What Makes a Competitive Teacher at Present?

Nowadays the globalization and the politic of the countries directed to the closest relationship in all spheres of life and the hard situation on the labour market has changed the usual question “how to be a good English teacher” to “how to become a competitive one”. Hence, a competitive English teacher should be a good one in any way. Now, let’s see what makes a competitive English teacher?

Firstly, any teacher should be a perfect psychologist. He or she has to feel the atmosphere of a class and know that each student is an individual. That’s why they need the special individual approach for more effective teaching. Besides, a teacher should encourage students in any situation and hence, be aware of the character peculiarities of each student and probably their relationship with families and other students.

Secondly, they require a competitive teacher to have different skills besides of the knowledge of the language. A teacher should have the public speaking skills because in some way a teacher is an orator whose audience is students and the aim of a teacher is to encourage and make the students interested in some points of the topic. Moreover, the dramatic skills can’t but use in the teaching. Every lesson is a kind of a performance and it also influences the attention of the students and increases their attention. And even the most essential skill is the organizational one.  A teacher is first of all an organizer who is running the whole teaching process.

 Thirdly, a really competitive teacher is such one who is increasing his/her skills during the whole life. I mean the participation in conferences of the profiled subject and the learning from different sources (for example, from the Internet or even from the students). 

So, a competitive teacher includes a good teacher because of the attitude of the government, the whole process of globalization and the high level of the concretion on the labour market. But nevertheless, the request to a competitive teacher is almost the same as to a good teacher. He or she should be a good psychologist, increasing all his/her skills during the whole life.