14 Fundamentals That ALL English Teachers Need to Know

These are critical if you want to teach English!
Hello ESL teachers! In this video, I'm covering the basics of English teaching. I've got over a dozen fundamental concepts that all English teachers need to know to level-up their skills in the classroom.
I highly recommend watching the entire video if you're relatively new to teaching (but you pros might also learn something too).

Some (but not all) of the ESL methodology topics covered...
TEFL certification
The 4 Systems
The 4 Skills
Classroom Dynamics
STT/TTT
Teacher vs Student centered classrooms
Pair and Group work
L1 vs L2
Eliciting and CCQing
Using Translation
Guided Discoveries
Inductive vs Deductive teaching
Accuracy and Fluency error correction
Feedback
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00:00 Intro
00:36 TEFL Certification
01:07 P1 What you teach
02:08 P2 Classroom Dynamics
04:41 P3 L1 vs L2
06:12 P4 Teaching
08:00 P5 Lesson Planning
12:01 P6 Error Correction