English To Kenya

Kenya, regarded by many scholars as the cradle of humanity, offers fantastic opportunity for the adventurous spirit. Truly magnificent wildlife parks, unspoilt beaches and coral reefs are in abundance, not to mention a wealth of history in the ancient Swahili cities. The population is a shade under thirty-two millions, with a landmass of two- hundred and thirty square miles. The language is Swahili and religious observance is divided into thirty-five percent Protestant, thirty percent Roman Catholic, thirty percent Muslim and five percent Animist - so plenty of diversity to be found here. Kenya has a chronic shortage of secondary school teachers, and this adds up to a great deal of opportunity. English is the language of tuition in schools, and one can expect to teach English and…In...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kenya Nakuru and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Teaching equipment is definite a blessing from God. An ESL teacher can do a million things in the classroom when technology is there to be used. Computers, overhead projectors, smart boards are just a few things to help you teach the best class ever. The downside to so much technology is the money problem. Not every culture, country or school has the funds to be able to afford all this. Teaching technology equipment for a classroom is expensive. They always need places where it all can function...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Nakuru Kenya and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 6 discussed the following past tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, and Past Perfect Continuous. In great detail, the material covered form, usage, and common mistakes often made concerning each individual tense. In addition, teaching ideas for the activate stage were covered for each tense. The video portion for this unit was a great help to me; the combination of text and a visual spoken lecture made me differentiate between the different past tenses more easily.The materials...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Mombasa Kenya and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: The overview of this concept was the different types of methodologies that were presented both in negative and positive connotation. I learned that the method that this program incorporates is the ESA (Engage Study and Activate) Method. The activates that were taught within this program has also helped because of the qualities it present so that I can assist the students as mush as I can.learning about the methods used in language teaching was very useful. learning about the stages of an...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Eldoret Kenya and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit was an overview on the difference in teaching method and the teacher. I've learned that your attitude as the teacher plays a huge impact on the student's attitude. When a teacher goes into the classroom they need to be friendly. They shouldn't assume a class already knows what a particular part of the English language is. They should start basic and see what the students know.This unit uses theories-principles to explain the subject.Methods-ways to approach the subject,using...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Nairobi Kenya and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: There was a lot of great material covered in this unit from teaching pronunciation and phonology to how to read the phonetic alphabet. One of the biggest things I noticed during this unit is that most people don't think about things like which part of a word to stress when talking, and that getting more exposure to a language can really help a student understand how to use these concepts.an educational setting, assessment, evaluation, and testing are all used to measure how much of the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Kenya Nairobi and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit about course books and lesson materials provided a brief overview about different kinds of materials and the use of course books. I somewhat expected after reading the title that different course books and their approach would be presented, but the way the unit dealt with this point is probably the better one: just providing some thoughts about advantages/disadvantages and the use of course books as well as how to choose one (if you happen to have the choice). A bigger list of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kenya Machakos and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Accuracy and fluency are both equally important in the learning environment. Accuracy gererally comes before fluency, because students are not to be expected to be able to be fluent if they can't produce correct language. Thus, some degree of accuracy is needed in order to practice fluency effectively. Students should be encouraged to speak so as to practice their English speaking skills. That may prove difficult in certain contexts. Teachers have some techniques they are able to use to promote an...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Machakos Kenya and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this unit I learnt bout class management and how much of a role it plays in being able to teach efficiently and with less hastle.I liked this Unit because I have had problems with class management in my previous teaching job and I found that i would end up using up a sizable chunk of my lesson time on managing the learners.This unit helped me realize that there are different methods to help me manage my classroom quicker and more effectively so I can have more time to actually teach.I learned...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Petropavl Kazakhstan and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this Unit, i learnt some of the most common problem situations. In first lesson, teacher should establish rapport with the students. Do warmers before the class begin. For students in different levels should use different materials, or same material but different tasks, pair stronger students with weaker ones or do nothing. For large classes should involve all pupils equally to classroom control. For reluctant students we should encourage them and prepare activities to let them speak.In...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Pavlodar Kazakhstan and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 19 explains methods for teaching different types of classes. You have absolute beginners, false beginners, adult beginners, young beginners, beginners without roman alphabet. It explains the advantages and disadvantages when teaching the different classes. What we as a teacher should expect from the students at the differenct classes. What our role as the teacher is in the classroom.Important to dictate when things happened in the past and whether or not its still continuing or...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kazakhstan Petropavl and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: I have learnt from this unit that classroom management is the skill of organising and managing the class. If a teacher wants his/her class to be able to learn effectively, it is necessary to inspire confidence in the student. A teacher should use such techniques during the teaching process as eye contact, gestures, voice, as they are extremely important. A teacher should know kinds of grouping students, which of them to choose for different activities. Another important thing which must be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Shymkent Kazakhstan and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Even though we as teachers may get course materials provided for us, it is important to be creative and supplement, adapt, omit, or replace material if it is not beneficial, relevant or interesting. We must keep the needs of the student in mind and motivate them to learn. The course book needs to be the right language level for your student, cover all the skills, and be \"user friendly\".The content of this unit covered the evaluation of students. Ways in which students can be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Topeka Kansas and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This Unit revolved around the methods in which you can prepare a lesson plan and the type of activities you can plan for. The lesson plan is a great way to plan for activities that you will have to engage with in your class. The lesson plan should detail how you will work with your class for the day. Each step of the Engage, Study, and Activate phases should be detailed in the lesson plan.Theories, methods and techniques are very confusing. Also methology mistakes and feedbacks are evan...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Kansas Topeka and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: The attitude of the teacher and the methods used to teach students can have a large impact on the mood of the classroom. The teacher in the first video was uninteresting and dominant, which had negatively affected the participation of the students. He put down students by claiming that the subject material was easy when he had not explained it in a coherent manner. The teacher in the second video was much more responsive and engaging, and he had established a good rapport with the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kazakhstan Shymkent and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit provides knowledge and recommendations for effective teaching approaches to five specialized groups of learners including beginners, individuals (1:1), young learners (children), business people learning English, and the monolingual VS multilingual class. The unique characteristics of each of these groups require special considerations in order to adapt your approach to provide effective learning. Beginner learners can be of any age. There is a common methodology with teaching...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Pavlodar Kazakhstan and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 11 dealt with teaching receptive skills; the two receptive skills are reading and listening. The reasons for listening were broken down into to categories: entertainment and purpose. These two categories were broken down into subcategories such as prediction, scanning, skimming, detailed, etc. Some other aspects that were covered were keeping the students interested in material by switching it up throughout the course, and to pre-teach certain vocabulary without \"overdoing it\"!In...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kazakhstan Pavlodar and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Course books and lesson materials a generally divided into two categories: Authentic materials (menus, newspapers, songs, brochures. etc) and created materials, those created by the teacher to either supplement, replace or both, materials in the course book. Examples of created materials are word search puzzles, fill in the blank exercises, pictures stories, etc. Created materials can be graded to the level of the class whereas authentic material can't. There are many advantages to using a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Machakos Kenya and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: I learned that conditionals refer to sentences that have two clauses : the \"if\" clause and the \"main\" clause. The \"if\"clause contains the condition that has to be satisfied before the action or state in the main clause can be realised. We have five main conditionals: the zero conditional, the first conditional, the second conditional, the third conditional and the mixed conditional.The past tense of English is not too different from othe tenses, but some language learners find it...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Kisumu Kenya and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: I have learned that phonetic script is impossible to read ... almost. There are many ways to teach pronunciation and I believe most of the methods in this section would drive students to give up the attempt. The lone exception being the poem by George Bernard Shaw. Modeling sounds using my own mouth is what has worked for me in the past when I have tried to teach difficult pronunciations.Today I learned from the videos concerning the classroom arrangement , teacher voices and attitudes...  [Read more]