some people say that teaching adults is more fruitful than teaching kids in that it helps with your personal growth. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Use personal experience and references to strengthen your arguments.

The

first

thing that I found is that

One

of the most proven differences between adult and young learner

classes

is “

class

management”.

Although

kid’s

classes

seem to be more fun and kinesthetic, in adult

classes

you are not supposed to spend a considerable amount of time

on

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explaining

about

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the classroom rules.

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you have more time to teach and assign interesting tasks.

This

might help you not to get work burn-out which is a great concern for many of us since after a while we might lose our interest in teaching.

In addition

to having more time to design various classroom activities which can help you to improve your creativity tremendously. As an example, I started my teaching career with a

class

full of 18 students. They were boys

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aged around 6-10 and as I entered the

class

late because of the car accident that I had that day, they were shouting and jumping in the

class

. I introduced myself but the

class

was too noisy and scorching since it was

such

a small

class

without any fans or air conditioners

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the middle of July. I got panicked as I couldn’t manage the

class

but I started to play games with them and ask them to draw their favourite toy. The

class

its self was

such

a disaster, students didn’t have any motivation to continue the

class

so that I was too stressed. I was prepared for the

class

however

, I didn’t consider

class

management as

one

of my anticipation problems. To be honest, after years of teaching,

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I am dealing with

this

problem in my

classes

.

Secondly

, when you are teaching adults, you get to know people from different professions, industries, and educational backgrounds in comparison to kids who have a limited range of experiences. As

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consequence of it, you can have a variety of topics to discuss in the

class

. In these sorts of

discussions

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you have to surf the internet and as you would check different websites and watch plenty of videos on YouTube. your world knowledge would be expanded so is your General English.

For instance

, I remember I was working on a project about the smart watering system with Raspberry-pi. Meanwhile,

one

of my students proposed an idea about considering the cold weather as

one

of the anticipated problems. I wasn’t aware of it before and as he mentioned it, I realized my system would be ruined in the

next

couple of weeks.