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Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Being an ESL teacher is not an easy task, especially if you work as a freelancer TEFL teacher online. In this case, you have to be even more organized to provide better services to your students. This blog post offers you 3 apps for digital ESL lesson plans that will save you a lot of time. I know that many teachers still prefer to write their notes and plans on paper because it's the best way to make imagination flow. However, there is a considerable disadvantage with this approach: even if you are a very organized person, in time, it becomes challenging to figure out your thoughts on scattered lesson plans. A digital planner can help you sort everything out much more efficiently. This gives you more time to relax....  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The online mode of teaching has become a primary one in the COVID-19 era. For many teachers, remote work is not easy especially due to a different approach to creating materials. If you still struggle with games and activities for your activate phase of the lesson, take a look at the following three tools that can help you to versatile your Zoom classes and make your students super happy! Yes, it’s that easy! This tool is like a magic wand for ESL teachers because it’s easy to use and very flexible in adjusting dozens of favorite games. It's not just a visual aid for delivering a presentation to an audience, in fact, Google Slides can be used as a tool to create a unique learning experience for students. All you need is to be creative! For example,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Madao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hanzhong 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 English especially to non-English speaking students is really a big and challenging task. You need to be really full of patience, understanding and passion as you decide to enter this vocation. For me, it’s like you are in a “jungle survival” competition. This was exactly my experience when I worked for ten years in the Middle East as a Kindergarten...  [Read more]

Gianluca Costa TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Many people have the dream to travel the world. However, it's hard to travel a lot unless you're rich or work for a big international company offering your business trips, right? What do you do about a visa, and what if you don't speak the local language? Fret not; it's actually easier than you think to find a job in an exciting foreign country. If you are a native English speaker or speak English fluently, why not consider a job teaching English abroad? English teachers are always in demand in countries where the English language is not the native language. Before you start your travel, you should consider getting TEFL qualified by completing a TEFL course, like the ones offered by ITTT. You can complete a course entirely online at...  [Read more]

  Our tefl training center in Alexandria, Egypt offers trainees one of the most fascinating locations in which to complete a tefl teacher training course. Egypt is home to the fertile Nile basin, Valley of Kings and the Pyramids at Giza, while Alexandria itself hosts the perfect mixture of ancient culture and progressive urban life. Cairo and Alexandria are Egypt’s two largest cities; both are rich in modern infrastructure so most creature comforts are readily available. Outside of these urban areas, Egypt has managed to hold on to an agricultural society that hasn’t changed much in more than 2,000 years. In addition to Alexandria, Cairo is a mere two-hour bus journey away. Besides the Pyramids of Giza, Cairo offers a plethora of great museums and other attractions. Between the...  [Read more]

Mark Crocker Teaching Ideas For many new and experienced EFL teachers, one of the most challenging aspects of their career is coming up with lesson plans that are both engaging and effective. Even if your employer provides a specific textbook to follow as a curriculum, you will often find that this can be rather dull for the students unless you spice things up by adding in some fun and original ideas from an outside source. By searching online you will find a huge amount of sites offering all manner of resources of varying quality and relevance. To save you the hassle of searching through them all, we have listed our 5 favorite websites that you can use to find quality lesson plans free of charge. This very useful website offers teachers a wealth of information and resources, regardless...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuanzijie 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. What is volunteer teaching? In my opinion, it is bringing justice to our life. The modern world is made up of contrasts, though it is difficult to realize when living in civilization. But despite the fact that many countries are developing very quickly, there are still many places in the world where people live in much less favorable conditions. This, of course,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dimiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianyang 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 an English teacher who has experienced both education systems in China, I feel uniquely qualified to answer this question. Based on my experiences, there are several major differences between the public school and international school. 1. Curriculum An international school provides a curriculum that is not the national curriculum of China. Instead, it may offer...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fuquan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zigong 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 methods and lesson structure is in integral part of teaching TEFL and TESOL. Having studied this unit I have learned the importance of knowing the students culture. Prasising a student is more important than correcting errors all the time. Teacher talk time should generally be kept to a minimum although there is a time for that as well. A good balance of...  [Read more]

Mark Crocker Alumni Experiences Teaching English to non-English speaking students can be a big and challenging task. You need to be full of patience, understanding and passion if you decide to enter this vocation. I worked for ten years as a kindergarten teacher in the Middle East and at times it seemed like I was in a “jungle survival” competition. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Alona J. I was really in shock when I entered into the classroom on my first day as I had students with zero-English and it was really hard to understand them all. There were also many parents sitting around with their children who were crying and having tantrums. Normally, each class should have an Arabic Assistant Teacher but at that time the school was still in the process of...  [Read more]

  Thailand’s capital city is a thriving, modern metropolis with gleaming sky scrapers rising above the exquisite Buddhist temples that dot the city. Traditional markets mingle with the latest shopping malls selling up-to-date fashions and technology. Bangkok is also home to some of the top restaurants in Southeast Asia and its street food is delicious, cheap and ubiquitous. Bangkok was named as one of the world’s Top Ten Cities by Travel + Leisure and the number one visited city by Global Destination Cities Index Bangkok is one of the most exciting places to visit in Asia if not the world. Whether you’re interests lay in exploring the history of the city and country or in finding the best place for a night out, there is bound to be something for you in Bangkok. Register now...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangping 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. When I was young, I dreamt about thousands of different jobs, but being an ESOL teacher was never one of them. However, I’ve had the opportunity to work with Chinese students ranging from 5 to 13 years old and it has been the best experience so far. How am I going to communicate with them? Am I ready to be a teacher? How will I transmit what I want to teach? These...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chaoshui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yantai 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’m sure there are many teachers don’t prefer using a lesson plan. But also there are some teachers know the importance of the plan. The first time I saw a lesson plan, I was going to secondary school. Although I was having one to one flute lessons with my flute teacher, she was always coming with her lesson plans to the classroom. I was a student and it was so...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wuhuang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ziyang 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 has helped me greatly in the understanding on the many methods and techniques a teacher should learn and know. With the Engage, study and activate stages i also learned that it must start with engage and always finish with activate other than that you are free to use the ranges of styles to prepare and teach lessons. it gave me great insight to all the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tushan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yantai 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. Today’s technology-based society has a significant impact on how English is both experienced and taught. A great number of professionals spend a large part of their day on the Internet and interacting with all that it and ICT in general has to offer. Through it they absorb information, generate knowledge and are both indirectly and directly educated and influenced....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuguopu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Honghe Hanizu Yizu Zizhizhou? 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 covered classroom management. This refers to how a teacher organizes and manages the class while remaining friendly and relaxed and maintaining discipline. Some key ways in which classrooms can be managed are through eye contact, gesture and the voice of the teacher. Teachers can also group students in pairs or the class as a whole, or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiepai 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. One day I was watching some videos on YouTube. I found a video that Ryan made, and that's how I got interested in Japan. He showed us his daily life while he was walking to work, his apartment or the grocery store he went. I watched every single video he had to learn more about the country. I fell in love with everything I saw. I loved how everything was so different...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences What is volunteer teaching? In my opinion, it is bringing justice to our life. The modern world is made up of contrasts, though it is difficult to realize when living in civilization. But despite the fact that many countries are developing very quickly, there are still many places in the world where people live in much less favorable conditions. This, of course, relates to many areas of life: ecology, medicine, the opportunity to get a job, working conditions and wages. At the heart of many of these points is the most, in my opinion, important one – an education. It depends on education what children will grow up in any country. Therefore, many teachers from civilized countries decide to use their educational privilege to help people from poor...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wazijie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yan'an 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. Writing and Speaking: an Ideal Skills-pair? In the context of teacher-training, it is frequently argued that Speaking and Writing should be considered together: they are both productive skills. The natural obverse of this proposition is that, as receptive skills, Reading and Listening should form the other pair. Yet, in the context of the classroom, while putting...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengguo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yantai 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. When I first started teaching standardized testing abroad, I was the good cop and the teacher training me was the bad one. At the time, we shared students, so they were exposed to the routine that one frequently sees on crime dramas. I mention all of this, not to share my personal feelings, which would go against the stated instructions, but to discuss the ways in...  [Read more]

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Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Hello everybody, welcome to the ITTT weekly live stream. My name is Liza, and today we are going to discuss an extremely important topic which is related to English teaching as a non-native teacher. Because the field is pretty competitive, many people want to find out if it is possible to stand out or not. Let's just quickly change the slide. So the reason I decided to choose this topic is that one of my regular viewers asked me about how to actually stand out as a non-native teacher, especially online. I find it is really important, so let's discuss it today and before we move on, please let me know that you can hear me and see me clearly. If you don't know me, my name is Liza and I am an ITTT TEFL expert and I'm super...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Education is the most powerful weapon we have as human beings. A sentence that perfectly expounds the great power of this weapon is: “You can give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Beatrice S. “Quality education” had been a highly debated concept in the past years, especially before UNSDG number 4 (United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on Education) was introduced. Now the international community tends to have a fairly uniform interpretation on the concept of quality education, on which the majority of the countries can count on. The United Nations community has never attempted to provide a full definition of “Quality...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mihe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weifang 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 is it like to teach beginners of the English language? When I was 20 years old, I left my native United States with a wish to travel around the world. As a relatively poor boy of working class means, I bought myself a one way ticket to Amsterdam, as that was the cheapest ticket I could find at the time. I arrived with only ten dollars, no contacts, and very little...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Teaching Ideas Hey guys, it's Liza here and I'm super happy to welcome you to our weekly ITTT live session. Today we are going to talk about some usual teaching stuff and if you are interested in anything related to TEFL teaching or career building, this is for you. Feel free to comment and I'll try to help you out with my thoughts and ideas, and maybe you'll find my suggestions useful. I have to fix my camera just slightly, I feel like it's moving down somehow. I hope that you can hear me clearly and see me clearly, please let me know where you guys are from. Also, let me know what stage of your career development you are at. As for me, I'm a TEFL teacher. I used to teach in China several years ago but nowadays I'm almost entirely teaching online. I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gudao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dongying 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. Zacharias Johannes Pretorius ITTT: TEFL/TESOL Summative Task Motivation in the classroom How can we as teachers motivate our students? In classes all over the world, students of various linguistic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds are struggling with a lack of motivation. Not only in the English as a foreign or second language classroom but also in other subjects from...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bingtuan Yisanyi Tuan? Are you interested in teaching English in Yili Hasake Zizhizhou — Ili? 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. You don't have to be an extrovert to be a good teacher in the classroom. It's more important to be flexible to the environment and your students. This means knowing when to be more lively when to be the disciplinarian and also knowing how to communicate effectively. It's important to make sure that your students are active participants in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinghuacun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luliang 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 two types of classes teachers come across on a regular basis, the first being one-to-one teaching and the second being group teaching. Both types of class have unique benefits and challenges, many of which are not apparent until teaching them by one’s self. Neither class is inherently better than the other. However, one may be more appropriate for a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Beishidian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jincheng 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. Encouraging students to continually develop their English fluency through use of the English language outside of the classroom is an important way to accelerate proficient use of English. The use of this approach would obviously depend on the level of English proficiency amongst the class of students. However, even basic suggestions during class for the outside...  [Read more]