Matt Mitzel

  In the TEFL review, Matt describes how he was living and working as an English teacher in Japan when his employer asked him to get TEFL certified which he did through an online TEFL course with ITTT. Policy changes around the world mean that many countries now require their English teachers to have at least a 120-hour TEFL/TESOL certificate. ITTT's online courses are a great way to gain certification without having to take time off work. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Davao Oriental Mati 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 different methods and techniques for teaching language, as well as detailing the 'Engage, Study, Activate' method. This method is the preferred for teaching English as part of the TESOL course, and is based on a number of these methods by Jeremy Harmer. The unit covered each stage of the lesson, emphasising elicitation from students and getting them to discover answers rather than just giving answers. The unit provided ideas for each stage, which would be appropriate for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Mati Davao Oriental 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 the most difficult grammar review for me. In this unit, we learned about the modal auxiliary verbs and the rules for when to use each of them. I found the chart to be very handy and helpful. We also learned about the passive voice and how it differs from the active voice, their forms and usage. There are three relative clauses, the independent, dependent, and relative. The most difficult for me was the phrasal verbs, and how to distinguish between the intransitive,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Mati Davao Oriental 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: Future Tenses is by far the most complex out of all the tenses covered this far. Again it is important to master the base form of each tense, and built on that. The complexity of this unit will definitely only apply to advanced user of the language. Giving lessons it will be important to properly Engage the learners as they will very easily loose focus with a intense Study session for this particular module.This was a hard unit. It taught me about all the present tenses, present...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Cuba guantanamo 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: Most of this unit was straight forward. For laying out a lesson, there was much of it I was familiar with. With the majority of my teaching experience coming from teaching skiing, flexibility, learning objectives, time, procedure and possible problems were ingrained in my teaching style. When teaching 6 1 hour lessons a day you have to have a good idea of planning to survive especially when the students change every time. However, making a more formal plan was not something I was ever considering...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Guantanamo Cuba 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: Modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice, this was a unit that made you think. Phrasal verbs is something a lot of us use in daily language and never think of but to explain them to a student will definitely take some extra special explanation work, but when as they say, ' the penny drops', it will be something they will enjoy using. When you understand the basic rules for modals and passive voice they make sense.To learn this unit, we should have a clear thoughts about tenses especially...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Guantanamo Cuba 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-5 :Managing Classes How important Eye contact,Gestures and the voice of the teacher. How to discipline the classroom , giving information to the students,Rapport building,writing on the board and the use of Teacher talk time. How important to grouping the students:Whole-class activities,Students workingo n their own ,pairworks and group works For me this thing is most impartant: Students name should be used at the end of the question,not at the start. This keeps everybody in the class...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Czech Republic Olomouc 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 dynamics within the classroom, both between the teacher/students as individuals, between the teacher and the class as a whole, and between the students themselves. Having experienced many different classroom arrangements (horseshoe arrangement or small groups are my favourite), it's good to now be able to understand how that effects the general atmosphere within the classroom. It also shows how important it is to identify how that relates to the goal of the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Olomouc Czech Republic 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: teacher must know when to be firm and when to leave the students alone, eye contact , gesture and teachers voice are ways to help the teacher in manging the class . grouping students has there pron and cons,classroom arrangement should depend on the space available , nationality and student personality.there should be a rapport between the teacher.teacher should know how to respond to the student behavior problemThe unit discussed issues relating to productive skills, speaking and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Czech Republic Olomouc 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 last unit displays more information on the practical side of teaching that the course hasn't been able to include in the other lesson units because it would have taken the attention of the theme of that unit. This unit is therefor called 'Troubleshooting' and give information about how to deal with some of the most common problem situations a Teacher can encounter in his career, like different levels, usage of native language by students, reluctant students, very large classes and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Olomouc Czech Republic 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: Wow. I can see why this is difficult to learn and why teachers must have good knowledge to prevent student confusion and keep them interested and motivated. I also see how focusing on tenses will actually create opportunities for student to use and learn the language. I find I have to work backwards, I know the correct sentence (and recognize the wrong one). I then have to figure out why it is correct/incorrect, based on the rules. I hope it becomes easier with more use and exposure. Again...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson TESOL Training 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.L. – Korea said: To summarize a wonderful experience seems inappropriate but taking a look at task 3, I'll get over it. This course was fantastic to say the least and the Ministry of Education here in South Korea should have it be required by all Native english Teachers nationwide. Recently, a major organization that employs thousands of english teachers here started to require a 120 hour Tefl or Tesol certificate so many of us here enrolled in various programs online. My friend took this course and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson TESOL Accredited 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: M.G – U.S.A. said: I really enjoy doing this course it was a little long and challenging especially if you have not study english grammar for a while. It was also a good review and it helps me a great deal about teaching ESL to foreign students. My plan of action is to find another job which will be TEFL or TESOL related and once I am hired I will be ready to put TEFL training to work I am really looking forward to teaching ESL to foreign students. Best of all I feel that this course was well...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Granite Falls Minnesota 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 is the unit I was most looking forward to and also worried about. My previous teaching experience with adults always had a predesigned plan to follow, allowing for flexibility and changes as needed. I was pleased to see that the lesson plan allowed for this. I am an organized person and prefer to be prepared but I also like when enthusiasm may take us to a place where the focus may change but learning is still done. In North American in the 1970s, a lot of grade schools were still using...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Discounted 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: F. A. – U.S.A. said: I gained a lot from this course. Starting with lesson different stages and what activities to include in every stage. I learned how to organize my class, rearrange the seating, manage class dynamic and encourage students to participate. I worked as english teacher before and did it once for fun, but now I know to make it fun and efficient for students to gain the most. I enjoyed the grammar lessons and lesson plans the most. One of the difficulties students face is learning grammar rules,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Russia Dzerzhinsk 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 really enjoyed this module. I have experience with a game that I created. Its a quick game. Around the World works best with a set of flashcards – can be math, vocab, sight words, or spelling. All students stand up, the first student stands next to the student behind them. then a flashcard is shown and whoever is the fastest to say the correct answer moves on. The idea is to be the best in the whole class. For a bonus, if a student makes it all the way around the room...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Brazil araguaina 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 Unit 2 I learned about the different types of nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Nouns can either be common, Proper, collective, abstract, or compound. For example, an abstract noun in a sentence would be, \"Tommy's happiness is based on the ability to make Sally happy.\" Happiness is the abstract noun in the sentence. Adjectives can be either comparative or superlative. \"Eddy is better at math than Frederick\" would be a comparative adjective. \"Eddy is the best in his grade at...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs South Sudan Juba 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 covers reported / direct speech as well as conditionals. As a former computer programmer, I was rather pleased to see conditionals as it a topic frequently covered in the math/science lessons. I had not realized there were so many conditionals involved. As American English is my L1, my English classes in elementary school did not discuss all the terms that are covered throughout this course. As usual, I found the teaching ideas helpful and am beginning to realize that sometimes terms...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification praia grande 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: It was a very nice example of a bad and good lesson. I'm still surprised by that guys acting. Videos really made their point. Tasks given at the end of unit was not really a preparation for this test but was useful by themselves. The test is also useful because it's evaluating and a little teaching at the same time. While trying to find the correct answer, you see examples of non correct ones so you basically learn one more thing.The unit covers lesson planning and starts by asking...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Switzerland Geneva 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 gives a detailed analysis of teaching special groups and the different types of classes that a teacher may be required to teach. I am fortunate to have taught in most all of these scenarios over a forty year teaching span and would commend the usefulness of the indepth treatment of the topic in this unit. My teaching experience was not in language but science math based subjects but the same basic principles apply. I especially enjoyed the adult learners who took evening classes after a...  [Read more]