TEFL Reviews

I learned that a good teacher is kind, loves teaching, and wants to help students as much as possible...

The unit provided a description with examples of what the engage, study, and activate stage may look like when teaching vocabulary and introducing grammar structures...

I thought the information on the various roles of the teacher was very interesting, because I had never thought about it too much...

I learned that the two receptive skills are reading and listening and the two productive skills are speaking and writing, and that these four skills are all of equal importance when teaching and learning English...

This unit pointed out the importance of vocabulary,grammar and function in teaching a new language...

I feel that I learned so many things from this unit, is interesting to learn new teaching thecniques, I consider myself very lucky to study English in a country where English is the first official language...

This unit focused on the different needs, possible challenges and teaching ideas for various class types...

From this unit, I've learnt the tenses related to future expressions...

Unit 12 was on teaching productive skills, which are speaking and writing...

Unit ten was diffferant than the other units so far because it presented the information through videos so I wasn't just reading and writing notes, I found myself more engaged in what the unit was trying to cover...

This unit explores the two receptive skills: reading and listening...

After learning everything you need to know as an english language instructor,it becomes very necessary for you to practice what you have learnt...

From this unit, I learned modal auxiliary verbs and the passive voice...

This section covered a mix of conditionals and reporting speech...

When it comes to selecting vocabulary to teach, teachers have to consider properly as students may find it off-putting if words chosen are far beyond their language level, especially for those beginners...

I found the links in the unit very useful...

The theme of this unit is evaluation and testing...

Unit 9 discusses the importance of Lesson Planning...

In this unit, I learned about the various methods for evaluating and testing students who are learning English...

In this unit, I was able to see two examples of the same teacher giving the same lesson in different ways...

This unit covers more unique or specialized types of English classes, such as teaching small children, individual lessons, or business employees...

This unit goes over teaching special groups...

Writing a lesson plan has three important functions: 1) An aid to planning, 2) a working document, 3) A record Basic principles of lesson planning: - Keep it simple - Avoid scripting - Structure and maintain - Write anticipated time for each structure - Check for balance of skill - Adapt/remain flexible Lesson Organisation: - Check for lesson plan - Preparation of lesson aids - Check the equipment - Arrange seating - Clear whiteboard - Chat/interact with entering students A lesson plan should include: - Learner objectives - Personal Aims - Language Point - Teaching aids - Anticipated problems - Procedure - Phase - Timing - Interaction - Class level - # students - Date/time - My & observer's name...

This unit reviewed the teaching of the productive language skills: speaking and writing...

To assess students' language level, teachers can give tutorials, evaluations by students, or testings...

I found the video lessons in Unit 10 to be extremely helpful...

In this brief lesson, I learned about some of the different testing methods in the TEFL education system, and how they can be used...

In the unit 3 I learned theories, methods and techniques how teach the language...

The teacher has a number of teaching aids and equipment that can be utilised to facilitate the learning process for students...

Receptive and productive skills are equally important and wherever possible we should try to incorporate all of them into our lessons if we want to have a balanced approach...

This unit held a lot of new information to me and it made me a little nervous about my future as an English teacher...

Pronunciation is probably the most neglected aspect of English language teaching...

There are 4 past tenses...

The content of this unit is about teachers and learners...

The difference between the two lessons was dramatic...

The videos show two contrasting teaching experiences...

Teaching is about maximizing the potential of students...

Inexperienced teachers must be patient about troubleshooting...

This section talks about how to go about seating students or different ways to pair students so that everyone is learning and so that nobody is being left out...

As somebody who has spent time learning another language this lesson was very interesting because I know it is something that I have struggled with feeling confident in receptive skills, listening in particular...