Other ways of becoming a successful English as a foreign language tutor are listed and explained below. As an EFL tutor, this article not only helps you keep your job, it helps you improve while you are at it. The first part of this article dealt with the student aspect but this second part deals with improving on your tutorage from both the student and employer aspect.

Know your students individually

In continuation of part 1, which dealt with reading and understanding your students, it is also important that as an efl tutor, you get to know your students on an individual basis. This should not prove to be too difficult because in Taiwan and most Asian language schools there are usually less than 30 students in a class on the average. One big advantage of knowing your students on individual basis is that you are able to monitor any progress you are making. With the information you have and had on your students after a while you know that when you started taking a particular class, student A was not able to construct good sentences but after a while with you in charge student A is now able to construct good sentences. This way, you are actually able to follow any progress you are making.

If you are foreign to the cultures of the students who you are taking, you should do try as much as you can to get information on that particular culture and start learning the ways of the culture. Learning the culture of your students helps you to know how they think which in turn would fine-tune the way you teach them. Also as a result of learning and knowing their culture, you would now be in a better position to do some particular things. A case of a tutor asking his students to look at him in the face would not occur once the tutor knows that the culture of such students dictate they do not look at elders in the face while talking to them. Just like in western culture where facial contact seems to be an indication that the students are listening, Asian culture says that kids do not look elders in the face. If you really must use the facial contact between you and your students you would ask knowing that you are asking them to do something which they normally are not supposed to do. 

Have a positive attitude

A positive attitude is very important. People generally can read faces and attitudes. While teaching, you need to make it sound easy enough for your students to want to learn and pick up on anything you tell them. Telling them that the English language is a very difficult language is definitely going to slow down your progress. Students who signed up for your language classes themselves have a reason for wanting to learn the language but what happens when you are teaching students who did not have plans or a reason to learn the English language. What happens when you are teaching the English to students because your school has made learning it compulsory? You need to give your students a renewed vigor to learn the language every time you step into the class. Also, let this show in the way you teach. You need to simplify your teachings in such a way that you are still passing over the message for each class but in a simple way. Even if it is going to call for an extra-curricular means of teaching like telling stories, simplifying your teachings makes your work easier by allowing your students grasp your teachings faster.

Always try to give assignments from time to time and when you do not give assignments, try giving out some kind of non-compulsory homework. Tell your students to go check up some information when they get home. Again, you should apply discretion when giving out home works based on the kind of students you would be taking. Adult students may not need as much home works as kid students.

Your positive attitude is not complete until you also carry it over to your employers. Even if you were semi-forced to take the job or you took with some bizarre conditions which no longer tickle your fancy, your attitude towards your employers matter. Let them know you are capable of handling the job. Let them know you indeed loved the job before and after you took it. Show them your desire and willingness to teach the students which you will be teaching and if you occasionally come into problems such as  hearing disrespectful comments in class or problems with any particular student or even the whole class, it will be better to report such cases to your employers. This does not mean you should not take your own action when such incidents occur. You should because you do not want your students thinking of you as someone without any authority (things may actually get worse if you do not take good steps to cure such behaviors one your own).    

Also, do not be too fast to ask for a raise. If you just got your job, let your employers see the usefulness in you before doing so. When we say the usefulness in you, we mean that your employers should be aware that you are truly making good progress with the students you are teaching. Those who earn high salaries do so because they are not easily replaced.

Becoming a successful efl tutor in a country foreign to that of the tutor is quite easy. Once you know what you are doing and what you are supposed to do.