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Roles That an ESL/EFL Teacher Plays in the Classroom - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
One of my favorite aspects of teaching is the role of the teacher in the classroom. To some, the role of the teacher is only to teach people information that they then regurgitate during a later exam. However, to me, teaching is a fascinating profession because a teacher is many things to many different students.
Instructor
Friend
Role-model
Conclusion
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A Sample Lesson Plan for Students with a Short Attention Span - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Anna D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
General recommendations
Preparation and Class Routine
Here's an example of a lesson plan:
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How do you motivate TEFL students? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
To motivate TEFL students, understanding their age group and unique challenges is crucial. Young learners often respond with enthusiasm to fun activities, while adults are typically self-motivated, attending classes with clear objectives. However, teenagers present a distinct challenge. Due to heightened self-awareness, they might hesitate to participate out of fear of mistakes or peer judgment. To enhance motivation in teens, implement strategies that boost their confidence, incorporate relatable content, and create a supportive classroom environment that encourages participation and reduces fear of errors.
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The Crucial Role of Motivation in Student Learning - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Apart from cognitive development, there is the moral and social development which are very important as well. Because, very young children do not understand that people have different feelings and experiences, but these perspective-taking abilities develop over time until it is quite sophisticated in adults. Kohlberg's divided it into three levels. The first one is the conventional moral reasoning which is based on personal needs and determination and other rules to avoid punishments. The second's called the conventional Moral Reasoning which is based on the family's expectation, traditional values, the laws of society and loyalty to the country. The third is called the post-conventional moral reasoning is based on the universal ethical principle... [Read more]
Phonetics and Phonology in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
What is phonology? Most students have not even heard about it. Whenever I ask my students whether they know or have ever learned about phonetics, the same answers come out, "No, we don't know about it at all". It is no wonder they reply like this because there is no phonetic teaching lesson in English classes from KG to high school here in my country. As for me, I got to study about this only when I attended college. Even then, it wasn't taught comprehensively and I only learned very little. So I couldn't read nor write phonetic symbols very well. Thus I thought it was the most difficult part of studying English.
Reasons to pay attention to phonetics
Phonetics in the early years
Benefits
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Roles a Teacher has to Possess to Help Students Love English - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
"A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it" Goethe
Accessor
Observer
Role model
Guide
Participant
Assistant and motivator
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The role of the teacher is very important in our lives. A good teacher provides us with knowledge, motivation, and encouragement while creating interest in his subject. He cares about his students and demonstrates patience. An experienced teacher knows what role or roles to take during his lesson. The most important role is the role of an organizer. The teacher instructs the class through daily activities. He may also split students into pairs for role-playing or encourage mill drill exercise, where students come to each other, ask... [Read more]
Story Time Reading Comprehension - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a quick beginner reading comprehension about Sam and his family. The students read the short text and answer YES or NO questions about the story.
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Transforming Lives: Unveiling the Profound Impact of a Teacher's Role - TEFL Blog
Federico Riva
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
The role of the teacher has experienced many shifts throughout the history of education. In a general sense, teachers in the past were more looked upon as glorified babysitters than educators. It was completely normal and acceptable for teachers in the past to follow a set lesson plan for all students. They would not try to accommodate specific individual student needs, and if students were to fall behind, it was just seen as that student was not smart enough to keep up with the class. Nowadays, the role of teachers has shifted towards adaptable teaching as well as nurturing healthy relationships with students in order to help them find success.
Building Trust and Mutual Respect
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Halloween ESL Roll-A-Story Activity Sheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This Halloween Roll-A-Story is an old favorite, where students roll dice to determine their story’s character, setting, and conflict. Print it out and give it to your student for a fun, Halloween-themed activity!
Have your students come up with a Halloween story by using this handy roll-a-story activity sheet! Give your students a die and let them roll to get their story’s character, setting, and conflict.
Once they filled out all the blanks, they are ready to begin writing their story! Once everyone is done, have them read their stories out loud in front of the class, or organize a spooky story night where the stories are shared.
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Noun Types in English Grammar - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Nouns are naming words which make up the most common category of words in the English language. Within this category there are several different types of nouns with specific roles to play.
Nouns are the most common type of word in the English language and therefore make up a large part of EFL language lessons, particularly in lower level classes. As an EFL teacher it is recommended that you have a solid understanding of the different types of nouns so you can help your students make rapid progress in this area of grammar.
Common nouns are used to name a GENERAL type of person, place or thing.
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St. Patrick’s Day Crossword Puzzle - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun crossword puzzle that you can play with your students for St. Patrick's Day!
Across
4. Dublin
5. tap
7. pinch
9. seventeenth
11, shamrock
12. green
13. Irish
Down
1. March
2. luck
3. blarney
6. Ireland
7. potato
8. leprechaun
10. clover
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Let's Talk: Daily Activities - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great speaking activity to talk about daily activities. Your students roll the die twice to find a question to talk about. The first roll determines the number on the top and the second roll determines the number on the left.
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Candy Cane Word Search - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun word game puzzle to play with your EFL students during the Christmas holiday season.
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Unreal Conditionals - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a set of cards to practice unreal conditionals questions and short answers with your ESL students. They work in pairs or groups and interview each other.
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A-Z Lower Case Alphabet Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This a fun and simple game like Snakes and Ladders for students to play with young ESL students to practice upper case letters of the alphabet.
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Fun EFL Winter Word Search - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun word game puzzle to play with your EFL students during the Christmas holiday season.
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Go Fishing ESL Icebreaker Printable - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is an easy classroom activity to encourage your ESL students to speak in English. All you have to do is cut out these fish with the questions to play.
To play, simply print out the sheet, cut out the fish and laminate them to make them more durable. If you want to be really creative, you can create a pond or a fishing area in your classroom where your students can “go fish.”
Another great idea would be to have the fish in a box or container and let students draw them out one at a time.
To make fishing rods, all you need is string, magnets, and dowel rods. Be sure to also attach some magnets on each fish and your students can start fishing!
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Present Simple Battleship - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This game is to practice the Present Simple Tense questions and short answers. Students draw the ships on their boards and then they start shooting, trying to guess, where their partner's ships are.
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The Body Game - Parts of Body Vocabulary - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This fun game is perfect for practicing the parts of the body with your ESL students. Have them roll a die and color the body parts in the correct colors.
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Vocabulary Review Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This printable board game is great for practicing vocabulary words with your students. Play the game as a reward or when you have some time left at the end of your class.
This board game is the perfect activity to review vocabulary and help your students with their speaking skills. Print it out and play it with the whole class or play it in your virtual classroom.
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3 Creative Zoom Lesson Plans for Children - TEFL Blog
Hoàng Minh Huy
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences
Due to the pandemic, distance learning has replaced traditional classroom instruction worldwide. Teachers in Hong Kong are attempting to find ways to instruct their students while at home under quarantine. To help you stay inspired when instructing online, I'm going to share some enjoyable games and activities to play with kids using Zoom in this post. If you've never used Zoom, you must give it a try with your students; you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Show and tell
Draw and guess
Board game
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Name 3 Things Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is the perfect board game to play as a time filler activity for your ESL class. Your students take turns rolling the die and naming three things around the topic on the board.
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Advantages and Disadvantages Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun ESL board game about the advantages and disadvantages of different topics. The students roll the dice and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the topic they land on.
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Evaluation and Testing in EFL and ESL Classrooms - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Most of us grew up being constantly evaluated by taking a wide variety of tests for all kinds of subjects, all with the goal to show how much you know and how capable are you. Throughout school years teachers evaluate your performance, and your knowledge they based on of on the results from several quizzes, exams, and tests, and commonly based on results they know how to approach each student's needs, or so they assume that the standardized score is accurate. Growing up you learn whether or not you are a test taker, you will find those who do amazing on tests but do not really pay attention in class, you will also find those who get really nervous and struggle but still do well, and you also find the ones who know all the material and cannot test well.... [Read more]
Roles of a Teacher in The ESA Appoach - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
One of the most crucial roles of the teacher is to improve students' performance. In daily lessons, teachers are engaged in different classroom scenarios, performed teaching duties, and rendered extra effort to help maximize students' learning. Another thing that adds to this noble task is the diverse roles of the teacher he/she has to play.
Engager
Servicer
Activator
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The Many Roles of the Teacher in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
The role of a teacher is constantly changing throughout the day. The teacher's role can be influenced by: the lesson, the students, and the circumstances that might arise during a classroom session. Teachers frequently perform various roles when teaching students, some of these roles include: instructor, facilitator, mentor, psychologist, counselor, and policeman.
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A teacher can act as an instructor.
A teacher can act as a facilitator.
A teacher can act as a mentor.
A teacher can act as a psychologist.
A teacher can act as a counselor.
A teacher can act as a policeman.
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Tefl Review For In Class Sydney Course - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this TESOL review, one of our recent TEFL/TESOL trainees talk about his experience at our training center in Sydney, Australia. He especially enjoyed working with the local ESL students and creating interactive and fun lesson plans to teach them various language points in English. He is excited to start teaching English overseas with his new TEFL and TESOL teaching qualification. After completing the course, all trainees receive lifelong recruitment assistance with thousands of job offers from around the globe.
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Classroom is a Stage and Teacher is an Actor - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
A teacher must assume many different roles as they perform the task of teaching both during the lesson and outside the lesson. By outside the lesson, I am referring to the Lesson Planning, materials to be used set up and classroom organization. During the lesson is, of course, the actual teaching of the students. As listed in Unit 2 there are 6 roles in total including Instructor, Facilitator, Mentor, Psychologist, Counsellor, and Policeman. These roles are true for all levels of teaching and are modified to suit the age and level of the students. In the case of teaching Younger Learners, it is very important to consider their age in terms of attention span, interests and sense of imagination and fun. Perhaps even more important is to consider the... [Read more]
The 3 Basic Functions of a Good Teacher - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Teachers play a number of very important roles in the education process. Education forms a significant part of everyone's lives as it can contribute directly towards future possibilities and the roles we can play in society. This essay will discuss three of the most important roles played by teachers. The first is the role is that of a facilitator of learning and education, the second role is that of the role model, and the final is the role of the mentor and motivator.
1. Educator
2. Role Model
3. Mentor
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Traditional Approach Comparing to The Modern Point of View Towards Teacher's Part in Teaching - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
In traditional teaching, teachers are not only the teachers of teaching content, the controller of the teaching process, the organizer of the teaching activities, the judges of the students' academic achievements, but also the absolute authority. This kind of teaching style of laying too much stress on teaching by teachers instead of understanding and learning by students themselves overstretched the dominant position of teachers, ignoring the students at the center.
Teacher-Centered Approach
Another Point of View
The Controller
The Prompter
The Organizer
The Creator
Teaching Content
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