TEFL Teacher Strengths & Weaknesses | Distracted Students, Error Correction & Praise - S07E07

What are your biggest strengths and weaknesses as an English teacher? 🎓In this episode of How to English: Teach and Learn with Gav & Em, we take an honest (and occasionally uncomfortable!) look at our own teaching styles. Em loves organisation, structure and a clear plan, while Gav thrives on creativity, flexibility… and sometimes preparing a worksheet just minutes before class. 😅We also tackle some very relatable TEFL teaching challenges: What should you do when a student is distracted? How much should you correct students during speaking activities? Is it better to focus on fluency or accuracy? And how much praise should English learners receive?Plus, we talk about that daunting feeling of starting again with a brand-new student, watching learners make long-term progress, and why genuine praise can be such a powerful part of language learning.Whether you're an EFL teacher, ESL teacher, TEFL professional, English tutor or language learner, join Gav & Em for practical teaching ideas, classroom experiences, humour and plenty of English along the way.☕ Enjoying the podcast? Support Gav & Em:ko-fi.com/howtoenglishpod💬 Join the conversation: What are YOUR biggest strengths and weaknesses as a teacher? And what do you do when a student just isn't paying attention?#TEFL #EnglishTeaching #TeachEnglish #ESL #EFL #EnglishTeacher #TEFLTeacher #ESLTeacher #TeachingEnglish #EnglishLearning #LearnEnglish #EnglishPodcast #TEFLPodcast #TeacherTips #TeachingTips #ClassroomManagement #ErrorCorrection #TeacherDevelopment #LanguageTeaching #HowToEnglishTimestamps00:00 – Intro & episode overview01:28 – Strengths and weaknesses as TEFL teachers09:04 – Exploring teaching weaknesses (and honesty time)20:21 – How to deal with distracted students24:27 – Starting from scratch with new students27:23 – Recognising student progress & using praise32:10 – Listener shout-out & teaching reflections33:11 – Outro & support the pod