Best 5 Teaching Tips for a Beginner Teacher

We all cannot reach the highest stair of success directly. We start from somewhere, and constant growth and development take us to success in our jobs and careers. Similarly happens with the teaching profession. A beginner teacher, with time, improvement, betterment, practice, and experience becomes a well-trained and successful teacher. Let us discuss some effective tips that a new teacher can follow to impart quality education to the students, make their classes more meaningful, and achieve teaching goals and objectives. 

Teaching tips for a beginner teacher

1. Interact with your peer teachers

As a beginner, you are not well aware of all the systems, classrooms, events, and other activities happening in the schools or educational institutions. To become well aware of the school system and an active teacher, you can interact with other peer teachers. When in the staff rooms or during lunch breaks and other workshops, you can communicate with other educators of the school.

 You can ask them for better teaching strategies that they follow to have successful classroom teaching. You can tell them the practices and strategies which you are following in the class to seek feedback from experienced educators. The appreciation received will make you more confident. Also by receiving quality feedback and suggestions, you can improve in teaching. Strong interpersonal relationships formed with other peer teachers can make you feel comfortable, friendly, and motivated in the new environment too.

2. Take feedback from students

As you are new to the educational institution and classes, awareness about students’ needs, interests, ways of learning, and understanding is limited. After finishing your lectures, ask students to give their feedback. By seeking feedback from students, you get to know how well students understood. The appreciation received from students will motivate you and your confidence level will also be boosted. By knowing problems that students face, and suggestions can help teachers to make necessary additions and improvements in teaching skills. This will help teachers to make classes better for students.

3. Use technology in your classes

As every other teacher, you also have the aim to make your class participative and more of a student engagement. Teaching is not successful with teachers giving monotonous lectures. When students involve, relate, and interact their academic performance is enhanced and this makes teaching successful.

A beginner teacher, to achieve this aim must introduce technology in the classes. With the help of visualization and other audiovisual aids, students understand better. You can make a PowerPoint presentation on the lesson you want to teach. Other than this, you can use the best app for online teaching, to access tools such as modules, picture cards, educational videos, and quizzes.

4. Have general conversations with your students

As you are new to the classrooms, you are not well aware of students, their names, hobbies, interests, and other activities. To make students familiar and comfortable with you as well as to know your learners better, have general conversations with them. This will help you to teach effectively in both online classes and traditional classrooms.  You can start with introductions.

 After introducing yourself, ask students to introduce themselves one by one. This will help learners to feel valued and connected with you. Involve in their introductions. Show some gestures and maintain a smile on your face. This will help students to foster their relations with you. This will improve students’ engagement in class. Right behavior and better academic performance can also be expected.

5. Don’t compare yourself with other teachers, be optimistic

Comparisons are very unhealthy. It not only leads to self-doubt but also reduces one’s potential. You have just begun your teaching career, with time,  practice, and experience, excellence in teaching is achieved. But comparing yourself with other peer teachers can make you doubt your teaching skills. Self-doubting leads to negative thoughts and overthinking too.

 A mind occupied with negativity becomes less effective at work. This also lowers confidence and self-esteem in one. All beginner teachers should never compare themselves with others. Develop an optimistic mindset which helps you to keep moving for better growth and development. Welcome opinions, suggestions, and feedback from others and take them constructively.

 Conclusion

All the above-mentioned tips and techniques can be used by a beginner teacher to become successful in his or her teaching profession. By following these tips, any new teacher can impart quality education to students, connect with them better, and form strong interpersonal relationships. Also, this will help to enhance class engagement and student participation. The technique of taking feedback from peer teachers and students will help teachers to enhance their teaching skills too.