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Uploaded by on Jan 27, 2009

This video shows three negative teaching habits: talking to the board, echoing student comments, and interrupting students to supply answers. The teacher demonstrates alternative behaviors to help you change these ineffective approaches.

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  • lol "...we all done it"

    You should check your grammar before telling us all how to teach english.

  • @jptalkfulable2

    Actually he says "we've probably all done it."

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  • Yep I got that at the end, because the first time I saw the video I thought she was making a mistake, but let's imagine that's the case, you don't interrupt her, you let her finish and then you say: "there's something that you need to change" (you can give another tip or make gestures) and ask another student for help, so he/she can say taller than... What do you think? Is right what I'm saying? Or would you do it in another way?

  • If that were the case, then I think what you said would be a good error correction technique. It's always good to elicit the right answer from another student if you can (as long as you return to the original student and make sure they repeat the sentence with the correction).

  • Thanks for the comments! Actually, the student was looking at 2 different people at different heights on a ladder, not a short person and a tall person. Hope that clears it up.

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  • @jptalkfulable2 oooh grammar nazi strikes

  • @jptalkfulable2 Watch your manners dude!!

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  • Hey, thanks for this. It' really helpful.

  • good vids, though teachers have to be careful not to write too much on the board w/o interacting with students

  • thanx for the advice

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