Michelle Moon

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sanhechang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bazhong 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. Be careful with the articles When speaking English language it is the question of vital importance to keep in mind the proper use of articles. I want to describe the typical mistakes, which students commit, and interesting samples, which I used to correct them. In my practice I had to explain very often the correct use of articles in simple words, based on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xingma Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bazhong 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. How to Teach English to Children Online, Using Music Angela V. Woodhull, Ph.D. (Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the ITTT TESL Course Certification) July 28, 2019 INTRODUCTION Most children enjoy music very much. When children are first learning a new language, there is a lot of repetition when learning new words. For example, when they are...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Destinations Lunar New Year is one of the most important holidays in a variety of Asian countries. This holiday marks the beginning of a calendar year whose months are cycles of the moon. Typically, the Lunar New Year is celebrated in January or February depending on the lunar calendar. Teaching English in Asia is a great way to experience Lunar New Year celebrations and different customs in the various Asian nations. Chinese New Year is the most important Chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese moon calendar. Chinese New Year is a 15-day-long festival period with the Lantern Festival concluding the celebrations on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Lesson planning is an essential part of your teaching practice. Moreover, it is vital to be creative all the time. This sample lesson plan will help you to set a perfect lesson for beginners or lower-intermediate students. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Michelle M. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. List a number of role-play situations that would be appropriate for beginner and low intermediate level students. These role-play situations should include variety with multiple structures for students to exploit. Also Read: Top 10 Places to Take Your TEFL Course in Spring Choose one of the situations on your list and design dialogue. Make sure that the dialogue your...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences I first understood the role of a teacher during the second grade and knew then that I wanted to be just like my teacher, Mrs. Atkinson. She was the first to see my real character and hidden potential through the windows to my world, my eyes. I believe that teachers were made with eyes that would not only see things for what they are but for what they could become and could achieve. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Michelle S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The teaching profession is seen as a very noble profession, as it represents positive change and growth. Teachers on a whole have gained the respect of others to the point where they can intervene in the life...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shigu 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. Teaching classes containing a wide variety of ages can be a great challenge. I have recently experienced such challenge. Below I am going to share my teaching experience and how I managed to overcome the difficulties. In Spring this year, I was asked to teach an English Drama class in a children’s training center. Before the class started, the students were recruited...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Everyone has a personal genius. It's not up to us to change people, but rather to help individuals be the best they can be with the skills, strengths, and abilities they already possess. The way we go about teaching individuals with learning disabilities will require us to be creative, looking beyond conventional teaching methods. Humility will also be necessary, for we may be the problem rather than the learning disability itself. Will we be humble enough to accept this truth and then use it to improve our skills as teachers? As teachers, the ability to look outside the box and to be able to assess ourselves honestly will be essential if we hope to help students learn in a way that will work best for them. This post...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heze-shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Motivation has proven to be one of the major challenges teachers face in the classroom , where he/she must however engage the students Classroom management is vital to the role of teaching EFL learners of all ages and abilities A highly motivated student is one who is goal oriented, driven by...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas As with all living languages, English is constantly evolving, slangs and idioms is an example of that. Slang and idioms are an integral part of written and spoken English; often it is employed by native speakers and has a deeper meaning than the literal phrase. Some might argue that slang and idioms are not ‘proper’ English and should not be part of the syllabus but people around the world are increasingly getting exposed to Western media. Students might encounter slangs and idioms when consuming authentic materials such as English films and books, where the characters would interact using normal lay speech. Perhaps the students are interested in all these words and phrases that are nonsensical when taken literally and would like to learn about it....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengwuxianboleji 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. Michele Griffin Why Learning Teaching Skills Are Important for the EFL Teacher As a non-experienced EFL teacher myself, learning various techniques of teaching to EFL students is a highly beneficial and helpful strategy to become the most successful and efficient teacher. Without a previous knowledge, such as an ITTT course, or experience of teaching English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wulanwusu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tacheng Diqu? 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 covers the present tenses, which includes the present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and the present perfect continuous. The present simple conveys very basic information about present conditions. It includes facts like "The moon is round" and habits "I go bowling every Thursday." The present continuous conveys actions that are in...  [Read more]

Jon ITTT Alumni Experiences Teaching classes containing a wide variety of ages can be a great challenge. I have recently experienced such challenge. Below I am going to share my teaching experience and how I managed to overcome the difficulties. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Yan Z. In Spring this year, I was asked to teach an English Drama class in a children’s training center. Before the class started, the students were recruited and assigned by the center, which was not in my control. There were 12 elementary-school students in the class. Students were age-mixed, ranging from 7 years to 12 years old. Two thirds of the students were from Grades 1-3 and one third were from Grade 4-6. In order for the younger students to understand my teaching while also keep...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Put simply, children think and learn differently than adults. Jean Piaget, as one of the leading psychologists to explore these differences, puts forth the four stages of cognitive development, unified by an overarching idea called constructivism. He specifically focuses on children rather than all learners and, further still, focuses on development rather than learning. His constructivism theory posits that children form an understanding of the world around them and modify that representation based on their experiences and shifting environments that either contradict or confirm what they have built. (1) Therefore, in working with young learners, teachers should be mindful of this as they promote the acquisition of English as a second language. This...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mituo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luzhou 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 profession is a two-way process that we need to develop. A partnership between a good teacher and a good learner comes along to achieve a fruitful learning. The roles, abilities and functions of lifelong experience makes a good mood for better classroom studying. Teaching profession is a two-way process that we need to develop. A partnership between a good...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Moni Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luzhou 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 profession is a two-way process that we need to develop. A partnership between a good teacher and a good learner comes along to achieve a fruitful learning. The roles, abilities and functions of lifelong experience makes a good mood for better classroom studying. The success of students are greatly achieved from a well-packed teacher. A teacher who gives her...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mengmeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lincang 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 this unit i have learned about different ways to manage the authority as a teacher, how to establish raport, balancing teacher- and student talkin time, how to deal with problems, and also the right use of language and explanation. I can use this information to give the students the right amount of professional information and the right amount of their own...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gucheng 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. There are different kinds of teachers and every single teacher might use a different way how to increase his/her confidence in the classroom. Let's speak about any English teachers at any kind of school. Firstly, I would like to divide all those teachers into three levels. Teachers in the first level are total beginners with teaching experience below 1 year. Into...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lean Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Mianyang 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 understand that teachers serve many other roles in the classroom. Teachers set the mood of their class, build a warm environment, mentor and nurture students, become role models, and listen and look for signs of trouble. The most common role a teacher plays in the classroom is to teach knowledge to children.I have also learned that it's important to know exactly how...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Caohe 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. The best thing I learned is that teaching and learning can be exciting and fun. The teacher sets the mood for the class and helps the students achieve their goals. The teacher’s confidence and positive attitude is important to establish a learning mood in the classroom. If she respects the students, and cares about them, they will respond by trying to learn. The...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liyuan 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. A quick Google search defines culture as: “the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular people or society” (2019). It then becomes imperative to discuss that in a vastly globalizing world, which or rather whose culture do we propagate in the classroom atmosphere? As educators, we are often caught off-guard in multilingual and multicultural classrooms,...  [Read more]

  In this TESOL review video, Emilia tells that having already taught English in several countries around the world, she was looking to refresh her teaching knowledge after taking a break from teaching. After extensively researching available courses she chose ITTT. In this video discusses why her choice was a good one. 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. As a leading role in the class, teachers should be positive. No personal matters or mood should...  [Read more]

1. Introduction 2. Top Coffee Shops in Manhattan 3. Hidden Gems in Brooklyn 4. Cozy Cafes in Queens Are you a coffee enthusiast looking for the best coffee shops in New York City? Look no further! With its vibrant coffee culture and diverse neighborhoods, NYC is a paradise for coffee lovers. In this guide, we will explore some of the top coffee shops in Manhattan, hidden gems in Brooklyn, and cozy cafes in Queens. Whether you prefer a classic espresso or a trendy latte, there's a coffee shop in the Big Apple that will satisfy your caffeine cravings. Manhattan is home to some of the most iconic coffee shops in the city. From bustling cafes in Midtown to cozy spots in the West Village, there is a coffee shop for every taste. If you're looking for a classic New York experience, stop by Joe...  [Read more]

1. Introduction 2. Best Coffee Shops in Manhattan 3. Top Coffee Shops in Brooklyn 4. Hidden Gems in Queens New York City is known for its bustling streets, iconic landmarks, and diverse culinary scene. One aspect of NYC's food culture that has gained significant popularity in recent years is its thriving coffee shop scene. From cozy cafes to trendy roasteries, the city offers a plethora of options for coffee lovers to explore. In this guide, we will take a closer look at some of the most popular coffee shops in NYC, curated by ITTT (International TEFL and TESOL Training). Manhattan, with its iconic skyscrapers and vibrant neighborhoods, is home to some of the best coffee shops in the city. One must-visit spot is Stumptown Coffee Roasters, known for its meticulously sourced beans and...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas As a teacher, keeping students motivated in the classroom is the most important thing in teaching any subject. A motivated student is a positive student and a positive attitude from everyone in the classroom, including the teacher, can change the entire learning experience and ease quite a bit of tension for everybody. Keeping students motivated can be extremely tough for everyone, not just the teacher but the students as well. The teacher also has to understand your students' level, their interests, and their reason for learning English to keep them motivated. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Benjamin O. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The classroom can be scary for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiuxian 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 think it is appropriate to punish (discipline) younger children in an ESL classroom. In my 20 years’ experience teaching children under 7 years old, it is very important to manage and have complete control in class at this very age group.It only takes one student to affect the whole class flow and other students can be influence by him/her. Some children will...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Have you ever wondered why people all over the world are somehow curious about the English language? Or why does a country like Japan wherein the English language is not a requirement to get a job, is on-demand for more competent and effective English teachers? These kinds of questions make me remember my favorite quote, “Everything has a reason”; And yes somehow, English exists for a reason of course. You might be thinking why I entitled this essay “Connecting Dots Through English”, well you will find out why, as you read more on this essay. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Hanah M. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. I love strolling down the streets here...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jindui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weinan 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 classroom management? Classroom management refers to all kinds of activities and measures taken by teachers in order to make effective use of their time, to create a good learning environment and to reduce bad behavior. In classroom teaching, in addition to the task of "teaching", the teacher also has the task of "managing", that is, coordinating and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hedian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaocheng 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. Rapport occurs when meaningful relationships have been established between people or groups of people. It means that those involved in the relationship have come to a mutual understanding of some sort. Rapport in the classroom means that teacher and students have effectively managed to create a meaningful and respectful learning environment, where they learn from...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas If you have already switched to online ESL teaching, you've definitely been using an online board. There are many good options out there, but I prefer using Miro over the others. Miro is a convenient online whiteboard with lots of fun and interactive tools to use during the class and outside. In this blog post, I'd like to share several interactive ideas to enhance your online ESL lesson. At the beginning of the online ESL lesson, start with a warm-up conversation. Ask your students about their mood, day, weather, etc. Just do some small talk of any kind. To support the conversation, you can encourage your students to draw pictures on Miro using the "pen" tool. This exercise is a fun way to break the ice and remember...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences In speaking of any language is global, and in our case, particularly English, several categories could be discussed to give us more understanding. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Frederic S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The first is the history of the language, where did it originate? If we say English was an obscure German dialect we can also say that without knowing more of the history behind it, there would be no way for us to plot its progression or understand its popularity. The second is the spread of the language, how and why did it occur? The third is economic, what were the factors that propelled its growth, and lastly, the cultural category. ...  [Read more]