Teaching One to One by Richard Carroll
Channel: ELT Ireland
Date: 2017-10-20

This talk is based on personal experiences of teaching one-to-one classes both in Dublin and in Wexford. The classes in Dublin were quite demanding, usually involving one – usually mature - student for a week of up to 8 hours each day. The experience at Slaney was equally challenging and rewarding, although the time spent with the students was much less. These students were usually much younger which brought its own problems and led to the discovery of some interesting solutions. The differences teaching in these two scenarios will be examined in this talk; looking at what problems arose and what attempts were made to deal with them.

Richard’s background is in radio and tv, and he also studied law before getting into teaching in 2015. He took the Celta in September of that year and has been teaching more or less full time since then, both in Dublin and Wexford. This year he taught young learners for the first time.