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Check out tefl tesol about Inclass 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: K.N. - U.S.A. said: Cultural Sensitivity in the ClassroomCultural sensitivity is one of the most important aspects of teaching in a foreign classroom or of teaching to a diverse class of students. When teaching abroad some teachers of TEFL have not taken the time to study the country of their work. Also, some teachers that teach english in their home countries have never been to other countries or have not worked among people of different cultures. Consequently, sometimes teachers may unknowingly say or do...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification United States Waco 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 a good teacher is kind, loves teaching, and wants to help students as much as possible. A good student is willing to learn and is knowledgeable about their own learning process, and is also willing to make mistakes and be corrected without being offended. The conclusion is that a good teacher is able to produce good students by motivating and being helpful to them. This lesson shows us how a teacher should act and what is expected of him/her. It also delves into what...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Anda China 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: By watching the two unit 10 videos, (of the same teacher teaching the same lesson/material) firstly; doing the opposite of all guidelines and advice from units 3,5,7 & 9. Secondly doing everything according to the textbook, the reactions from the students totally validate all the guidelines and advice contained in previous chapters for how to execute an effective lesson. Its quiet clear that students in the first lesson are not engaged, slightly intimidated, and of unsure of what they are being...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL LeDroit Park District Of Columbia 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 interesting to read that writing is often overlooked in the TEFL world, because I've had the exact opposite experience, although I see very little creative writing. It seems to me that when using productive skills, a great focus must be put on creating a comfortable, confident, learning environment. I would really be interested in seeing what suggestions ITTT has for cultivating such an environment for a variety of ages. In my experience thus far, elementary, adults, and high...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Green Acres Oregon 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 is about teaching special groups. Sooner or later, a teacher is likely to teach ?irregular? groups, like beginners, individual student, children, etc. It?s crucial that he/she adapts his/her courses and attitude toward the students geared to the type of class. For example, the teacher would make himself/herself funny and would never bore the students if they were children. At the opposite, he/she would spend less effort to entertain and would have a faster lessons? pace if its students were...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Chancellor 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: These two lessons demonstrate very well how important the attitude of the teacher is and how it is reflected by the students. The first lesson is very boring! Just watching it and not sitting in it is very tiring. You can imagine that sitting in this lesson is not fun at all and very difficult to follow. Whereas the second lesson is more or less the opposite. You recognize that the teacher likes what he is doing and therefore the student's attitude is totally different from the first lesson....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lake George New York 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 the classroom management. This means everything from seating arrangements to establishing rapport. In this, we find out how the teacher's actions can contribute to the students' learning, interest, and behaviour. It's interesting, as normally when trying to control a class we believe that there should be a clear and strict control over all students. Here, we see that while there should be control, we cannot overexert it. The use of body language, eye contact, and voice gives us...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Rayville Louisiana 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 lessons planning. It supplied examples of lesson planning templates that were both filled out and not filled out. Additionally, it had a template for teacher self-reflection to help the teacher improve. I learned that I will need to try to be flexible and to try to closely pay attention to the interest in the students during each part of the lesson. Some aspects may take longer than expected, and some may be the opposite. I think as an inexperienced teacher, one might be too...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Freetown Sierra Leone 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 a very good example of an effective and ineffective classes. Both videos are interesting in terms of methodology, learning process, strategies, rapport and classroom atmosphere. The first is a complete failure to meet the lesson objectives. The second one is the exact opposite of the first lesson and it shows some good examples to deliver an interesting class.This Unit is very good because I can see different examples of topics that can be confused at the moment of use...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Philippines Antipolo City 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: Two very different student experiences. In the first teacher's tone was unfriendly, started with grammar terms without explaining them, was not interested in the student performance, nor cared if the instructions were understood and the students became shy and intimidated. The second one was a lot better, the teacher was funny, engaging, though used a lot of time to speak and there were no role play or much activity where the students were using the language themselves. The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL West Allis Wisconsin 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: Some teachers with experience seem to have an ability to think on their feet, and this allows them to believe that lesson planning is unnecessary However, most teachers do not share this view and prepare their lessons. The resulting lesson plans range from the very formal and elaborate to a few hurried notes. But even the notes are still a plan of a kind. For students, evidence of a plan shows that the teacher has devoted time to thinking about the class. It strongly suggests a level of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Djibouti Djibouti 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 receptive skill in teaching --reading and listening. motives for reading and listening including for a purpose and for entertainment. the way we can read and listen includes predictive skills, scanning, skimming, detailed information and deduction from context. however, students will have diffuculties related to reading and listening, we should pre-teaching vocabulary and be careful selection of texts.In lesson the teacher failed to introduce himself and learn the students...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Clear Lake 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: In this unit I was able to understand how important the attitude of the teacher is at the time of a lesson. As I was able to notice the change in the student's attitude towards the teacher in both videos. In the first one, the students were confused and even intimidated by the teacher because he was always saying that the topic was too easy and assuming everyone knew what he was talking about, so the students were afraid of participating. Also the teacher never engaged with the students, so...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Lilongwe Malawi 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 watched two videos on a lesson about modal auxiliary verbs. The first lesson was executed poorly and the participation was very low. The second lesson was the opposite of the first; there was high level of participation and the teacher was able to fully engage the whole class on the lesson. These video lessons are examples or what not to do and what to do during a lesson.I have learnt that it is valuable for students to learn english through a wide range of teaching aids....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Flint 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 taken several grammar courses that deal with teaching ESL/ESL students. The one of took before THIS course actually left me very confused at a lot of things with grammar (and I love teaching grammar.) However, I was happy to find that the video and reading for this unit really helped me understand some questions I had. For example, I have a hard time with verbs sometimes because of the difference between past simple and past participle. I also struggle with transitive and intransitive....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Komatsu Japan 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 me see what I can use to make my future lessons interesting. I think I will use Youtube, video recording, dictionaries and work sheets the most. I found them the most fun to work with when I was a student. I think it's important to not be a dinosaure when it comes to teaching. Beeing up to date with the teaching aids is as important as the way I present my self as a teacher.I have learnt how to use different website dictionaries and also I usually thought that capital...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Dee Oregon 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 Productive stage, speaking and writing is as important as the receptive skills. In speaking lessons, a teacher should be lenient with to the students when in comes to fluency, as they are not expected to be as fluent for first timers. On the other hand, opposite reaction should be given in terms of accuracy in writing. At the early stage of learning skill in writing, a learner should possess a positive attitude towards accuracy for this is the foundation for writing. Further, writing will not be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Fujin City 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 from my point of view, is very essential in that:it sharply contrasts the thought of what the teacher should do,and what he actually does_by providing the opportunity for a trainee to see the impact of what his or her attitude or decisions can have on a TEFL lesson. The fact that the units gives the trainee the chance to actually contrast two lessons on a particular language point, with the same learners, helps to emphasize on the calls regularly made by the trainers on the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs South Africa Durban 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 a very useful introductory to teaching young adults. It starts with clearing the terminology and giving a brief explanation of the main developmental and learning theories. The next part explains how do we learn our first (native) language and how we build our second language on it - and how the method of learning each differs from the other. I found extremely useful to learn about the basic rules of language acquisition; one can set the teaching process remembering to all those...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification California Pomona 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 a unit about the productive skills of English. These two skills are really important when teaching but, sometimes we focus more on the oral part than the written part. With this unit I could understand that both of them are really important. Learning how to write in a proper way is something we should also teach our students. Also, in this unit I could see that both fluency and accuracy are important when developing the oral skills of students. In some cases they tend to speak...  [Read more]