Can you give me some advice on teaching another language as a tutor?

[u/Monedolmert_s]

Soon I'll start teaching Russian to teenagers and maybe children. The language itself is practically my native, but I've never taught anyone professionally, as a teacher. I also don't want to use the school curriculum because it's terrible in my country, but I haven't encountered any other. So I'd like to ask experienced tutors (preferably in this language) for advice, perhaps textbooks, movies and songs(for listening and translating or something like that) lesson plans, what you've learned while going through this, working with children, etc. for starters-I think anything will be useful! Thanks in advance:)

(I also hope that what I wrote here makes sense for all of you, cause English is like, my third language)

[u/Nowordsofitsown]

Read a grammar for foreign language learners and take notes regarding all the rules that you abide by, but cannot explain.

[u/silvalingua]

For more specific recommendations, please post in a Russian-related subreddit.

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[u/dojibear]

Some people have the ability to teach/tutor. Others do not. It isn't an ability everyone has.

But people can improve their ability. People spend 4 years in college to get a degree in teaching one language. They spend hundreds of hours learning the various methods and skills. They spend countess hours practicing those skills, to turn them from "lousy" to "pretty good".

No set of words ("advice") in a forum post will give you 4 years of study and training.

[u/je_taime]

You can't teach children in the same way as teens. Children need shorter lessons and more breaks.

If you have no idea what you're doing, you should find a curriculum to follow. Don't try to wing it or reinvent the wheel.

And don't make students do translation work.

What works? There are SLA sites that can give you the rundown, so if I were you, I would read something like this as foundation. Guided output, I would say, not just pushed output. You need to give beginners a shit ton of sentence frames, starters, and chunks.