Every service or product that a customer buys from the market expects zero malfunctioning and that is why he/she always asks for a demonstration prior to buying. If you're aiming at teaching English as a foreign language, remember that this service is extremely delicate and you must provide an effective teaching demo to order to please the learners.
What is demo teaching?
A question that often arises that ‘what is demo teaching?’ and following by this another question that pops up is how to prepare for a demo lesson. A demonstration or a demo lesson is an explanation of how the item works practically. Teaching demonstrations is a practical display of how an ESL teacher shall be delivering the lecture in a real classroom teaching. If you want to go for an online ESL application, a demo of your teaching practice has to be extraordinarily good because you can only communicate with your learners on a virtual learning platform.
Irrespective of where you plan to teach English either online or offline, your teaching job must have a well-groomed demonstration. Needless to say, you must have 120 hours of the online TEFL program to crack TEFL jobs. Since work from home is the new normal and many non-English speaking countries are restricting the entry of ESL teachers from other nations, you can provide your service as an online course.
Tips to follow:
The first thing that you must keep in mind while collecting your lesson plan as a demo service is that your personality must keep shining. A TEFL teacher must have that solid first impression so that students feel interested to learn from him/her. A first impression matters a lot and it includes how a teacher must represent his/her teaching as well as communication skills.
The next thing that comes up is called classroom management. Well, nobody can assure you that the online learning platform you shall be explaining your teaching service will be a small batch or a large batch. Therefore, you must be aware of how to manage a bunch of students. Young learners and primary school students are always enthusiastic and they often become restless owing to their excitement. Whereas, adult learners like business professionals are pretty mature, and breaking the ice has to be smooth over here to get a handsome TEFL job.
Confidence is one of the most essential keys to getting success. If you don't have faith in your capabilities, you shall be pulled down every now and then. Hence, always be confident about your potential and let your aura radiate the dazzling confidence when you're up for a demo session.
Your explanations must be crisp and subtle so that your students learn the required things. Wasting time while blabbering unnecessary stuff creates a bad notion that the teacher is over here just to gossip. Thus, before logging in to the demo session keep the entire lesson plan handy and go with the flow.
Every project needs grave research work and the collection of data must be authentic. Before stepping in, an ESL teacher must have the knowledge about the batch of students he/she shall be imparting the lesson. A batch of young learners must have a unique style of lecture delivery than that of adult learners. Being a TEFL teacher you should have an idea of the age group of your students and if you can get information about the background, it is going to be the cherry on the top!
Let's say, once you're done with the demo session the interviewer and students might have a few questions for you. Fasten the seatbelt and be honest. You should never fake any achievements of yours because that is illegal and also just in order to get the job, do not commit to something you're not comfortable enough for. The latter might hamper your job satisfaction level in the long run.
The last thing is that your attire must not be too funky or too basic. We all know that end of the day it's all about the talent that we have but then again visuals matter. Had it just skills and no presentation, we would all have considered Crow, the national bird of India, and not Peacock. Hence, you must look significantly presentable while giving a demonstration of your teaching skills.
The ultimate thing is that your TEFL certification will help you to fetch good quality English teaching jobs abroad but it is you on the day of the interview who'll crack the job. The placement that is being provided will guide you through thick and thin and shape you for your upcoming days. So, chin up, be confident and go for the demo class. You're definitely going to nail it1
Written By : Ruchi Mehta
