Which Tefl Course To Take

  There is no simple answer to this question as it depends entirely on which type of TEFL course you choose to study. At ITTT we have a range of courses that are designed to suit the various needs of our trainees, each with its own time scale for completion. Please see below for a breakdown of our various course options. Online courses are often the quickest route towards TEFL certification. If you are in a real hurry a course such as our 60-hour introduction to TEFL may be a good choice as you can conceivably complete it in as little as five days. Even those who prefer to study at a slower rate should find they can complete the course within one month. However, it is worth remembering that the majority of employers worldwide insist on job applicants having a TEFL certificate of...  [Read more]

  There is no simple answer to this question as it depends entirely on which type of TEFL course you choose to study. At ITTT we have a range of courses that are designed to suit the various needs of our trainees, each with its own time scale for completion. Please see below for a breakdown of our various course options. Online courses are often the quickest route towards TEFL certification. If you are in a real hurry a course such as our 60-hour introduction to TEFL may be a good choice as you can conceivably complete it in as little as five days. Even those who prefer to study at a slower rate should find they can complete the course within one month. However, it is worth remembering that the majority of employers worldwide insist on job applicants having a TEFL certificate of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs forli Italy 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 was mainly about the different types of tests students take to evaluate their level. There were four mentioned: placement tests, usually taken before a language course begins, progress tests, a test taken periodically within the duration of the course, diagnostic tests, which are similar to placement tests but are also gauge to find gaps in the students knowledge to then be able to build lessons around that, and finally practice tests, which are usually taken before an external...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Jhansi India 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 and building relationships is my favorite part about teaching, so I loved learning about it more in-depth! I learned when TTT is beneficial and when it should be used and how many different things can affect a student's talk time and interaction. I knew it was important to have different types of teaching (whole group, pairs, individual), but I've never thought of it in a context with another language how certain ways can impair their exposure to the language and hurt their...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lopatcong New Mexico 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 provided a nice example of a lesson plan and helped explain the process that results in an introductory LP. Personally, I think there should have been a section on backward planning. This kind of process helps change the perspective from teaching to learning, which initially might sound like the same thing, actually results in an entirely different plan. The shift towards learning means we take focus away from the teacher and place it on the student to ensure that learning has taken...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Taonan 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: It takes me a lot of time to go through the whole video because I take notes while observing. I guess the teacher didn't make a lesson plan in the first video, which makes everything so ridiculous. Indeed, that's the siginificance of making a lesson plan ahead: to make the lesson well designed and constructed. Furthermore, a smile can change the world, which indicates how the gestures work. From my point of view, I have some advice for the second demo that the teacher ask the question before...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Mito 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 relationship between a teacher and student is very important. Teachers can take on many different roles in the classroom, some roles will mean that the teacher takes on a more prominent role while at times teachers can take withdrawn role. There is no \"best role\" and the role the teacher employs is situational, both the type of student and the objective of the lesson will determine the most suitable role. It is therefore important that a good teacher is comfortable in all types of roles. It is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Brisbane Australia 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 tests and assessment as part of the teaching process. Testing students English ability is necessary for all English learners because it helps assess their language proficiency and their periodic progress throughout a course. For students hoping to work or study in an English speaking country another important part of testing is practice testing so that they can prepare for external exams which will allow them to do so.The English present tense system, as with the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hà Noi 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: G.B. – U.S.A. said: This unit covers a variety of assessment methods mainly falling into three categories: tutorials, students' evaluating their own study process and testing. Testing is undoutedly the most frequently used way to assess a student's language level and study process. Although tests are carried out from time to time, there is a certain routine for them to take place, that is, before, during, and after the course. To be more exact, there are three kinds of tests that are supposed to be taken at...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Winchester 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: This unit seemed to be a little bit dated as far as teaching equipment goes. The use of cassette recorders is really something from the past in the western world now that most everyone has a smartphone. The smartphone can be used as both a recorder or to take videos of the students. That takes care of both audio and/or video cassettes and video cameras. Many students will own an I-pad or tablet which will be wireless allowing the teacher to send information from the main computer directly to the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Tamarack 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: Teachers play various roles in a classroom, but surely one of the most important is that of q classroom manager. Effective teaching and learning cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom. If students are disorderly and disrespectful, and no apparent rules and procedures guide behavior, chaos becomes the norm. In these situations, both teachers and students suffer. Teachers struggle to teach, and students most likely learn much less than they should. In contrast, well-managed classrooms provide...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bogalusa 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: Various types of tests and reasons behind taking/giving them are shown in this unit. They are divided into categories based on the purposes for taking them. We need to take in consideration when it is most appropriated to use which test and what our class aims are. If the students had taken the course in order to be able to sit for an external examination, then we would have to put a great care in preparing useful practice tests that would match up the structure of the given external exam. It is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Irondale Alabama 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: While many English speakers think that there are only two tenses in the English language, there are in fact three key times (past, present and future) which are each subdivided into four categories: simple, continuous/progressive, perfect, and perfect continuous. For example, in this unit, we have learnt about the present simple, present continuous/progressive, present perfect, and present perfect continuous). This means that there are in fact 12 tenses in the English language. Tenses can take three...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Lowell 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 evaluating the students' level of English. The main focus is on the various types of tests acording to their purpose: placement tests, practice tests, diagnostic tests, progress tests and external tests. Some are used to evaluate the current level and the progress of the students during a course (placement and progress tests) and some are to prepare for a specific external test that helps them obtain an official certificate (diagnostic and practice tests). Though there are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Argentina San Juan 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 agree with the idea that speaking is more often the focus and writing gets minimal class time. From a teachers point of view I wonder if this is because it takes time to read and correct pieces of writing, and often there is not time either during the class or after. Unfortunately, in business English, writing is very important for emailing, report writing, and other forms of written communication, and it does need a higher level of accuracy. This unit was helpful as it gave me ideas...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Tama 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 1, I learned both what makes a good teacher and the role of a teacher in a classroom. Specifically, in a typical lesson, I learned that a teacher may take on the role of manager, organizer, assessor, prompter, participant, tutor, resource, model or monitor. The teacher should be comfortable transitioning between these roles when appropriate. I also learned what makes a good learner. These qualities will have an impact on the classroom environment and might affect how a teacher wants to run...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Almaty Kazakhstan 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: \"Managing Classes\" was an intriguing part. When I started going through the unit, I was wondering whether it would mention the \"problem behavior\" issue. Luckily, it did. I have always had question marks regarding how to deal with certain situations related to problem behavior, which this unit helped shed some light on by providing logical ways of how to solve them, especially the technique which suggests focusing on the problem behavior itself than the problem person. It makes sense!This...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Elmore County Alabama 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 the teaching productive skills which are; speaking and writing. They are equally important but I believe that speaking is much easier than writing because English is not a phonetic language. This speaking part of the lessons are going to be easier than the writing parts, because from my experience most people don't really want to write because it takes more thinking capacity and preparing then what it takes to speak. Spelling, vocabulary, punctuation and grammar all have...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bangladesh Narayanganj 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, so far, has been one of the most complex. It has to do with authentic and non-authentic materials, lesson planning, online resources and classroom management. Each of this issues is very complex in nature because it involves a lot of decision-making. Sometimes, it seems easy \"just to pick up a grammar point\" and teach a lesson, but the reality is more complex than that. Lesson planning is one of my major concerns. I perfectly understand the need of a lesson plan to have a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Morvi 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: For Unit 15 on Evaluating and Testing, I learned of the general principals of testing in teaching English as a second language. Most importantly the types of test and the ways of going about evaluation and assessment for students or adults in regards to business, academia, or immigration. There are multiple test with multiple reasons for use, some for record keeping and requirement by the institution you are employed, some for analysis of current understanding, for placement in future courses or...  [Read more]