VI. Compare traditional teaching and 21st century teaching.

Top ten traits of the 21st century ELT practitioner (teacher’s profile)

1.    Adapting

Teachers must know about new technologies, and they should use them in order to make the class better. The knowledge they have about technologies should be used in the classroom with new techniques for the students learning.

2.    Being Visionary

Teachers must have a big imagination in order to use the technologies in the class, and make the students work and learn with this tools.

3.    Collaborating

As teachers we must share, contribute, adapt and invent new ways to teach for making a better class; this must be a priority for us.

4.    Taking Risks

The teacher must take risks with the new technologies and devices, and plan the class integrating these tools knowing that there is so much to learn.

5.    Learning

Teachers expect students to le life-long learners, so teachers must keep learning new things for teaching their students and make them better through the time.

6.    Communicating

Teachers should have a good rapport with their students, but they should keep a good control and management of the class. The good communication among teacher and students should be inside and outside the class.

7.    Modelling Behaviour

This means that teachers must behave and be a role model for their students; we must show them a good way to behave with values and tolerance for making them see a good way to become better people.

8.    Leading

Teachers know how to leader the class using new technologies and making the class even better from before.

9.    “Can Do” Attitude

Practitioners must to believe in what they are doing; they are looking betters ways to teach. 

Also, they are making a good rapport with the students.

10. Effective Communicator

Teachers must be excellent communicators; this mean they have to know how to communicate in either oral or written form.

The salient traits between NESTs and non-NESTs

There are big differences between NESTs and non-NESTs, and the language learning process can be affected by this reason. NESTs are the teachers that have English as their mother tongue and non-NESTs are the ones that have English as their second language; also, non-NESTs have the advantage of understand and be aware of the mistakes the students can make. NESTs focus more in fluency, but non-NESTs focus more in grammar rules.

And we also think...

The teacher of the 21^st century must be able to:

1.       Create and edit digital audio. (songs, activities)

2.       Exploit some digital images for classroom use.

3.       Use video content to engage students.

4.       Use social networking sites to connect with colleagues and grow professionally.

5.       Create and deliver asynchronous presentations and training sessions.

6.       Have knowledge about online security.

7.       Create screen capture videos and tutorials.

8.       Use and provide students with task management tools to organize their work and plan their learning.

9.       Exploit computer games for pedagogical purposes.

10.   Use digital assessment tools to create quizzes.

Everybody says that native speakers teachers are better than  non native speakers teachers because they were born in a country which they use the mother tongue, and they are the gold standard of spoken and written language, whereas the non nests are inferior educators because they lack this innate linguistic skill.

Non Nests:

They are perceived as good teachers of grammar. ( its true because they are focus on grammar structures.)

They are able to help the students on their first language. When is necessary teachers can explain  to the students in the first language.)

Students find class with them easier.( students have confidence.)

They don’t take care about pronounciation.

Nests:

They are the ideal model for language production.(they have the perfect pronounciation.)

Their speech is held up as the gold standard of grammatical correctness.

They have the correct pronounciation.

They are able to share a new culture.(students are expose to learn from them a new culture.)

I have noticed everything I wrote in this page because Students are able to ask the teaches in a good way, but sometimes they pushing you to have a better pronounciation even when they are not native speakers.