What Does It Take To Be A Teacher

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Indonesia? Are you interested in teaching English in Banjarmasin, Indonesia? Check out our opportunities in Banjarmasin, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit gave explicit information on what a coursebook is for a teacher and what materials a good teacher should use to remain GOOD. There are definetely quite a few of English...  [Read more]

First we should define what is meant by accreditation. In general, business, industry, educational companies, and institutions are by regulation or voluntary means, subject to some form of external checks by an accrediting body. In terms of the ESL teaching industry there is no single overarching body that does this. Historically the growth of the ESL market, which has taken place worldwide, has resulted in many such accreditation bodies coming into being. Accreditation agencies are generally made up of a variety of sources, such as universities, examining bodies and private companies of varying size and coverage. When and how the accreditation takes place is up to the individual accreditation agencies, but over time a number of generally accepted worldwide measurement indicators...  [Read more]

Home / CELTA Trinity Courses / Torbay Beach lovers will be very happy with the location of the Torbay center as it is situated just a 10 minute walk from the water. Away from the beach you will also find many other ways to enjoy your free time including go-karting, a waterpark, cinemas, and dozens of cafes, bars and restaurants where you can unwind. In the wider area you can take a trip to any one of many popular towns and villages, such as the fishing port of Brixham, the popular tourist resort of Torquay, and the historic market town of Totnes. The natural beauty of the south west of England is right on our doorstep, with miles of secluded beaches and quiet coves to explore and the wild expanse of Dartmoor just a short drive away. The...  [Read more]

Home / CELTA Trinity Courses / Torbay Beach lovers will be very happy with the location of the Torbay center as it is situated just a 10 minute walk from the water. Away from the beach you will also find many other ways to enjoy your free time including go-karting, a waterpark, cinemas, and dozens of cafes, bars and restaurants where you can unwind. In the wider area you can take a trip to any one of many popular towns and villages, such as the fishing port of Brixham, the popular tourist resort of Torquay, and the historic market town of Totnes. The natural beauty of the south west of England is right on our doorstep, with miles of secluded beaches and quiet coves to explore and the wild expanse of Dartmoor just a short drive away. The...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Japan? Are you interested in teaching English in Yaizu, Japan? Check out our opportunities in Yaizu, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! There is no set rules on how teaching a classroom should go, or no exact way to teach. The most effective path to take when introducing yourself to a new classroom is to adjust and the learn about what will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaibei, China? Check out our opportunities in Huaibei, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit emphasizes different methods of teaching . Not everyone learns the same so there are many ways to go about getting students to understand concepts and learn; and for practice to take place;...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Finland? Are you interested in teaching English in Finland? Check out our opportunities in this beautiful US state, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| The content for the unit included a discussion of roles to be played by the instructor as well as several descriptions of levels of learning proficiency. In addition, the unit discussed the potential A profound difference in teaching attitude and preparation by the teacher...  [Read more]

  Our next particular methodology is accredited to James Asher around 1965 and is called total physical response. Asher looked at the way in which we learn our native language and he saw that most children, before they even went to school, have picked up a very large percentage of both the grammar and the vocabulary that they would use in their native language before any type of formal schooling. So Asher started to have a look at ideas of how to use the whole of our brain in language learning in the way that we do when we're very young. It's accepted that within our brain there are two hemispheres, one is the left hemisphere the other is the right hemisphere, and one of the functions of the left hemisphere is language learning. One of the major functions of the right hemisphere is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Liupanshui, China? Check out our opportunities in Liupanshui, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit discusses reading and listening as the important learning skills that they are. Knowing how to speak a language is not enough, one needs to be able to listen to it being spoken and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Cixi, China? Check out our opportunities in Cixi, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! When students are taking a class to learn a new language, their teacher is the direct vehicle of that new language. How the teacher approaches the class and how they treat their students can have a profound...  [Read more]

Home / CELTA Trinity Courses / Madrid Madrid is a thoroughly modern and diverse city that is home to a multicultural population that is happy to share their hometown with visitors. As the capital and economic hub of the country, Madrid is also known for its booming market for qualified English language teachers, with a large number of jobs available in many different fields. Public and private schools, language centers and private businesses are all good options to explore once you have completed the course. Madrid is also popular due to its wide choice of things to see and do. At one end of the scale the city has several world-class museums and galleries, such as the Museo del Prado, Museo Reina Sofía and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. If art...  [Read more]

Home / CELTA Trinity Courses / Madrid Madrid is a thoroughly modern and diverse city that is home to a multicultural population that is happy to share their hometown with visitors. As the capital and economic hub of the country, Madrid is also known for its booming market for qualified English language teachers, with a large number of jobs available in many different fields. Public and private schools, language centers and private businesses are all good options to explore once you have completed the course. Madrid is also popular due to its wide choice of things to see and do. At one end of the scale the city has several world-class museums and galleries, such as the Museo del Prado, Museo Reina Sofía and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. If art...  [Read more]

  Before looking at the methods or approaches themselves, there are some terms that we need to define. These are the approach, the method or the technique. Basically, these are hierarchical. The approach is an overriding set of principles that a method can actually make use of, whereas the technique are the things that we actually do in the classroom to approach that method. So, these three words are going to appear during the presentation. Again, for each of either the approaches all the methodologies we're going to ask four questions. So be it an approach or a method for each of those things: Where did it come from? What's its background? What does it involve when we're talking about actually in the classroom, in other words techniques? What is positive about it? What appears to...  [Read more]

The journey to becoming a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) teacher often comes with numerous questions that may not fit neatly into specific categories. This section addresses a variety of miscellaneous FAQs related to TESOL certification and teaching English abroad. Whether you're curious about job search tips, classroom management strategies, or what to pack for your teaching assignment, you'll find answers to these and other common questions here. This comprehensive guide aims to provide clarity and support as you embark on your TESOL journey, ensuring you have the information you need to succeed. an I teach English in countries with different dialects?    Teaching English in countries with different dialects offers unique challenges and...  [Read more]

Teaching English in a voluntary role is a very popular choice with TESOL course graduates. There are a wide variety of different options available, located across many countries worldwide. Below we take a closer look at some of the main questions you might have about volunteer teaching, in order to help you decide where the best places to teach English as a volunteer might be. There are plenty of great reasons to volunteer as an ESL teacher and everyone who does it has their own motivations. Some of the most common reasons include: The bottom line is that volunteer teaching programs are available on almost every continent and within dozens of individual countries. As there are too many different options to mention, the best advice is to do an online search of the countries that...  [Read more]

  Here now is a teaching idea for the present perfect tense. If you remember back, one of the main usages of the present perfect tense is to talk about past experiences at an indefinite time. Here, will be having students work in small groups. Each small group will receive a prompt. This prompt has various past experiences. However, not conjugated into the question. The challenge for the students will be to take one of these prompts and to create a question based upon it. For example here they see 'win' and 'a competition'. One at a time, the students will take turns forming the question. 'Have you ever won a competition?' The other people listening to the question in the small group, will exchange their past experiences, either 'Yes, I have,' and perhaps tell a bit about the...  [Read more]

  So, the document itself needs to contain some general information about the class, for example the name of the teacher, the date and time of the lesson, what level of class is being taught and in what room, how many students are we expecting, this is important, when we've got things like photocopying and materials to do, what is the context of the lesson, in other words, what is the lesson actually about, what vocabulary or grammar point is this lesson covering and sometimes it's also useful to write out what the focus of the lesson is. So, in effect, the context of the lesson is telling us the grammar point, for example, that might be the present continuous tense, whereas the focus is telling us how we're going to go about teaching it. Another example to illustrate this: Let's...  [Read more]

The English teaching world is famous for its love of acronyms and TESOL and CELTA are two common ones that you are sure to have come across when researching English teaching overseas or online. Although these are both well known within the teaching community, they can still cause some confusion among new teachers in particular. So what do they stand for and which one is better? TESOL stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. The term is used to refer to any training course or certification that is aimed at English speakers who want to teach English in their own country, overseas, or online. It does not refer to any individual course or certificate. A quick bit of research will reveal there are many different TESOL course providers out there and they offer a wide...  [Read more]

  This video covers the difference between 'in' and 'at' when used to indicate a location. They often cause confusion for English learners as they both refer to a location in a sentence. However, 'in', as a preposition of place, is usually used to talk about the position of someone or something inside large places such as countries, continents, big cities and similar, while 'at' is used to refer the position of someone or something inside small and unimportant places such as villages or small towns. 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...  [Read more]

ITTT is dedicated to assisting you throughout your TESOL training and to providing you with a means of support during your ensuing teaching career. If you have any questions regarding our courses, please see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section below. Our TESOL FAQs should be able to answer most of your questions, but if you have any other queries do not hesitate to contact us by submitting them using the form at the bottom of this page. What does TESOL mean?   The acronym TESOL stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. The term is commonly used when referring to certification courses that provide the skills necessary to teach the English language to non-native speakers in your own country or abroad. Read more What is the difference between TESOL...  [Read more]