Name: Ronnie’s #1 Tip for Teachers
Uploaded: 2025-07-27T18:10:16.000Z
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Hello, there, everyone out in wherever you are.

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My name's Ronnie, and this might be the first time you're ever watching me.

Or the 42nd time, or you just watch me all the time.

But I'm an English teacher, and through my years, 25 years, oh, am I that old of teaching?

I've come across a lot of teachers, not metal English teachers, but my personal teachers that they're just not really good.

They don't have anything against them, they look good, they don't smell bad, take showers, but they're just...

They're lacking something, some magic about how to teach people.

I mean, really, honestly, anyone can be a teacher if you go to school and go to university and get your teaching degree, like, whoa, graduation, I'm a teacher, yeah.

I learned teaching through my experience, through, oh my god, so many mistakes I made.

I don't even want to go into the mistakes I made, but I want to share this with you because I've taken English teaching courses that I had to take.

And it all comes down to you and your ability to communicate with your classroom, your ability to be a nice person, a warm person, someone that the students want to learn from.

And so, to do this, I wrote a book, and I know that's crazy because I hate reading.

I hate reading, but I did write a book, and I want to share with you one excerpt from my book that I hope helps you in your path of teaching.

Maybe you've been doing this for a while and you're just like, oh my god, I want to read something funny by my book.

Or if you're new at teaching, or new to teaching, and you're like, I don't know where to start.

You can look at, you can read, and basically I just want to help you because there are some tricks, there are some magic to this whole teaching thing.

I told you at the beginning of the video I've made loads of them, but this one I'm not focusing on myself.

I want to focus on our students because, hey, they're what makes us come to work every day and put on a clean shirt and teach them.

If it wasn't for our students, we'd have no job.

I wouldn't have food, I wouldn't get to eat cookies every day.

We make mistakes, but we have to learn how to fix them.

So, especially with younger or new... not younger, but newer students, students that are just beginning to speak English, they're going to make loads of mistakes.

And what you don't want to do, okay, is single students out.

You don't say, hey, you said this word wrong.

How do you think that makes the student feel?

If I was that student, I would not come back to your class.

Don't make examples out of the student that doesn't know or doesn't make a mistake.

People are in your classroom to learn, to get encouraged, to have confidence when they're speaking this new language.

Make them feel like they want to learn about this stuff.

I have a teacher, and I'm taking music lessons.

I've never played this instrument before.

All of a sudden, during our practice, the conductor will stop, point at one person in the back-that's me-and say, Ronnie, you did that wrong.

And he gets angry, and I'm like, dude, why are you getting angry?

If I was a professional at this, if I make a mistake, oh, shit, that's pretty bad.

But if you're practicing something or you're learning something, please, don't get angry or mad at your students.

Don't say things like, oh, you aren't listening to me.

They're listening, but they don't understand.

Don't ask the person who made the mistake to correct it, because obviously they don't know the answer.

My math teacher would say, okay, Ronnie, what's 42 minus 3?

As many times as you ask me, I still am not magically going to know the answer, like 38, that's 39.

The person obviously doesn't know the answer.

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