful.
24:14Magazines and newspapers can still be a
24:17great resource for you. If you see a
24:19couple of magazines, glossy magazines
24:21that you've got at home and you've got a
24:22little bit extra space in your suitcase,
24:25pop them in because students love um
24:28magazines and they don't tend to buy
24:29them in foreign languages cuz they're
24:32expensive um if they've been imported
24:34and you know when you have a magazine it
24:36tends to be an easy read. So they love
24:39seeing magazines and newspapers from
24:41other countries and the style because we
24:43tend to think our style is the style and
24:46often they can be very very different.
24:48So if you've got some space definitely
24:50bring some stuff in and as I say YouTube
24:53videos um can be really authentic
24:55material but TED talks as well. TED
24:58talks are fantastic because they really
25:01can be very specific about the
25:04type of subject that you want to teach
25:07your student, but because they're a
25:10presentation and they were expected to
25:12go in a particular format, they always
25:15start with um a kind of an intro into
25:19what's going on. Then they get into the
25:21main body, then they summarize. so they
25:24can be greatful teaching um as well as
25:27just you know listening and being
25:29interesting content.
25:31So I hope that's been helpful. That's
25:34teaching skills two. I need you to now
25:36go to your um task in the Google
25:40classroom and there'll be some a couple
25:41of short activities for you to complete
25:45and then as soon as you complete them
25:47I'll be there to mark them and give you
25:49some feedback.
25:52We can't wait to see you in Madrid so we
25:53can actually you know show you all the
25:55resources and you know show you the type
25:59of teaching we do over the course you'll
26:02see a lot of classes um a lot of model
26:04classes online but you'll also see ones
26:06when you come to the school and you
26:08really will get a much more practical
26:11sense of of what's needed to be a
26:13teacher. So we hope this has been useful
26:16for you and we look forward to seeing
26:19you very soon.

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