If you love your learners, if you love teaching, everything else will be taken care of automatically. If you do not have this love but take up the profession for other reasons, no amount of training will make you a good teacher. If you find you do not have the necessary love for the profession, please find other ways of fulfilling your needs. You will thank yourself for this decision for years to come.
In every profession it is important to keep current with new ideas, methods, technologies, research findings etc. Teachers should study, and like all other professional people, should try and stay current. No doubt English is the most important language in the world; therefore having great English skills will bring numerous advantages to a teacher, especially keeping with the demands of the emerging global market where English is seen as a tool of progress and success.
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