Am I Too Old To Teach English Abroad

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhanglan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The baby's birth is indeed a happy and exciting moment for each family. However, at first, many parents are severely stressed due to lack of knowledge about child development. Child development is a matter of concern to all parents (and later teachers). How to help baby to develop in the right way? How to notice problems in development? When and what methods to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhihe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chengdu Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit 2 covers learning theories, classroom environments and teaching methods for young learners. The course divides young learners into two groups; Group 1 covers ages 5-9 years and Group 2 covers ages 9-13 years old. It was interesting to study the characteristics between these two groups, as well as Piaget's four stages of child development: 1) Sensorimotor (birth-2...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Miaoba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is all about general theories of learning and development. It discusses how we learn languages the other languages and our native language. Moreover, it defines the four learning and behavior theories which are constructivists, maturationists, environmentalist, and others. This unit also reviews the three ESA lesson and those are straight arrow, boomerang...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dushi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Young learners can be divided into two groups. Group one is students aged 5 to 9 years old and group two is students aged 9 to 13 years old. The style and how a lesson should be carried out would be different as the needs and attention span are different. A teacher also got to play multiple roles in a lesson; a facilitator, a counsellor, an instructor or even a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chaoyang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Topic: English as a global Language. Title: Do you speak English? Nowdays, people are suddenly interested in improving their english and are looking for teacher or academies that will work miracles and help them learn as fast as possible and without any effort. This is why I chose this topic, and in this essay I will explain how important it is for us teachers to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dayan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In the second unit, Teaching and learning, I learned about the unique ways of which teaching children from the ages of five to thirteen and their expected learning outcomes. In order to organize, the unit broke up the young learners into two groups. The five to nine year olds have different likes and learning styles than the nine to thirteen year olds. The most useful...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Teaching has been my dream since a very young age! This should be the normal and most common answer when you ask a teacher about his childhood dream job. For me, It was absolutely the opposite. I have never seen myself teaching anybody even my closest friends and relatives! I have always considered myself an introvert. My best friend used to be a book I’m reading! I have never liked crowded places or getting to know new people! Going to a wedding or a party was more like a nightmare to me. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate MANEL R. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Anyways, all of this has changed when I helped a friend in teaching his class. At that time, I have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hefeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Deyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Lots of good information in this unite on Course Development. I was given ways to develop a course for young and elementary students, Saw the level of Starter, Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate and Upper Intermediate, what their qualities of each level was the Diagnostic and Need Analysis to determine what level of students there are. Was given information on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Linba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unite talks about the different ages of our students, also the different learning stages they will be in.. How to plan our lesson according to age. A 5 yr old needs a completly different lesson than a 9 yr old. Also it mention that we might learn the same was as L1 by being fully involved in the language. This is something I agree with, since I myself am learning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bailong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linfen Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I am a Brit, born and bred but I now live in Japan.
In the summer of 2017 I finished up my university degree and moved to Japan following my graduation. I got married to the Japanese man I had been dating for the previous 2 years and we began our marriage together in one of the rural areas of Yamaguchi Prefecture. 

We started to live together in Kudamatsu...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangzhuang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linyi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There are various differences and things to keep in mind when teaching English language classes to young learners versus adults. The teacher of these classes needs to be aware of several factors that will allow the participants from these distinct age groups to be motivated and enthusiastic for learning. We discovered in the TEFL units that young learners are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chengdu Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is about the differences in teaching and learning in terms of two very distinc groups of students based on age and level. Group one being composed of five to nine years old and group two being composed of nice to thirteen years old. Then it goes into the methadologies within the scope of teaching and learning. First being maturation theory in which simply...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changzhi Gaoxin Jishu Kaifaqu [Changzhi High-tech Development Zone]? Are you interested in teaching English in Changzhi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. As twenty-six years old student and teacher, I have already encountered a variety of students. They differ in age, gender, work occupancy and most importantly in motivation to learn English and what they want to achieve. I always prepare the class according to their needs. I make sure to accumulate the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Malinggang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Heze Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Due to the booming of freelance jobs, the amount of adults learning new languages to live and work in other countries, or to work in their home has increased: It is not the same teaching a young student than teaching an adult, but that does not mean that adults cannot learn a second language, despite their age or native language. A second language can be acquired as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Duanjia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baoji Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. For many years, English teachers have used the PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) as the preferred teaching model. However, since 1998, with the book by Jeremy Hamer « How to teach English », a new method has been in use: ESA (Engage, Study, Activate). In this book, the author had elaborated the methodology and in depth the use of these 3 elements in teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hanxue Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching adults and young learners have many similarities and differences. It is important that teachers understand how these two groups deal with learning and what the challenges teachers can find during their classes. Age The difference between young learners and adults: Adults are students who are 18 years old or more. There are three categories of young...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhangdian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. We all know that English is the 2nd most common spoken language in the world. If we are ever someplace where we don't know the official spoken language of, we often use English to communicate with people because it is considered a universal language. So it is presumable to think that people would like to learn English fluently because it is such a common and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lejiawan Zhen Zhengfu? Are you interested in teaching English in Xining Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. 1. Teaching methodology A ‘standard communicative approach’ is used, where all the teaching is in English. However, as they are only 3-5 years old, a local teacher may be needed to assist the English teacher to manage kids who could be emotional, e.g. crying or keeping quiet. Lessons for kindergarten kids are student-centered, with speaking being a major...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas By the time a child is a year old, they can differentiate between the sounds that make up their first language but can’t distinguish between sounds that aren’t found in their first language. Even in the case of sounds that children may not be able to correctly produce until they are six years old, such as the /r/ sound. So, it would make sense that by the time a child is just a year old the way they learn language changes, as stated in Dr. Ryalls’ class. Further on when a child is finally in school they have some grasp of grammar, even if it isn’t complete by the time the child is school-aged. This means that by the time a child is in school when they would most likely start learning a language, they already have to contend with the differences...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences The majority of children turning 5 years old attend kindergarten for two years in preparation for primary school. Some kids enter kindergarten earlier at the age of only four. This actually varies according from state to state and also from country to country. In China, most kindergartens combine childcare with teaching so that the children will develop physically, morally, and intellectually in a harmonious way to get ready for their formal school education. A good environment is assured for the kids to have a conducive place to learn actively. Teaching English in China can be overwhelming considering that English teachers are also assigned to teach kids as young as one year old or even younger. Chinese parents prioritize the education of their...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dacao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dezhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Five years ago, I didn't have the experience, nor the knowledge to teach English. However, I have the skills to speak like a Native Speaker. At first, I have 3-4 students between 2-3 years old. I was given lesson plans to follow and instructions on how to teach this group and I simply followed it. Teaching 2-3 year's old non-Native speakers were both difficult and fun....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dazhou-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou-shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL 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 unit discusses, four major groups of learning and developmental theories This unit was, again, a bit lackluster; especially so when, such as some of the classroom arrangement questions, don't appear in the text Overall, different aged student have to be taught differently Overall,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kangyi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jining Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I am Sarah, I am from China and now working as an English teacher in Beijing, China. I have been teaching for ten years after I graduated, kind of experienced, however I still learn a lot from ITTT EFL course. In this course, I learnt something which I have already known but haven’t formatted in my mind. It’s really useful to learn something like teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lingkou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangluo Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Majority of the kids turning 5 years old attend the kindergarten for two years in preparation for the primary school. Some kids enter the kindergarten earlier at the age of four. This actually varies according to the state. In China, most kindergartens combine childcare with teaching so that the children will develop physically, morally, intellectually and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Panlong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changzhi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. For the past year, I’ve worked in a daycare, working with kids from six weeks old to five years old. As might be expected, this job has shown me just about every behavior issue I could think of, and a few more on top of that. From social issues to emotional issues to some physical issues, I’ve seen most of it, and the job has made me realize that no behavior...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Five years ago, I didn't have the experience, nor the knowledge to teach English. However, I have the skills to speak like a Native Speaker. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Amina C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. At first, I have 3-4 students between 2-3 years old. I was given lesson plans to follow and instructions on how to teach this group and I simply followed it. Teaching 2-3 year's old non-Native speakers were both difficult and fun. It's difficult because they are not familiar with the English language. Moreover, I am not familiar with their native language either. It is fun since typically all they want is to play games. Furthermore, the lesson plans...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore TEFL Information Teaching English abroad is one of the most interesting career paths one might take up. You get to move to a new country and even get paid for it! However, too many people are unsure whether teaching EFL is right for them. This article highlights 6 things you will miss out on if you don’t teach English abroad. When routine becomes a ball and chain, you know it’s time for something new. Moving to a new country to teach English is the perfect opportunity to discover a whole new world. Whether it’s cherry blossom season in Japan, Chinese New Year festivities in Taiwan, Christmas markets in Germany or the Carnival in Brazil - there are new experiences ahead of you on every corner! It’s not only large cultural festivities like these that you will get to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuchi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is quite long and it has a variety of contents such as learning and behaviour theories, differences between the acquisition of native and second language, the environment of the class based on students sitting plan etc. The part including what five to nine years old like and don't like and what nine to thirteen years old like and don't like is very useful...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changling Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I learned a lot! There was such a wealth of information in this chapter. I learned about the 4 major schools of thought in language learning (such as the Maturation-ists and the Environmentalists). I also learned about the different ways to teach 5-9 year old students (with less emphasis on instruction, and more emphasis on student engagement) compared to 9-13 year...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhengdian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dezhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. What if students don’t like me? What if I forget my planning and ruin the whole lesson? What if I trip and fall flat on my face? What if this and what if that, these are the type of questions that go through a new teacher’s mind before they enter their first classroom. Stepping into a classroom for the first time can be overwhelming and a new teacher can easily...  [Read more]