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[fromtheuk]

I am a graduate from the U.K. with no previous teaching experience and no CELTA.

I did my first teaching alone last week. I taught a couple of specially gifted student classes.

This week I will teach the teachers and next week I will start to teach a parents class.

I managed to fill the whole lesson for my special class, but I did feel it was pretty awful.

The kids looked tired, bored and a few kids played around. I kept it under control but it felt difficult. It was in the late afternoon.

I impressed myself by how I managed to get through it, pretending to be competent.

Any advice on what I should teach the teachers? I will keep it basic.

What I like about this job is all I need to do is to turn up, look meaningful and put in some effort.

I am lazy, so I am going to have to borrow even more heavily from my regular classes.

[tob55]

there are plenty of websites with things to glean and take...all you need to do is become industrious enough to find them and you will have more than enough to keep you going...You wouldn't be the first or last person coming to this country who has limited or no teaching experience...

[Whistleblower]

Hello to a fellow Brit. I have been teaching in Korea for about 19 months now and I love it. The kids are a joy to work with and it is so rewarding when you see some achievement in the English. Currently I am teaching adults and there is a different sense of achievement. You can interact and prepare more appropriate material for adults rather than prepare colouring, cutting or sticking activities for kids.

I recommend that you buy some essential books that will help you prepare classes based around the four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing). There are more books available but I recommend that you concentrate on those four skills as the other skills (phonetics, etc) will follow suit.

Have a look at this website to get some ideas for books:
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/catalogue/catalogue.asp?cid=9

I also recommend that you use these websites to get some activities for students:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
www.bbclearningenglish.com
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish.htm

These are my favourite three websites to collect lesson plans.

Finally, I really recommend that you take a CELTA Course in Korea if you wish to feel some form of achievement in Teaching.

Hope that helps. Any questions PM me.

[tomato]

Tell us what the topic is, and then maybe we can give you some ideas.