Minnesota Tesol

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Minnesota City 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 unit helped demonstrate examples of weak as well as effective teaching styles through the unit's sample videos. The first video showcased an example of a really poorly taught class where the teacher's actions discouraged students from participating and the classroom dynamic was stale. The actions of the teacher in the first video varied from him disrespecting the students, ( pointing at them, referring to them as \"you\" and not making an effort to remember their names), to poorly...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Minneapolis, Largest City In Minnesota 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: Unit 4 outlines the four aspects of the English present tense: present simple, present simple continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous. The form, including grammatical construction and fundamental rules, as well as the usage of each tense are explained, followed by a discription of typical student errors and Activate stage teaching ideas. Examples are given throughout which facilitate the understanding of the nuances of the different tenses. Thus far,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL 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: M.Z. - Australia said: Unit 3: The unit started by introducing us to different methodologies for teaching, which then combined the better aspects of these methods and introduced us to ESA. ESA stands for Engage, Study and Activate. The ESA approach is appropriate for trainee and new teachers as it gives them a great deal of flexibility in the classroom. The Engage phase starts the lessons and is used to try and get the students aroused and in the right mind frame to be learning. The Study phase looks at activities...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hatfield 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: Teaching beginners is different than teaching non-beginners. The tempo of the class might be slower, especially in the teacher's explanations and instructions. The idea is to have their students be successful - to speak english. Student participation may be requested more so with beginners because the teacher wants to know if his or her students are learning the language. As beginners participate, it is important to acknowledge them and praise - even if their language is incorrect, praise for trying...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Mendota 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 unit gave a lot of information on three separate points of grammar. It first discussed modal auxiliary verbs and provided ideas on how to teach these and have students practice them. Then it explained the difference between passive and active voice. Lastly the unit gave information about phrasal verbs. I would have preferred this unit to be split up into separate grammar units. That way you could have gone into depth a little bit more on each topic. I would have found this more interesting than...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Eagan 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: The unit gives a basic knowledge on lesson planning. It introduces the importance of a plan and how it should be utilized within the lesson. To the point it was noted that a teacher should leave a flexibility to the lesson because he/she should pay proper attention to the needs of a student during the lesson. How important were the points to be included in the plan suggested by the unit, it is still quite elaborated and true was it said that this can be basis for an inexperienced teacher, while those...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Plummer 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 unit was an amazing help in terms of finding appropriate technology and sources for language teaching. All the tips were really practical and easy to implement. A teacher can make a decision regarding equipment he is willing to use during the lesson just based on the information from the unit. My personal favorites are traditional boards, visual aids, IWB, videos and cameras. I pay a lot of attention to engaging my students into the process so those ones were the most efficient for me. I will...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Dalton 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: From this Unit I have learned, that as an EFL teacher I should have a sound knowledge of Present Tense system, and while teaching different types of tenses I should be able to educate my students in a systematic manner. I have also learned that, as an EFL teacher, we've to teach it step wise. like, form of the tense, it's usage, along with examples and activities, and to analyse typical students' errors and mistakes. I have learned key points like, Simple present tense is used to talk about habits and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Mound 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: In this unit, it has introduced the basics of grammar. Through this unit, I have learned in details the different types of nouns, adjectives, article, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions. Out of them, I have newly learned about gerunds. Gerunds are -ing form of verbs used as nouns. In this unit, it has also presented the detailed types and usages of each grammar groups such as the different verb forms (base form, past simple, past participle and present participle)and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Calumet 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: I have learned that receptive skills are those skills in which we receive language. The two types of receptive skills are reading and listening and both are equally important. When we read or listen, we do so for two main reasons, either for a purpose or for entertainment. I have noted that learning receptive skills can pose a challenge, therefore a teacher should select suitable materials for the level of the students. It is important for a teacher to select a suitable text to use in a class. The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Moorhead 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 unit discussed different aspects and tactics of classroom behavior in regards to both instructors and students, managing behavior, giving instructions and how different spatially organized classes have an effect on the aforementioned things. It kind of covers generally, conduct between all parties and roles in a classroom. What is effective conduct, and what are potential factors that could arise naturally and, from ineffective conduct and actions. I think that it was cool how in this section...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Norcross 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: I miss overhead projectors! Growing up, our classrooms had either black/whiteboards or overhead projectors. Now, the classrooms I work in or take classes in, have smart boards (interactive whiteboards). They definitely have their advantages; reduce materials and prep time and can be used for different things (presentations, video, writing, games). However, they are more high maintenance - power, calibration, patience, a computer. The overhead projector may require more space, but it doesn't use...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Deephaven 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: Unit 7 is about teaching receptive skills, reading and listening. There are two categories for reasons and motives of reading and listening which are for a purpose and for entertainment. Reading and listening also includes your mind to understand words and process them in our pre-existent knowledge to gain true understanding. It's important to use topics that are of interest to the students. I learned that it is important to have a balance of words the students know and don't know in a lesson. That...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stacy 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: Unit 15 is concerned with evaluation and testing. This could be done in a variety of ways, e.g. informal: guided discussion in class or formal: external examination, for example TOEFL. Another possibility apart from evaluation by the students and tests is tutoring. However, one on one tutoring might be difficult to achieve in classes with high numbers of participants. Having a closer look at tests, there are many, many test out there and they test different skills. For example the IELTS or TOEFL...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Florence 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: In teaching pronunciation and phonology it is always important for the teacher to be a model and should always provide a concise example as well as helping the students learn how every word in pronounced by using helpful methodologies such as visual aids, or by performing how a word is pronounced in a form of showing the student how the mouth should be. Furthermore, with the use of exercises such as drill can help students be familiarize on how every word should sound. Stress and intonation are also...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Mapleview 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: The unit gives information about the different parts of normal speech, the correct term to use when describing them and their function within the sentence. There is also interesting information on problems that students can encounter when learning these words, common mistakes they can make and tips on how to teach them. Although I am a native speaker of English this can also be challenging to me. I learnt to speak English as a child and it feels natural to put certain words in certain orders but...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Avon 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: The videos were helpful and I would like to think that I have been teaching my classes exactly like the teacher does in the second video. The first video is truly painful to watch and I would hate to think that there are teachers who fall into the category of being a horrible teacher that gives terrible lessons such as the one depicted in the first video. I have been teaching ESL for the past sixteen years and I can honestly say that the ESA format used in the second video is very similar to my own...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Savage 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: The main thing I learned from this unit was the difference between past perfect and past perfect continous. The key word here is \"continuous\", showing that the way native speakers talk about these completed actions is not the same depending on the context of sentences. As a teacher it is very impotant to distinguish between these for students from other countires, particularly those in which past, present, and future tenses are not as complicated as in the English language. For example, in my...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Ironton 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: Throughout the Unit, difficulties in the classroom are laid out as well as possible solutions to each case. First lessons (be it with a that already knows each other or a new group that has yet to meet the teacher or the rest of the classmates), reluctant students, large classes, the use of native language by students and a class with different levels are all analysed and considered difficulties for the teacher and how to deal with those situations. I found this Unit very enlightening, seeing as most...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Miesville 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: As a teacher who is very familiar in teaching English speaking and writing I very much appreciate this lesson. My speaking classes involves a lot of games, pair work and group work activity. I find students love to get involve in speaking when they don't feel any pressure at all ad when they think it's really fun. So activities such as dividing students into teams and competing works very well. For writing I don't really agree that giving it as homework is not a good idea because it gives students...  [Read more]