Curious to see the results of these teaching methods! As I've been teaching English 15 years in China! I can see many TPR methods ofcourse! In this kind of courses, kids are like watching TV and they need to be more active! Never going to replace real glass teaching!! Interesting to see you teaching! Keep up!
Love your videos! I just started with VIPKID my first class is tomorrow!!! I've loved your tips and advice! I'm also a once classroom (Utah) teacher now stay at home mom. I'm so excited for this opportunity to continue teaching but at the same time be home with my babies. Thanks for this ESL tips! I don't have a lot of ESL teaching experience. I taught in Morgan and it's not a very diverse community so these tips are great!
Laci! So much fun connecting here! What a small world:) Thanks for commenting and sharing a little info about yourself! I love connecting with fellow teachers!
Yo, Nance! As always, enjoying the videos! I started my VIPKID experience 2 Tuesdays ago with my first class, and I've complete 71 classes so far! Love your tips, girl :)
You look silly in a good way:) I love this video. I teach online but had trouble teaching kids , most of the time struggling for making things more fun for them. For adult learners , it's easier but teaching kids is much better because there's a lonh term study. THANK YOU
Great tips, thank you!! FYI Target has some awesome mini magnet/dry erase marker boards with magnetic numbers and letters in their dollar bin aisle. They're really perfect for online teaching! Maybe I should post stuff like this in the forum?
You are brilliant! My school is switching to online until we are allowed to open again (corona virus). We will not be live to our students, we are prerecording videos for them. I was really struggling to think of how to go about it (I have pre K to K students) and your videos have given me so much inspiration. Thank you so much you amazing, bubbly lady!
Awesome Nancy😍 I liked it so much.. Could you kindly tell me about the best duration for kids during the online session according to their attention span&age (5_10)years old?
Love your videos! They're so helpful! I have a question about writing feedback to the parents for the class. How specific do you get? Do you provide a lot of information or just generally how the class went?
Great question! I add specifics about the class in a sandwich style format. Positive, constructive, positive. I will leave specifics such as things the student understood and did well, behavior, words to work on, concepts to that we will continue to practice (verb conjugation), reading skills, writing etc. The parents appreciate specific feedback although it does take a little bit more time! You will get your typing skills down:) Keep up the great work!
Hi Nancy! I love your videos! I am currently in the process of preparing for practicum 2. Did you have to complete practicum 2? If so - do you have any tips for the memory game and how to teach it?! I am stumped! Thank you!! :)
Erica! When I interviewed it was different, but I am actually a Mock Class Mentor and get to see many teachers teach this slide! I usually teach each vocabulary word by saying, "What is this?" (x, fox, ox) and circle one at a time. Then have the student say the word several times. Only do one row at a time. I then switch to the next slide when they are covered and circle one that we learned and say, "What is this?" They will then say, "X" and then I refer back to the previous slide to see if they are correct! It goes fairly quickly even though you are switching back and forth!! If you haven't already done your MC2 I hope this helps!!!
Hi Nancy! I use a Logitech webcam and of course we need to have our background not backwards. So, I was wondering how you/one deals with the weird angle where it's backwards for me when using props, etc. I know that probably makes no sense whatsoever 😨
Your directions are backwards and the letters that you sky write, but words are not. It took me awhile to mirror the sides that I was working with, but you get it down quicker than you think!! Hope my answer made sense:) Happy Teaching!
Some students need more help than others. I pick and choose what to correct with my students that make a LOT of pronunciation issues. We focus on a few set sounds to really solidify and learn. If you are constantly correcting everything on these students you will make them discouraged and class will be 2 slides long. You are very right. Most students only make a couple errors and are placed correctly on their levels for the lessons.
