Josh Budd

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Buda Indiana 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 went over the different classroom managing techniques a teacher should be aware of, for example; the different forms of contact a teacher can exhibit to a student can dictate or affect how a student might behave. A teacher might provide eye contact, gestures, or tone variance in voice to help explain the lesson. A teacher could even use the class' seating assignment to make it easier to group students together for work. This unit was able to provide the different ways in which a class could be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Rockport Texas 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 about lesson planing and also planing a sequence of lessons. From why and how a lesson plan should be written to the importance of being organised, this unit was very essential and maybe one of the most important unit about having a smooth lesson. I've always wondered, how I can manage a class with a limited time and all, but having studied this lesson, now I feel much more motivated and ready. The examples given for a lesson plan and example tasks will always be a huge help for me to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Yankton South Dakota 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 is no fixed teaching techniques for a specific teacher. Instead the teacher needs to be flexible in using a varied of techniques to make his/her lesson more interesting and so more effective. However, the teacher should keep in mind that the lesson should be started with Engage (when the students take more time to talk) and end with Activate (when the students use the language points they have been taught in real communication contexts). Another important note is that the teacher should not...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL San Jose 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: S.B. - U.S.A. said: In this unit we are introduced to the four present tenses, simple, continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous. Although that sounds straightforward and simple enough this unit was somewhat challenging for me. I think partially due to my idea of grammar being a difficult subject, although it was not part of the lesson I think one of the most important things I learned from this unit was to not assume grammar is inherently confusing. Simple tense is used for habits, permanent...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL San Jose Arizona 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 English,conditionals and reported speech is equally important.As a teacher i find this unit equally important because i can now construct good sentences in the conditionals and reported speech.Through their forms and usage i have learn how to make good sentences in in the conditional and reported speech .Also tenses are equally used to elaborate widely on the conditional and reported speech for example ,in the mixed conditional i learned that second conditional clause is combined with a third...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification California San Jose 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: As I work in an international school, we have students from difficult cultural background. They have different learning intersets, learning styles. It is very dangerous that if all students are taught the same content in the same way . It is vital that we need to defferentiate to cater to students' learning interests. I am in faour of the point taht using pair work or group work to maximize students' involvement. It is very helpful for the students to gain confidence if they speak in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Sao Jose Brazil 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 a general yet concise and helpful overview of the various different teaching tools and materials that may be available to ESL teachers in the classroom. Although some of the points may not be applicable to certain situations, I see the value in leaning about the various tools that could potentially be available for use. The little tips on how to use certain materials, such as the cassette recorder, was very helpful.In Unit 9 entitled ?Lesson Planning?, I learned who to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Sao Jose Brazil 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 particularly found interesting the brief introduction that mentioned how linguists can argue that there are truly only two types of tenses, those being past and present. However, when teaching the language, we have to be more careful and especially more specific when discussing verb tenses, otherwise things become very cloudy. While it seems almost redundant or unnecessary to mention all these minor details such as \"present perfect continuous\", without acknowledging that each verb...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification San Jose 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 was by far the most information heavy that I've encountered yet. It feels like I'm learning brand new material rather than reviewing what I already knew. It's very exciting to start learning about methodology to use in the classroom, as it feels as though I'm starting to train to teach! As someone who has never taught or tutored, it had a lot of great information that I will probably end up returning to for reference.The 2 videos for unit 6 has taught me ways to act as a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs san jose 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 was a helpful lesson that provided examples of the effects of the teacher's overall attitude on the class. How the teacher presents the material can drastically alter the attitudes of the students. A simple smile can ease the tension of the class and allow everyone to better absorb the material. Speaking loudly, slowly and clearly is also very important. The difference between the two lessons was extremely clear. The students in the first lesson were uninterested and the teacher did not...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Brazil Sao Jose 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 9 considered the issue of course materials -- the various kinds of materials, their comparative advantages and disadvantages, and the optimal strategies for ensuring that available materials are utilized in the most effective manner. The author distinguished between “authentic” materials (anything intended for normal use by fluent speakers) and \"created\" materials (anything designed for use by language learners). Authentic materials are often more enagaging, and may tend to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs California San Jose 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 covered various aspects of lesson planning. It suggested that while some theorists consider lesson planning to not be a good idea as it creates a more fixed, teacher-centered lesson, it's important for a teacher to be flexible to the needs of the students. It takes a more experienced teacher to be able to let the students have more control over what they do in class. A more inexperienced teacher would feel unprepared. Most teachers fall somewhere in the middle, relying on a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Brazil Sao Jose 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 covered the receptive skills reading and listening, which are two of the four basic skills in any language. The remaining skills are speaking and writing. The two main reasons for reading and listening are for a purpose (it will help us achieve a goal) and for entertainment (we find it pleasurable). We use several different specialist skills when reading and listening; scanning, skimming, detailed information, and deduction from content. When selecting reading and listening...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fruit Heights Utah 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 was essentially another review lesson. I would've liked more content on actually teaching the past tense rather than a review of the tense itself. Pedagogy is particularly important to my situation because I live in Asia, where there is no past-tense, rather a particle is added to the end of a word to indicate its current state. Sometimes the English past tense can be difficult to convey to these students, particularly because this same particle is added to situations where we wouldn't use past...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs San Jose Occidental Mindoro 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 of teaching new language is very well explained and it is truly effective in teaching.The techniques for teaching vocabulary, and the techniques for presenting and paractising language structure is very well detailed and explained.Also I understand and learned the structured of how to apply the ESA methods in teaching new language of vocabulary, grammar and functions.Overall a very helpful and detailed unit in which I have the foundation in my future teaching career.This...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification San Jose Costa Rica 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 talked about teaching the first lesson and potential difficult situations that teachers may face with different kinds of students. It talked about new groups and pre-existing groups and how to deal with those as far as establishing rapport and what kinds of problems the teacher could face with those groups. It also went over warmers and having a class with students who all have different English levels.This unit was focused on not how to teach business English, but how to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Costa Rica San Jose 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 a strong definition to the methods that are used in language teaching, which most teachers possible subconsciously do use. Thus, it is nice to have gotten the opportunity to understand the difference in each of these types and to be able to grasp which would be best option in any given situation. The ESA technique is extremely effective as it goes in the perfect order of introduction of a new topic in the engage phase, giving more information on that topic in the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs San Jose Costa Rica 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 exposed me to the advantages and disadvantages of using course books and materials and showed me how the best teachers are able to strike a balance between using published course books and creating their own materials. Moreover, this unit highlighted the differences between authentic and created resources and materials and suggested how the two categories may be used based on the language level of the students. Furthermore, the inclusion of example activities was very useful and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Occidental Mindoro San Jose 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 really touched a multitude of sore subjects for me. The main one being Speaking (public speaking). I have been scared stiff about speaking in front of groups of people, no matter the size, since middle school. This most likely stems from a combination of bullying/belittling by both my peers and my teachers, as well as a crippling fear of being wrong or making a mistake that would result in my being horribly embarrassed. This problem seems to have actually worsened with age,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Jos Nigeria 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 quite simple especially that I have learned about making lesson plans in the 120-hour TEFL Course. However this unit gives me more knowledge about preparing for materials used for students as well as choosing resources. I think it is crucial that every teacher needs to know how to make a lesson plan and to be able to choose the most suitable materials for their students.There are basically four things that a student needs to be able to do when learning new language: 1. be...  [Read more]