• Appear confident and friendly
  • Establish and convey the relevance of the subject to your students
  • Use broad, animated gestures to emphaisze or reinforce points
  • Be creative and varied in your instructional approach
  • Be engaged and dramatic when you teach
  • Maintain eye contact with all students
  • Use varied pitch, volume, inflection, and pauses to make vocal delivery more interesting
  • Be patient
  • Be insistent that students successfully complete tasks
  • Be aware of and quickly deal with off-task behavior
  • Maintain a quick lesson pace
  • Have a sense of humor; be able to laugh at yourself
  • Use movement to maintain interst and attention
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