It is with great pleasure that we announce the next topic for KELTchat:
Building rapport with students
This is a topic that has had a long and storied career in the voting process, and was in a virtual tie with BURNOUT last round.
Some questions to consider (and perhaps discuss in the chat include:
- What is rapport?
- Is it important? If so, why is it important?
- Any observations related to rapport in the Korean context?
- What do you usually do to build rapport with students?
- What rapport building strategies would you like to try?
- Any rapport-related success stories to share? Any failures?
- What are some challenges to developing rapport you face or have faced?
- Any rapport-related resources to share?
- What rapport-related advice would you give to new teachers or younger versions of yourself?
Some possible pre-reading:
- Scott
ThornbushThornbury with R is for Rapport. - Mario Rinvolucri’s Six ways of improving relationships on the excellent (but inactive) 6 Things blog and as recommended on Twitter by the excellent Carol Goodey
- A very short piece from our friends at Teaching English: in which they define rapport.
- An #ELTchat summary on “Building rapport and confidence with students in ELT classes.
- Chris Ożóg with some insights on rapport (and teachers and yoga)
When will this take place?
Thanks for you interest.
The chat actually occurred on May 12th.
We hope to have a summary up in the next month or so.
Meanwhile, you can see all of the tweets here:
http://t.co/iBWoh5emFb
and perhaps join the KELTchat group on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/KELTchat/
Thanks again for stopping by!