Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher

Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher explores the skills that it takes to deliver exceptional language teaching and produce outstanding results. Offering support to all language teachers, it offers a wide range of approaches to teaching and learning that will help to keep students stimulated and engaged when studying languages.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Running a room
2. Dissecting a lesson: visuals
3. Dissecting a lesson: using written texts
4. Dissecting a lesson: task-based lessons
5. Enjoying sounds
6. Purposeful games
7. Getting grammatical
8. Words and chunks
9. Dissecting a lesson: speaking
10. Dissecting a lesson: writing
11. Teaching all abilities
12. Pace, questioning and other interactions
13. Moving them forwards
14. What makes an outstanding language teacher?
Conclusion

About the author

Steve Smith taught languages for over 30 years and is former Head of Modern Languages at Ripon Grammar School, UK. He now writes and presents for the AQA examination board in England and works with both trainee teachers and authors through frenchteacher.net, an online teaching resource which is widely used around the world. He is also author of Language Teacher Toolkit, a popular blog about language teaching methodology (frenchteachernet.blogspot.co.uk).

Summary

Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher explores the skills that it takes to deliver exceptional language teaching and produce outstanding results. Offering support to all language teachers, it offers a wide range of approaches to teaching and learning that will help to keep students stimulated and engaged when studying languages.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Smith, Steve (Education Consultant and Writer Smith, Steve (Education Consultant and Writer UK) Smith, Steve (St Mellitus College UK) Smith, Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Internatio Smith, Vice-Chancellor and Professor of International Relations Steve (St Mellitus College UK) Smith, Vice-Chancellor and Professor of International Relations Steve (University of Exeter) Smith
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138056633
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05663-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Becoming an Outstanding Teacher; Becoming an Outstanding Teacher
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system