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The Three Key Parts of Classroom Management - TEFL Blog
Mark Crocker
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Proper classroom management is a crucial skill in teaching English as a foreign language. A good teacher will possess the skills and an awareness of how to navigate the classroom setting. Furthermore, a teacher who has good classroom management will produce a positive learning environment where learning is maximized. Three critical skills in classroom management are rapport building, effective lesson planning, and using a diversity of teaching resources.
Why Establishing Rapport is a Crucial Part of Classroom Management
Why Lesson Planning is a Crucial Part of Classroom Management
Why Diverse Teaching Resources are a Crucial Part of Classroom Management
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Parts of the Day - Prepositions of Time - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This infographic looks at the prepositions of time AT, ON, IN with parts of the day (morning, afternoon, evening, night).
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Simple Teaching Ideas Esol - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
For the teaching idea in this ESOL video students are given a set of pictures that feature events in a person's day. In pairs the students will need to put the pictures in an order of their choosing and then create a story about the person's day using the past simple tense. For example: She woke up and had a cup of coffee. She went to be at 9 o'clock. If you would like to become an ESOL teacher and travel the world experiencing new cultures while enabling people to improve their opportunities in life, then you should take a TESOL course. Taking such a course will give you the knowledge and skills needed to make you an effective teacher of English. Visit our site by following the link above for more information on the courses available to you.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Present Contiuous Teaching Ideas 3 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this TEFL training video we look at one of three teaching ideas for the present continuous tense. English grammar lessons like this are taught on a regular basis and ITTT's TEFL training courses can show you how to use these activities to your advantage in the 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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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Simple Teaching Ideas 3 Tefl Courses - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this video we look at the last of three teaching ideas for the past simple. This is a two part exercise that involves students initially guessing the answer to a given question before taking a poll on what the real answers is. This is idea is one of many that can be learned on one of ITTT's online TEFL courses. There are number of options available to study from short 60-hour introductory courses to longer 120-hour TEFL courses. It is also possible to take ITTT's TEFL courses in-class at one of many locations around the world. Please visit the link above for more information about the courses ITTT provides to help you become an English teacher.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Present Continuous Teaching Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this TEFL training video we look at one of three teaching ideas for the present continuous tense. English grammar lessons like this are taught on a regular basis and ITTT's TEFL training courses can show you how to use these activities to your advantage in the 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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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Present Simple Teaching Ideas 2 Tefl Online - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video outlines the second of three teaching ideas for the Present Simple tense. The students each have a picture with the title "This is Nicola. Nicola is a student. This is her room." In the picture there are lots of items such as a television, a coffee pot, a guitar....In small groups the students list as many facts about Nicola as possible using the Present Simple. For example, She plays the guitar. She drinks coffee. She watches television. After a specified time the groups come together and share their answers with the class. ITTT provides a variety of TEFL Online courses and certification options, all of which will give you the tools you need to begin your new career as a qualified English language teacher. Studying online is a convenient way to earn your teaching... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - English Grammar Present Continuous Teaching Ideas 2 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this TEFL training video we look at one of three teaching ideas for the present continuous tense. English grammar lessons like this are taught on a regular basis and ITTT's TEFL training courses can show you how to use these activities to your advantage in the classroom. The TEFL lesson in this video can be found in our 140-hour online TEFL certification course.
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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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Future Perfect Teaching Ideas Teach English As A Foreign Language - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video from one of ITTT's teach English as a foreign language courses covers three teaching ideas for the future perfect tense. The future perfect is used to talk about things that will have been completed by a certain date in the future. The first idea involves asking students the following question "What will you have done by ...?" with an appropriate time in the future. For example: "What will you have done by the time you are 25?" "I will have become an English teacher". The second idea involves giving students monthly calendars to complete and asking them to say what they will have done by the end of the month. The last idea involves asking questions about a famous person and what they will have achieved in the future. "How many awards will she have won by 2025?" "How many... [Read more]
Where are the best places to teach English as a volunteer? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Teaching English as a volunteer has become an increasingly popular choice for those seeking to make a difference and immerse themselves in diverse cultures. While opportunities abound globally, some top destinations include South America's remote communities, Asia's bustling cities, and Africa's rural schools. Each region offers a unique experience, from the rich histories of Cambodia and Peru to the vibrant traditions of Kenya and Colombia.
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Parts of the Body Word Search - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This word search is ideal to review the parts of the body. Students must find the words in the word search and also write them below the correct picture.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we focus on useful teaching ideas for this tense. A great idea to practice this tense is a picture story. Here, the teacher provides the students with various photos or images and the students are asked to piece them together to make a story in the past.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Continuous Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past continuous tense and suitable teaching ideas for this tense. The past continuous is very conducive to using pictures and talking about actions. We give our group of students cards with images and ask them to create sentences for what the people in the picture were doing at a certain time in the past.
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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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Perfect Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past perfect tense and suitable teaching ideas for this tense. We'll ask our students to describe what a person in a picture had just done before the photo was taken.
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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The 3 Most Important Tricks When Teaching English to Kindergarteners - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Walking into a kindergarten classroom in any language may have most teachers running right back out the door. A kindergarten classroom can be like a circus. The teacher is the ringmaster. The students range from man-eating lions to trapeze artists to clowns. It's important to remember that kindergarten students do not understand they are meant to be learning great truths and skills that will set them up for the rest of their life. They want to play, love, be loved, and enjoy every aspect of life to the fullest, even when they are sitting in the classroom. Even the physical excitement that kindergarteners have can be used to create an even deeper understanding of language and should never be seen as bad. Children love to explore and learn.... [Read more]
The 4 Easy Things That Will Help You to Build Great Relationships With Any Classroom - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Establishing rapport in the classroom is essential if you are going to have a successful class. In this paper, I will examine some of my classroom experience and compare my successful classes to my less-successful classes. In doing so, I hope to make an observation about "best practices" that I can implement in my English teaching. Along with using my own experience, I will be talking with other teachers that I know and using the provided text that I have been given for this course. The three areas I will focus on are: Beginning the course, student participation, and being positive.Beginning the Course.
1. Determine the course in the beginning
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Going To Future Tense Online Tefl Course Efl - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The 'going to' future tense is used to make predictions based on evidence and to talk about plans and intentions. This Online TEFL Course video discusses two teaching ideas that can be used with the 'going to' future tense. The first idea encourages students to make predictions based on evidence with a weather forecasting activity. The students are given information about the weather in a particular country and give weather forecasts for the following week or month: On Monday it's going to rain in the morning but then it's going to be sunny for the rest of the day. In the second teaching idea students discuss plans for an upcoming birthday party/holiday: We're going to eat at a fancy restaurant. I'm going to have a massive birthday cake. I'm going to sunbathe the whole time. We're... [Read more]
The 10 Crucial Skills for ESL Teachers to Develop in 2022 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
hey everyone out there my name is lisa and i'm super happy to welcome you at another livestream session with itttt uh while i'm waiting for some more people to join let me know if you hear and see me clearly um i hope that today's live stream is gonna be smooth um and flawless because um last time i saw like a comment uh stating that there were some issues with the sound uh so just in case that you experienced some troubles listening to me please let me know in the comment section i will be super super happy if you give me some feedback okay uh so uh today's live stream session is uh devoted to a rather uh controversial point because there are so many things that appear these days online and in the real world and i feel like it is absolutely important to discuss what um skills teachers... [Read more]
TEFL Manuel Antonio - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL Costa Rica ▷ ITTT course
Join our TEFL course in Costa Rica and experience one of the most stunningly beautiful locations anywhere in the world. Lush jungles, turquoise waters, small bays and some of the best beaches in the world, Manuel Antonio is quite simply incredible and undoubtedly one of the best locations to take your TEFL course in Central America. As if that isn’t enough, once your course is finished, we will provide you with lifetime assistance finding employment. Teaching English in Costa Rica is a great experience and our TEFL course in Manuel Antonio has proved to be increasingly popular. Costa Rica is an amazing place to visit, live and work thus its popularity for TEFL courses comes as no surprise.
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How long does it take to get TEFL certified? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
The first major factor that has an impact on how long it will take to get TEFL certified is which type of course you choose to take. There are three main TEFL course types to be aware of:
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The most common form of in-person TEFL course is the four-week, 120-hour TEFL certificate. Trainees on this course usually travel from their home country to one of many locations around the world to take the course. Courses should involve a theory component, covering language awareness and teaching skills, and a practical teaching component where trainees teach classes of real English language learners and receive feedback. These courses usually take four... [Read more]
Why You Should Focus on Lesson Planning - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Every great teacher knows that the secret to a successful lesson is a solid plan. There is more to teaching than what happens in the classroom.
Things to Include In Your Plan
What Will You Achieve
Parts of a Lesson Plan
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TEFL China - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Elementary English Teacher
Date posted:2024-04-17 | Writer: Nord Anglia Education | Email: [email protected]
We’re looking to recruit an Elementary English Teacher to join our Dalian Huamei Bilingual School, a Nord Anglia Education school.
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Established in 2010, Dalian Huamei School provides bilingual education in grades 1 to 12 for full-time Chinese students.Based on the Chinese curriculum requirements, the courses incorporate elements of an international program, such as American English and the sciences. Lessons are given in Chinese and English, creating an immersive learning environment. We also provide Grade 3 to Grade 12 students with opportunities to develop the ability to live independently.Guided by our School Wide Learner Outcomes, we aim to help students develop academic... [Read more]
Non-trivial Ways of Teaching Speaking and Writing - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Many language learners will have the difficulty of creating something new in the targeted language. Reading something written out loud is not as challenging or rewarding as reading your own work. When a language learner starts creating her own work, then she can start feeling productive and confident in the targeted language. There are many different ways of teaching productive skills such as speaking or writing.
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Natural skills
Higher level of interest
Types of writing
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TEFL UK - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Homestay Efl Teachers Needed In The Uk
Date posted:2020-08-03 | Writer: Anglophiles Academic | Email: [email protected]
Anglophiles Academic are looking for EFL Teachers to work in our Homestay Centres in Kings Lynn, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Nottingham, Plymouth, or Mallow in Ireland. Due to the current situation, tutors must be a resident or live within commutable distance to the Homestay town, as accommodation is not provided. We have two type of posts available, they are:-Post 1: Full-time Tutor: 15 hours or 30 hours (dependent on excursions) a week and supervising afternoon activities from Monday to Friday.Post 2: Part-time Tutor: You will teach 15 hours a week from Monday to Friday in the mornings only.Travel expenses for your daily commute (to and from Centre) are not covered.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:To teach, usually... [Read more]
TEFL Seville - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL Spain ▷ ITTT course
The beautiful city of Seville is a great choice of location for your TEFL course in Spain. It is the capital and largest city in the region of Andalusia in the south of the country and is also one of the largest historical centres in Europe. Throughout the city you will find fascinating narrow streets full of magnificent monuments and historic buildings which stand as a legacy to the city's ancient heritage.
Seville is quite possibly one of Europe's most beautiful and exuberant cities and is well known for its easy going, laid back atmosphere. Sevillians also love their food, especially tapas which the city is credited with inventing, and has more than a thousand bars where the choice of dishes is staggering, from seafood to sausage, from vegetables to cheese and virtually any other... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Future Tenses Future Continuous Teaching Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Now here are some teaching ideas for the future continuous tense. Here, we have an activity where we'll be asking students to spontaneously make some excuses based upon some invitations. We can do this in pairs or small groups. The teacher will have cut these cards up and the students will place them into a pile, randomly picking up a card. So one student might pick this card up and say 'Would you like to play tennis with me tomorrow?' The other student will be challenged to come up with an excuse as quickly as possible, which might be 'No, I'm sorry I'll be working.' Then, we have the next student pick up the next card and we challenge an additional student to make an excuse. Here we have another teaching idea for the future continuous tense and this involves two students trying... [Read more]
Two Main Ways of Teaching Vocabulary to English Language Learners - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
Vocabulary has a direct impact on written and spoken language comprehension. All students come to school with differences in their vocabulary knowledge, and part of teaching them how to be successful in English is to teach them vocabulary. Vocabulary development plays a critical role in helping English language learners increase their ability to communicate in the receptive and expressive domains in English. This is why vocabulary must be explicitly and systematically taught.
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My Experience in Child Development - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
I have experience in Childhood development. I've taught over twenty plus years. My experience ranges from infants to school-age children. I have always taught three-year-olds and up. For almost two years, I have had the pleasure of working with children that are 18 months to 24 months old. I am the Lead teacher for our Toddler program.
Growing Expertise
Every Child is Unique
Early Childhood Education
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The Best Ice Breaker Games Every EFL Teacher Should Know - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
hi guys hey linda here from itt with another live session this week i'm so happy to be here again hope to see many of you guys today thanks so much for joining if you're listening to this as a podcast episode thank you so much for the download we recently just hit 3500 podcast downloads which is super exciting thank you so much for your support and um yeah today's topic i'm really excited about because it's something a little bit different than what i'm usually talking about and today i'm going to share with you the the best icebreaker games that every efl teacher should know so yeah i'm gonna be showing you guys what fun games you can play in your classes i know that some of you are already teaching and you probably know some of these games or you know versions of these games so feel... [Read more]
How do I get TEFL certification? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
If you plan to teach in your home country or you are yet to decide on a location, taking an online TEFL course might be a good way to start as it offers a flexible and convenient route towards certification.
How does an online TEFL course work?
How does an in-class TEFL course work?
How does a combined TEFL course work?
How will I receive my TEFL certification?
If you have a specific destination for teaching in mind it is often best to head there or to a nearby location to complete an in-class TEFL course. Following this path will allow you to find a suitable job in your preferred area and you will be more than ready to start teaching as soon as your course is complete.
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