Private Lessons or School Teaching?
The link above invites us to reflect on our own teaching contexts. By private lessons the author means one-to-one teaching and by school teaching, group teaching.
There are many viewpoints on this and I´d say from experience the answer is more than personal. Some teachers do not feel comfortable in a one-to-one situation whereas others might even feel intimidated by a group of students staring at the teacher! Still, there are those who manage both contexts with no effort.
To me it has more to do with personal styles, because if the teacher feels ok in a certain scenario they are most likely to display prodcutive performance anyways.
Teacher training should embrace them both in order to better prepare the language teacher.
I´ve always been in both situations and always loved paying attention to specific characteristics each one of them has. Like everything else in life, group teaching and private one-to-one teaching offer great advantages and nasty drawbacks.
