3 Amazing Steps to Grow Your Career as a Teacher who Speaks English as a Second Language.

As a teacher who speaks English as a Second Language, you might feel that you spend way too much time trying to improve your English, only to continue to have trouble when:?

• You speak English and your colleagues and students have a hard time understanding you.
• You don’t understand or know how to use English teaching vocabulary.
• You feel challenged when participating in meetings in English.
• You struggle to understand native or non-native English speakers.
• You have difficulties writing professional business emails.

You’ve watched countless videos, studied grammar books, and even spent money on courses promising better English in a short amount of time.

However, you're still not at the level you want to be at in your career.

The truth is that if you keep doing what you do, you're going to burn out before you ever reach the level of English proficiency you wanted.

Instead of continuing to learn everything, you need to focus on what you need to advance your communication skills in English that is specifically designed for teachers who speak English?as a Second Language like yourself.

Let me use an analogy to help you understand.

Let’s say your vitamin C level is low, and you want to fix it.?

Instead of taking concentrated vitamin C pills, you decide to take multivitamin pills.

You know what’s going to happen next. You can take multivitamin pills every day, but your vitamin C level will not improve as much as you’d like because you are not focused on solving the problem.

It seems very straightforward, but this is exactly what has happened to your English learning journey.

You have tried to learn everything about English, but really, you only need to focus on learning the English that you need to advance your communication skills.

To improve your English so you can improve your job performance and secure future career opportunities, you need to follow these 3 steps.

1. Build your Communication Foundation

WHY is this needed? If you don’t know the vocabulary and culture in teaching, you will express yourself with general vocabulary and wouldn’t be accurate with your colleagues and students which will cause confusion and poor communication. Also, you will have difficulties understanding your students which will harm the dynamics of the class and lower your confidence in the class. Therefore, it will affect your teaching.

HOW can they achieve? To understand culture and vocabulary understanding, you will know different teaching positions in schools and education systems and learn the most common teaching vocabulary that is used in the teaching industry, such as usual idioms. phrasal verbs and expressions. Using flashcards and questioning strategies will help you to master the vocabulary to become an expert teacher in your classroom.

2. Improve your Communication Clarity

WHY is this needed? Pronunciation and accent are essential to make efficient communication with the purpose to create a comfortable and fluent conversation. Also, both of them will show employers your English proficiency and will determine you to be successful in a job interview.

HOW can they achieve? Practice makes perfect! You will implement different games and activities to improve your pronunciation, intonation and specific useful regular, linked and reduced sounds in English to soft your accent and become more natural and competent in?both your teaching role and daily life.

Enhance your Presentation Skills

WHY is this needed? As teachers, we are constantly presenting content, ideas and feelings to our pupils. So, it is a priority to develop our presentation skills to engage students, communicate better and become inspiring role models to the educational community either in the classroom or virtual and face to face meetings. Moreover, presentation skills and building confidence are key points in job interviews to express yourself impressively and stand out from the crowd to get your dream job.

HOW can they achieve? Using naturally and efficiently body language while talking is important so that you will use presentation tips to feel confident and be able to enjoy during your presentations using lexical, grammar structures, linked words and expressions to master it as Barack Obama. On the other hand, you will work on your growth mindset skills in your interview skills as the key to success.

3. Enhance your Professional Teaching Writing

WHY is this needed? Excellent professional emails provide a great impression to students, families, colleagues as well as employers and recruiters if your main goal is to find a job since it is a decisive aspect in the selection of candidates. Also, it is crucial to write outstanding application forms using specific wording that will highlight you personally and professionally to differentiate yourself from other teachers.

HOW can they achieve? Tailored teaching email templates will be provided to you in different contexts as model resources. In addition to this, you will create either professional emails following a formal and structured format or more informal and friendlier emails to send to your colleagues in your daily routine tasks. Thus, you will improve spelling mistakes and master them using exceptional apps to show great professionalism.

I have been working as a teacher both in English speaking countries and in Spain and I have always been improving my English skills to find career opportunities. Therefore, I was in your current situation in the past, I put myself in your shoes and I would be more than happy to help you to enhance your English communication skills with the purpose to achieve your teaching goals.

Feel free to send me a message if you would like to improve your job performance and secure future career opportunities by advancing your communication skills in the shortest amount of time!