TESOL/TEFL qualified planning, preparing and delivering lessons preparing teaching materials helping pupils improve their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills via individual and group sessions checking and assessing pupils' work organising and running specialist courses attending social events Excellent spoken and written language skills, with English and foreign languages Clear diction Patience Lateral thinking Confidence Providing support to children with mathematics, reading and writing on an individual, class or small group basis Giving extra help to children with special needs or those for whom English is not their first language Helping to develop programmes of learning activities and adapting appropriate materials Motivating and encouraging pupils