How To Become A Teacher In California

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Menlo Park California 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 is about classroom management and the basics behind it. It teaches about teacher positioning, student positioning and the different types of classroom groupings. Most of this I was already aware of because of my teaching experience. One thing that I thought was different from my classes that I teach now is the order in which a name is said. If I have a class that is loud and has students who just answer questions without waiting to be called upon, I call the student's name first, so...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Company Legit TESOL 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: J.N. - U.S.A. said: Why Complete a TEFL CourseIn the summer of 2011, I left San Jose, California: my hometown. Up until that point in time, leaving town meant driving to Disneyland. This time was different. I wasn’t driving across the state; I was hopping on a plane and flying across the world. Seven weeks later, I cried as I sat in the airport. It was time to go home to sunny California. As I sat there, I was lost in a state of reflection, thinking about my experiences in Hangzhou, China. The images Dog,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Del Rey Oaks California 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 probably had the most information thus far with the most amount of material that will be difficult to pick up and to study/memorize in the future. As a native speaker, my accent/pronunciation is my most valued commodity but it is not enough to just expose students to my way of speaking. Things like mouth formation and tongue positioning need to be explained to students in order for them to learn to do it on their own. And in order for this to be done, the teacher must understand the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Santa Clarita California 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: Classroom management is the skill of organizing the class to maintain discipline but have a relaxed, friendly manner when working with students. This is done by making good eye contact in order to involve and encourage students in the lesson, and establish good rapport with students. Establishing good rapport means giving clear instruction, allowing student talking time by pairing or grouping students effectively, and planning lessons that reflect students' interests. Teachers can prevent...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Locations Intensive TESOL 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: Z.M. – U.S.A. said: I have learned so much really. The verb tenses and conditional sections were very valuable to me, as I really needed the review of all these facets of english that we native-speakers rarely think of or talk about in passing. Some of the assignments were difficult for me, as I was very rusty about many of these things. However, I feel I made a lot of progress in all areas that I was weak in. I believe this course will also help me as I embark upon my second Master's degree I am...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Elk Grove California 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: During the Unit 13 of this course I learned about Pronunciation and Phonology, definition, intonation and I read about methods, ways and examples for effective teaching. As mentioned in the course, pronunciation is one of the most neglected aspect of English language teaching. One important reason is that foreign teachers don't have the confidence and the training experience in this area. I agree that an effective teacher considers the teaching of pronunciation an integral part of the course...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Burbank California 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 are many advantages to adding a computer aided or AV components to lessons but this does not eliminate the need for preparation and many times increases it. Utilizing electronic aids requires the teacher to not only understand the materials they are presenting and how to teach to them but also a firm comfort with the medium they are using to present. A lesson could easily be derailed if the chosen presentation medium stops working and a teacher does not have a back up plan. Similarly, if the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Antioch California 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 is composed of two videos. Both contain a recording of a lesson where a group of students whose native language is not English is taught by the same teacher. Although the same lesson is presented in both videos, they differ significantly in the style in which they are taught.In the first lesson, where the teacher deliberately makes errors, we observe confused and timid students. In the second lesson, which is led by a teacher who follows the teaching fundamentals, we see a picture of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs California Thousand Oaks 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 realized in this unit that the ultimate goal in any classroom is for the students, themselves, to become competent enough to evaluate their own level and progress throughout the year. Thus, feedback is crucial and necessary for a student's growth, but too much of it and an overt criticism on their work may cause a lasting dependent relationship on the teacher. The idea of not being able to do it alone defeats the purpose of learning. In order to asses a student's level, I need to give...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs San Francisco California 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: It is important, as a teacher, to better understand proper teaching methods. This represents the action system of the guide and students as ways and modes to organize optimal educational and cognitive action towards established goals. Sometimes content and objectives are well selected and organized, but when it comes to determining the 'how to teach, educate and learning methods', the process becomes a challenge. Without having a comprehension of the process of teaching the task becomes...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bell Gardens California 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: Conditionals are sentences containing ?if? ?when? which refer to past present and future possibilities. It should be noted that there are two clauses; that is the if clause and main clause. Either of them can come in the first part of a conditional sentence. The ?if? clause contains a condition that has to be satisfied before the action/state in the main clause can be realized. The main clause expresses the consequence. There are five main conditionals and these are as follows; zero...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs San Diego California 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 think what helped me most throughout this unit was thinking about how I learned all of this material in Spanish, and the similarities between the two languages. Since my ultimate goal is to teach English to native Spanish speakers, I am always thinking of the way the minds of my future students work in their maternal language. I also think about how I learned a second language and the difficulties I had understanding certain things, like direct to reported speech. All of this experience...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Accreditation Distance TESOL 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: H.P. - China said: english as a Global LanguageWhat factors encourage the emergence of a Global Language? Is it simply when the largest amount of people can speak the language, whether as an official language or a second one? Currently there are 6909 known active languages throughout the world, with 473 on the brink of extinction.[1] The english language is actually third in the number of people who can speak it, behind Mandarin chinese and spanish.[2] So why hasn’t spanish or Mandarin emerged as the...  [Read more]

Group Dynamics I have always been fascinated by social dynamics and how they affect groups in personal and professional contexts. A teacher must be constantly aware of group dynamics while teaching. The teacher is not, however, merely exporting language information-grammatical structures, vocabulary, etc-but also acts in a role model capacity. This translates into how the teacher presents materials and engages the class. While researching for this essay, I stumbled across an article titled, Teacher Identity as Pedagogy: Towards a Field-Internal Conceptualisation in Bilingual and Second Language Education. The article explores using the teacher’s personal identity as a ‘field-internal’ teaching tool, as a way to teach students a language, but also excite collaborative skills in...  [Read more]

British english vs american English With English being recognised as the global language of choice, which one is considered the official language? So just how did American English diverge from British English in the first place? American English roots back to the early colonial days of the late 16th century, were a whole gamut of cultures converged into a single society. In some colonies English wasn’t even a spoken language and in those colonies that did speak English it was quite different from the English we know today. The Elizabethan English of the day consisted of many varieties of regional English dialects. All these different dialects, intermingled with a multitude of cultures formed one big boiling pot, of which over time, a new variant was produced – American English. And...  [Read more]

TESOL certification courses have traditionally been offered either as 4-week, classroom based courses or as 100% online or distance learning. We at ITTT see the benefits and drawbacks to both types of study. In order to offer greater variety and flexibility for course participants, we’ve combined the best of both methods of study and training into one unique course. As the name suggests, the Combined course combines two elements of study: the first being online and the second being in class study, training and teaching at one of our Combined course training centers. The course offers the opportunity to study the theories of teaching online and at your own pace from the comfort of your own home or office. Then you’ll have the opportunity to put theory into practice through further...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Inexpensive TESOL Lessons 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: K.R. - U.S.A. said: Is english the New RussianIn 1963, at the height of the Cold War between the united states and the former Soviet Union, I was ten years old and my older brother a junior in high school. As a young man keen to study politics when he got to university, he elected to study Russian to fulfill his foreign language requirement. The Soviet Union seemed a genuine threat to our economy and our military, indeed to our very existence, and thus it was felt by many educators and national leaders...  [Read more]

Mighty big place, Partner. As Ferdinand Braudel, the great French historian observed, ‘the land dictates the people’, and it is a good idea never to stray too far from this theme. If you want to know what ‘cold’ is then head up to Minneapolis, north of Toronto, in the mid winter. If you want to know what ‘hot and humid is’ then try Orlando in the height of the summer. If you transcribe a line from Los Angles to Miami and turn this into a road trip then the number of different peoples and environments you will encounter is immense. By all means there is a thin veneer of Americanism, and everywhere you will find both McDonalds, and the presence of the Federal Government; however, you shouldn’t let this take your eye off the ball of the fact that the people and environment of...  [Read more]