Traditional teaching vs. 21st century teaching

     This are the top ten traits of the 21st century teachers ELT practicioner that we chose.


1. Use of technology

2. More approachment to the children’s needs

3. Use of visual aids

4. Learning by doing

5. Mistakes as part of the learning process

6. Teachers as guides

7. Learners as the center of the learning process

8. Use of the internet to get more information

9. Use of warm-up activities

10. Giving feedback after classes

     The salient traits between NESTs and non-NESTs

     NESTs and non-NESTs are all over the word, and there is always the big question: who is a better teacher? There are many differences between this two types of teachers. We are going to take some of those differences, and we are going to develope some of them. Note that we are not saying which teacher is better than the other. We are just making a comparison to point that even with those differences, both teachers play an important role in teaching English.

Academic vocabulary vs day-to-day vocabulary

     Non-NESTs try to teach vocabulary found in books in order to communicate in controled situations. On the other hand, NESTs focus their lectures on vocabulary used every day in real life situations.

Fluency vs accuracy

     Non-NESTs teachers are focused on developing students pronunciation. For non-NESTs teachers, fluency is the most important skill to develop for student while for NESTs teachers, accuracy (producing language with minimun effort) is what students need the most. 

Focus on form vs focus on forms

     Non-NESTs teachers focus their classes on the instruction of grammar rules while NESTs teachers focus their classes on developing communication skills.

     As we can see every teacher has a different way to teach the language, but at the end, there is not such thing as "the best teacher."