In this course, I’ve been reinforced in certain things I have already been doing and have learned to try new things or to alter other activities, actions...
The biggest advantage of this course is that through professional knowledge I acquired from the study materials I gained confidence that I can be a good teacher...
The TEFL on-line course has taught me so much with regards to my own understanding of the english language, how to teach the language, how to plan lessons, how to interact with the students, and to make the teaching efficient, interesting, and enjoyable...
First, I have gained a basis on teaching skills which will make my work (as a teaching assistant) so much easier in terms of classroom management, lesson planning and methodology...
The two most valuable things that I will take away from this course are an idea of english grammar from the perspective of an english language learner and a better grasp of how to plan effective lessons...
I think that the conditions in which I took this course helped me internalize and see different aspects of language teaching as they occur in real life...
It has been often said that in order to really know a subject, one has to be able to teach/convey it effectively to another individual and although I am a native speaker and have used the language almost my entire life, there were many aspects of the language that I never gave second thoughts to until now (For example phonetics)...
TESOL is a very promptly structured and well detailed course and has given me an insight on all the minutes of the language that we need to teach as language teachers, not just that it has also given me a chance to study the details of the various topics covered which enhanced my knowledge and made me more confident to face my students...
As a person who has grown up in a country where english is the native language, one tends to pick up bad habits and take things for granted that non-english speakers do not always understand...
Despite not being extremely excited about having to do this course while traveling in Africa, now that I'm in unit 20 I can honestly say that I feel so well-equipped as I prepare to return to china in mid February to resume teaching at an international high school...
This course has really taught me things about the english language I didn’t even know existed like the way we form sentences and why we do it that way...