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The Story of Becoming an ESL Teacher - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Teaching is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. You have to deal with different personalities inside the classroom and somehow, you need to work things out for the class to have an atmosphere that is conducive to learning. You have to prepare yourself both mentally and emotionally to be an effective teacher. It is not a cakewalk and you need to have the drive and work ethics to succeed in this profession.
Childhood Dreams
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Top 5 Skills Teachers Need To Set Their Students Up For Success - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Teachers play important roles in the lives of the students in their classrooms. Teachers are best known for their role of educating the students. The best teachers possess excellent communication skills, understand classroom management and appropriate discipline techniques to ensure a positive learning environment. As with all skills, teachers need to continue to improve their teaching skills by sharing with other teachers, continuing education and classroom experience. There are five important skills that teachers need in the classroom to set their students up for success. The focus needs to be on strengthening these skills to increase the effectiveness of the lessons.
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Foreign Language Experience and How it Helps With EFL Training - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
In the following essay, I have chosen to explain my late-in-life interest in becoming certified as an EFL teacher, based on my background with foreign language experience, which began at an early age.
My Story
First Step
Local Culture
Future Possibilities
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I was what some would call an early bloomer. As a baby, my mother read to me at night until I fell asleep. By the age of 2, I could speak in simple but uninterrupted sentences with proper syntax. By a few months after my third birthday, I was able to read the... [Read more]
First Step in Teaching: Reasons to take a TEFL Course - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
I would rather start by sharing my experience with the combination of teaching and living in several different countries to clarify why I have chosen this topic:
My Story
Special Education
Getting Ready
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In the past, when I was younger, I did not have any interest and was not enthusiastic about learning English, and I remember that I always used to escape from foreign language classes. Once I turned to 16 and 17, during high school, I spent most of my time with some friends who knew English well and they were always... [Read more]
How Learning Chinese Made Me A Better English Teacher In China - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
The following blog post is about an ITTT graduate who shares his story on how learning Chinese helped him to become a better English teacher in China.
What do you call someone who speaks only one language?
"My insights into their language and culture were incredibly helpful."
"Many Chinese are anxious about speaking English with natives - more so than is to be considered normative."
"The best ESL teachers are the ones with experience with the native language of their students."
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What TEFL Course to Choose: Non-Native Teacher Needs Analysis - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Haunted House Halloween Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun ESL Halloween worksheet. Students have to read the story and label the haunted house.
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Christmas Roll a Story - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Are your students struggling to come up with stories in English? Not anymore with this fun Christmas roll-a-story!
Print out this sheet and either hand it out to your students to create individual Christmas stories, or play it together with a small group of students letting each student roll the die and add to the group story.
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From Student to teacher in 6 easy steps - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Many people are unaware quite how accessible a career teaching English as a foreign language is while others are simply not aware that it is even possible to live and work abroad in almost any country in the world. Not only is possible but it is relatively easy to achieve in a short period of time. By following the six steps outlined here, you could be working abroad as an EFL teacher before you know it.
Step 1 involves research. Once you have decided where you would like to teach, you need to find out what the requirements are for the place you want to work in. Do you need a degree? Is an online or in-class TEFL certificate required? Find out what the local salaries are like and whether you can afford to work there - some countries are best avoided if you have large student loans to... [Read more]
Unusual Teaching Job as a Life-Long Experience: Alumni Story - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
My personal teaching experience is not a typical teaching job that most people come across. It starts back in the early 1990s. At that time, I was a Senior Prison Office with the Office of Corrections of Victoria and was working in the "B" Division at our maximum security prison H.M. Prison Pentridge.
Unusual Trajectory
Approach to Work
Teaching Approaches
Daily Routine
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"B" Division housed 105 of Victoria's worst prisoners and at the young age of 25 I oversaw them all, I also had 26 rotating staff to help run the... [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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From Student to Teacher - My Language Journey - TEFL Blog
Mark Crocker
Alumni Experiences
It was the last day of Japanese class and my teacher's last day of teaching at our school. We were all standing up getting ready to bow him one last time. It was dead quiet but I could still hear sniffles around me and felt the sadness of the moment. I never thought I would care so much about a teacher leaving. To this day, the words and wisdom my Japanese teacher taught me still ring in my head. Flash forward to a few years ago, I went to Japan for the first time, after a hiatus of not studying Japanese, but amazingly I still had all the skills my teacher had taught me in high school. How did this person have such an impact on me? The answer I have come to realize is that because he truly cared about me becoming skillful in a foreign language. The most... [Read more]
The Real Story Behind Santa Claus - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great infographic to introduce the different stories of Santa Claus from around the world to your ESL students.
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Tefl reviews - Be Part Of Ittt S Success Story And Teach English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
We at ITTT have changed the lives of over 100,000 people around the globe who have graduated with our internationally accredited TEFL and TESOL courses. Move abroad, travel the world and change your life forever with ITTT - where the world is your classroom.
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 onto the next.
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I think tenses receives and gives more attention than any other aspect of English grammar because the value... [Read more]
3 Reasons Why a Teacher is Important for Students - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Everybody knows that English is the most popular language nowadays, and it has been for centuries. Besides the popularity, it is one of the most important and crucial skills and is an international means for communication and expressing one's feelings anytime and anywhere. We can safely surmise that English as a language performs four important services: (a) International Language, (b) Window to new knowledge, (c) Common medium of Reference, and finally (d) Link Language.
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1. Role of a teacher
2. Teacher's Responsibilities
3. Teacher's Competence
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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]
Top Tips For Teaching English Through Stories - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Stories... we live in a world of stories. Every single day we have a story to tell. A funny story, a serious story, a scary story or even an upsetting story. These are the pictures we keep in our minds, like our own little movie playing in our heads. Attached to every story, is language. Language completes our story, it gives our story meaning.
The Power of Stories
Choice of Stories
For Children
For Teenagers
For Adults
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TEFL ONLINE - page 2 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL Jobs online
There are students of English all over the world who prefer to learn English online rather than by physical attendance at a school or language academy. Qualified TEFL teachers are therefore hired by a number of different organisations to teach English online.
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Using Storytelling Activities to Teach English in African Cultures - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Storytelling is used in the African culture to teach morals, values, historical lessons, and to communicate truths to all ages. Because words are highly valued by Africans, a skilled storyteller is viewed as an influential leader in a community, able to give wise advice. Since the method of storytelling is so widely used in African cultures for instruction, why not integrate it into teaching English to African students as a foreign language?
Teaching Linguistic Skills
Level of Attention
Practical Mistakes
Positive Influence on Child Development
Tools of Storytelling
Lesson Plan
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Reasons Why Teachers Need to Build Rapport With Their Students - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
While there are many things a teacher can do to prepare for the classroom, the way students interface with their teachers is something that can be both difficult and spontaneous. Building rapport with students is crucial to maintain a high level of energy and focus throughout a class session.
Students' Comfort
Teacher's Image
Mindfulness
Environment
Interest
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Even though a teacher may have an entire lesson planned out, if students do not feel comfortable participating in front of their teacher, the pace of the class... [Read more]
A Day at the Beach Picture Description - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a set of images that ESL students can use to talk about a story in the past in English. You can also use these images to have them talk about things that are happening right now in the image using the present continuous tense.
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How has TEFL Affected my Personal Teaching Experience: TEFL Alumni Shares Their Story - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
My teaching career started fifteen years ago. It began as a whim. I left a very successful career in the healthcare corporate business sector to teach on the university level. Teaching and advising students has been my dedicated profession since then.
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My Teaching Experience
Teaching Non-Native Speakers
Understanding Foreign Cultures
ESA Methodology
Teaching Business English
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Getting Student Placement Right - The Best Desk Arrangements for EFL Students - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Teaching Ideas
As a teacher of English as a foreign language, or any subject really, you have to consider the seating arrangement in your classroom. Studies have shown that seating arrangements where the teacher can see the faces of all of the students at all times increase student engagement and are therefore beneficial for their learning. Considering this, here are the best desk arrangements for EFL students that you should try out in your classroom!
Single Rows
U-Shape
Double Rows
Clusters
More things to consider regarding desk placement:
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Murder In The Flats - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun worksheet to practice the Past Simple or the Past Continuous. Students look at the pictures and fill in the gaps with one of the linking words in the box in order to complete the story.
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How Will My Personal Teaching Experiences as a Russian Teacher Help Me as an English Teacher? - TEFL Blog
Federico Riva
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
You have to put the emphasis on the right syllable," I said, finishing my demonstration.
Challenges in the Second Class: Timing and Assumptions
Learning from Mistakes: Lessons for Effective Language Teaching
Apology and Humility: A Turning Point
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Carrying Lessons Forward: Teaching English with Confidence
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My very first class of students learning Russian had expressed their disdain for their books with stress notes denoted on every word. They started reading from the copies without the stress marks and consequently were butchering the... [Read more]
How do I become a TEFL tutor? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
There are a number of EFL teaching scenarios that involve tutoring. The most obvious is that of one-to-one teaching. This can take place in a school, a language center, at a business or privately. Regardless of the teaching scenario, the route to becoming a TEFL tutor is basically the same as becoming a TEFL teacher.
In general there are three ways to gain the certification required to become a TEFL tutor. They all involve a course with a minimum of 120 hours of training.
Online TEFL certification
Onsite TEFL certification
Combined TEFL certification
This can be done from anywhere in the world with a computer and an internet connection. Typical 120-hour courses give you up to six months to complete the course, working at your own pace. These courses will cover the main aspects of EFL... [Read more]
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A Lifetime Love for Language Learning - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
As a young child, I was, for some reason, obsessed with the idea of learning French. I tried a couple of languages, including Finnish at some point, but kept going back to French. I have no idea why because I was never exposed to the culture or the language itself at that age. I doubt I even knew anything about the country itself. I think I assumed learning French would make me sound smarter but, the joke's on younger me, I have no skill in French and never have. I tend to struggle with romance languages in general.
My Personal Second Language Experience
My Choice
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Reading Questions - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This reading response worksheet is ideal for practicing story elements, reading strategies, comprehension, text connection, author study, vocabulary work and so much more!
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The Difference Between Business English and General English For EFL Teachers - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
The term business English is used to cover the English language taught to a wide range of professional people, and students in full-time education preparing for a business career. There's a lot more to learning a second (or third or fourth!) language than just vocabulary and grammar because languages are used differently in different contexts.
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Business English is the type of English used in business contexts. Some types of English, like novels or law briefings, welcome long, sophisticated vocabulary. Business English isn't like that. Good writing is direct and to the point. There is less focus on grammar in... [Read more]