Practical Features of

a Teacher

By: Ali Ghaffari

Punctuality

•Always in time !
Time Management

• PPP
• To have Lesson plan
• Using supplementary & story books
Meeting & Greeting

• warm up
• ask news
• eye contact
• warm & loud voice
General mood of Teacher
• Posture & Gestures
• Clothing = formal
• Keep problems behind the door
• Keep distance between T & Ss (don’t let Ss take advantage of U)
• Avoid bad habits = sitting on the table / white board/ biting fingers, ….
Class Management
Teacher’s voice
• Clear
• Loud enough
• Fluent
• Changing the intonation
*Preparation of the lesson:
*always revision of the previous lesson
* Extra Info ; being knowledgeable / have extra
vocab about Topic (or photos)
*Checking work book & home works
Teacher’s Adaptation
Teacher’s activeness & enthusiasm
Using Pair work & Group work
Using Humor & Body Language
Use of whiteboard
Prize of Ss

•+
•-
• ?!
Error Correction
Unknown words ?!
• Being up to date
• Ask Ss themselves find vocab and give
• Looking up from Dic
• Postponing to the next session
 Be careful !

• Fluency
• Accuracy
• Pronunciation
STT

TTT
 PPP
• Presentation
• Practice
• Production
Balanced instruction

•80/20 rule
•Teacher as facilitator not dictator