How to Improve Student Rapport in Seven Steps

[@ELTExperiences]

What are your favourite methods for developing and maintaining rapport? Feel free to share in the comments!!!

[@LucyMbang]

Be authentic. Do not fake happiness is what I like here. Thank you Sir for the seven steppes of maintaining good relation with students.

[@cactussrosa]

I love your videos, they're so helpful.

[@ELTExperiences]

Glad you like them!

[@anneel6174]

Love your content and style!

[@ELTExperiences]

I appreciate that! 😊

[@surrindersingh74]

I'd like to be the first to comment. Thank you again for another wonderful video, Martin. It was also relaxing to watch as much as it was for you to make, I hope? I like your last point about being culturally aware for an international audience. I teach a few female students in the Middle East, and as I'm male, the camera is nearly always turned off, so I am looking at a blank screen. At first, I found this quite challenging as I couldn't read my student's facial expressions or anything - something I've had to quickly get used to respecting a different culture/religious predisposition. Have you taught in this style as well? I'm sure you have with the years of teaching under your belt.

[@ELTExperiences]

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and I am pleased you enjoyed my ramblings. I once taught a diplomat's daughter from Iran. I once greeted the mother in the usual fashion but as soon as I extended my hand to say hello, and she withdrew immediately, I realised that I made a cultural faux pax. I apologised and proceeded to convey my message to say that her daughter had made progress during the lesson and was pleased that she was contributing well during the lesson. I apologised once again and then thanked her for her understanding. It is sometimes difficult to juggle between teacher and recognition between other cultures but having the pleasure to teach English to a range of nationalities has opened my eyes to a variety of cultures. I am so pleased to have the job as an English teacher and I really do appreciate you sharing your experience as well. See you next in our next episode. 😊

[@conorwilliams234]

Hi Martin, do you have any advice for teaching younger learners online? I find that the rapport doesn't always come as naturally as with adult students. How would you adapt your tone and manner for example? Thanks a lot. Your videos really help me with getting over some of the anxious hurdles that teaching can sometimes give rise to.

[@ELTExperiences]

Hello Conor and thank you for your comment. In terms of teaching young learners online, you will need to create a collection of puppets and flashcards which you could show to the webcam, much like what you would do in the classroom. I also try to include a series of small tasks during the lesson for the young learner to complete leading, which is all connected to the topic of the lesson. Perhaps I should create a video teaching online to a young learner to better give an idea how to structure lessons and how to adapt oneself.

[@andiamoci22]

get rid of the horrible microphone