How Should the Teacher Be in Terms of Preparation, Academic Background and Personality in Order to Be in Charge of an English Course?

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¿How should the teacher be in terms of preparation, academic background and personality to be in charge of an English course?

The ideal class is the dream of any teacher. It is as if we wanted to know the magic secret to make the class everybody would like to attend. There are requirements, techniques, ways, and exercises to take into account in order to make a class that everybody would say: this is the class I will never forget. The preparation of the teacher is essential for this purpose but is not the only factor to make a good class. Although the preparation and ability to teach creatively are the key elements that could give us the desired magic wand to make an awesome English class, it depends not only on these two elements but most on the strong desire of the student for their own learning. there are a lot of people studying right now, some are happy some are not that happy, some make comments saying: this is a good class, some say this is not a good class. We have a lot of complaining about why students are bad prepared. Putting the blame on the teacher’s shoulders is the first thing that comes to mind. Resent test reports show that students are not doing well. Somebody has to be accountable for this, and guess what; the teachers are the best option to be considered as the primary cause of failure of the students; that would be the explanation of why students do poorly on tests and other assignments.

Results given by tests should be good if the students are receiving the proper classes in the right environment, with the right attitude and most of all with the ideal class and the ideal teacher.
Research helps us to understand better what is behind all of these facts. ¿what makes a person to decide...

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...ledge. Even if we do not have the desired aforementioned characteristics of an ideal class, anyone with a strong will, could go beyond of those who are in classes that possess those characteristics.

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