I'm looking to go to china and teach English to kids from the ages of 2 and 6 anyone got any advice on lessons?

I've been offered work from a recruitment company in Beijing. They have told me i will have somewhere to stay for the first few days till i find my own place. Then they take me to the school and i do a lesson if all goes well i sign a contract with them. So if anyone has any advice on lesson planing for young kid i would be very grateful because i don't want to mess up and be stuck there with no job !!!I'm looking to go to china and teach English to kids from the ages of 2 and 6 anyone got any advice on lessons?
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http://www.taiwanenglish.com/games.phpI'm looking to go to china and teach English to kids from the ages of 2 and 6 anyone got any advice on lessons?
Between the ages of 2 and 6 children think very concretely. They learn with the help of visuals and activities and repetition. Rote learning (common in Asia) is not necessarily the best way to learn.


The previous answer regarding a TEFL course is, in my opinion, very helpful.


Be sure that teaching is what you want to get into. It needs commitment, perseverance, imagination and creativity. If it is not your cup of tea, then you should look for another job.





You will need all the help you can get. By the way, I hope you won't mind me mentioning that your spelling in the question is in need of correction. If you plan to teach English you must be careful with your own spelling and grammar. Your main error is using a small ';i'; instead of a capital ';I'; when referring to yourself in the middle of a sentence.





I hope you find a job that gives you fulfilment.
Hello,I'm a Chinese girl and I live in TianJin which is the city next to Beijing .I don't think teach 2 to 6 kids is a good idea.I think you should teach more older students.You can go to some junior or senior school to have a try.I think you can have more chance at there.Chinese people enjoy learning English and every student in Beijing need learn English.I think you can find job soon.Good luck to you.
I don't see how you agree to do that unless you have a place to stay and you are going to be in Beijing anyway. You are going to be at disadvantage -if they will see ';how it goes';...you should know how much they are paying you? where will you stay? etc...before you even go to the airport!


There are many schools that offers teaching positions and they will give you room and board and salary.
Do you have an ESL certification? Do you have 'very young student' experience or training? Please contact other employees of this company and inquire about their experiences. Visit local kindergartens and see what you may be getting into.You should know how to write/prepare lesson plans. Course books are available with grade/age suitable material.Good luck!
Take a TEFL course. Then you'll have a qualification in teaching and will have a very good understanding in how to do lesson plans among other teaching skills. You can do an intensive one in just a few weeks.
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Right, let's establish the behaviour procedures first. I know, sounds a bit dictatorial, but it's necessary for all ages.





Make sure that you stand at a point in the classroom where you can see every child. If you are allowed, structure the seating plan so you can always see them. While doing this, it may be a good idea to ask about any potential disruptors, loud children, chatty ones that get easily distracted, etc, so you can seat them accordingly. Also ask about any learning difficulties or disabilities. Boy-Girl seating plans work out well in minimising talks and distractions as students rarely reach across gender gaps to make friends at this age. Socialising is good, just not in the classroom!





An example. You have a chatty student and one who is deaf in one ear. So you seat the chatty one on the end of a table next to a member of the opposite gender, and the other student with their healthy ear facing where you will be speaking. Person with bad vision in one eye? Make sure you stand on the side of their healthy eye.





It's also a good idea to know the background of the children should the need for discipline arrive. Does one come from a rough family where there's always shouting? In this case, silence is your friend. They won't be used to it.





Shouting rarely suceeds. Silence is the best weapon if the class is disruptive. Stand there, make the right signals with your body language, perhaps hold up a hand counting down from 5. It's a good idea to set a simple signal at the start for when you want the class to focus their attention on you, such as when your hand goes up. This can be a good way to reign back in their attention when they are loud or it is the end of an activity.





Be informed on the weather that day. Is it going to be scorching hot? Children don't work well in blazing heat. Is it going to snow? Close the classroom blinds, because they're almost certainly going to bound out their seats to look and you can't hold the attention.





Plan out the lesson activities and rhe times you will allot to each. You need to make sure that you are aware how much time you have and be careful to stick to a time plan. Bring any equipment for the activities you will need in, and alternate from being exciting, loud, active to a quieter, more calming activity. Always end your lesson with one of the latter, super-hyper children at the end is not good, you want them to be calm. Their next teacher will love you for it. For instance, if you were teaching the colours, you could have a game where they got up and had to touch the colour in the room when you yelled it out. Then, after that's over and they've run about, calm them down with an unjumble of the words. Make sure you've taught the vocabulary beforehand though!





Ensure that they thoroughly understand the next activity. If you just explained the rules of a game, for instance, ask if anyone can please tell you what the rules are, and offer rewards such as stickers or sweets for doing so. Rewards are always encouraging, offer them for everything. The best behaved, the one who can learn the most words, the person who wins the game. It really gets them into it.





Always have contigency plans for activities. This is most urgent if you need equipment for it. Had some colour cards but they've gone missing? You need a backup plan, like using coloured objects around the room.





Props work wonders, especially on young children. Use puppets to ask them questions, for instance.





Try to speak in the language you are teaching when you can. Give your name in language, then ask them theirs in the language, tell them what it means and ask them to find one person in the room who they don't know and ask their name in the language. That sort of things. Cognates are especially good for this.





Be encouraging. Begin with the easiest words, such as cognates, and gradually work to the more difficult. If someone gets a question wrong, tell them it was a good try, thank them for the attempt, say that it was very close but just a tiny bit off, etc.





Do some research so you don't unintentionally offend. Obviously it is especially important not to offend Chinese values, but there are other groups. Buddhists compose the largest religion in China, so take care not to say or do anything which may offend them.





Good luck, I hope you get this new job and enjoy China!