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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 Yudaohe 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. I chose this topic because I think I can relate it to my life story and share some experience I’ve had until now. I am the person who loves learning languages. I’ve been learning six languages by now and each of them I learnt in different way. My University Degree is in Turkish language and Literature and the life brought me to live in Turkey. I started working...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuehe 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. As I prepare to return to China for my second ESL journey, I find myself reflecting on some of the problems that I noted which Chinese ESL learners experienced. Below is a description of several of the challenges encountered at an English training centre. Chinese scholars are drilled at school in grammar and vocabulary. Many students had large vocabularies, and some...  [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 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 Zhichuan 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. I have taught one-to-one through tutoring English students on several levels, from five year old young learners, to teenagers and adults in the past. Though all of these were rewarding and have taught me a lot about my own skills, the different TEFL courses also allowed me to apprehend teaching groups and how it can differ from teaching one-to-one. The following is...  [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 Maoping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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 area that probes at my interests regarding teaching and that I have a huge interest in is, “Technology in Education.” It has begun its journey only in the recent past. In many of the current schooling systems around the world we are not taught how to design, we were taught that there is a right way and a wrong way. We are not shown the possibilities of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gaotang 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. I believe that volunteering as a concept is a worthwhile activity, especially if the volunteer is helping a charity. In the field of volunteer teaching, the volunteer can also gain valuable teaching experience which can provide a great start to their teaching career. This follows my personal experience. I started my teaching career as a volunteer teacher of sixteen...  [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 Xuanzhangtun 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. Teaching multiple tenses is challenging because many students view grammar as boring and therefore, they are not enthusiastic about studying. This puts teachers in a position of having to creatively find ways to make lessons interesting and stimulating. Teaching multiple tenses can be accomplished by using a communicative approach. Considering that everyone...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gaodu 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. If you ask someone to teach a class containing a wide variety of ages, you might hear some complaints. As a person who started to go to school almost two years early than normal age, attended many language courses and studied languages with elder people and taught music and flute to classes containing a wide variety of ages, I want to write about the advantages of...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas One of the things we should remember about when coming to the classroom, that this place can become a battlefield: a battle can happen between students, between the teacher and students, with the English language, and the most difficult one - a battle with yourself. These were my thoughts when I started teaching. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Yulia M. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. When you just start your career as a teacher you may know (in theory) or may not know (even in theory) what should you do in your first class, what kind of behavior to choose and how to react to the students’ behavior. But every mistake - no matter how small it is - can shake your...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Until now, I have been an English teacher for 6 months. Before that, in 2016 I was a teaching assistant. That is my part-time job. And this is a journey even though I have not yet taken a TESOL class but I am still confident that I can become a teacher. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Tieu T. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. For the first half of the year, I was an assistant tutor for the preschool. I had very little contact with kids before so I was very confused at the time. I told the teacher that I couldn't make them obey. She is a master of special needs education. She told me to play with them and not to care about helping her. After a while, the kids...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taochuan 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. Motivation in the classroom is the biggest reason why I teach students in a high school setting. I am a public-school teacher and I get English as a Second Language students all the time in my classroom. I am a 10th grade teacher but my students ages range from 14 years old to 19 years old. The number one factor that I teach is for the motivation. My students are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guodao 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. We are teachers. Professionals, some more experienced than others, but professionals after all. We, and our employers and students, have so many expectations on us. I always thought this was usually true when we are working in a school-like environment, with teenagers, kids and young learners in general. But, through the years I have come to realize that these...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chiyan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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. It is been over a decade and I can vividly remember every game I played in primary school. My teachers especially my grade two, Miss Wendy made learning so easy and fun through games. Gosh, I could not imagine how lessons would have been without those interesting games. The reality today is that games have become integral part of our daily life particularly in school....  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Education is said to be the most important factor for a man’s endeavor to build up his/her legacy as a contemplation of his /her achievements of existence. In this computerized millennial competitive world, proper education lots of way to go ahead in the future. It makes persons well prepare in terms of struggles of competitiveness and social integration with intellect skills of belongingness and sound judgment to persevere morally. Every parent tells their kids the value of education as the living legacy for them that cannot be stolen to anyone. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate RICO D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. They want to see their kids towards success...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Songjia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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. Culture clash in the classroom between two students, or between the teacher and a student, can cause major problems in the learning progress of a class. A person’s culture is something that has a huge influence on things like their values, upbringing and even personality, so it is no surprise that when a person feels an aspect of their culture has been ignored or...  [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 Qingshan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weihai 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. Working as a teacher and a native speaker over the past couple of months has taught me many things. Most importantly, it has taught me how to discover my own teaching style. It happened by adapting to every individual student in each class and by transferring some learning techniques I used to use as a student. In this essay I will describe my first day as a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Licao 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. China, as one of the biggest counties in the world. There are over 70 billion people in China. I could say, China has the largest population who learns English. From the new born babies to the older people. It is a good news but if these students didn’t use the right way to learn English, that will be a big problem. Next, I will introduce some common problems in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sanli Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xi'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. To begin with, I’ like to say that I’m pretty excited about writing this summary since this course was an interesting online journey and there are some things to share, indeed. I have noticed that the topics suggested include all the units materials in the strict order. In my essay I’m going to try to incorporate just a little part of the knowledge obtained. To...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baimianxia 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. I chose a TEFL course to complete for making me more professional. I am an English teacher and teaching young kids from the age of 4 to 12 in China. I have been teaching kids for around 7 years. I was teaching kids from Grade 1 to Grade 5 in a public primary school in China. Now I am teaching young kids in a language training center. Teaching in a Chinese public...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huishui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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. Where did you grow up? What is your native language? Did you try to learn any other language? In school? Were you taught by your family and friends? When you hear a foreign language that you don’t know, what is your physical reaction? What is that little voice in your head trying to tell you? My little voice tells my brain to tell my mouth to tell the person...  [Read more]

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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]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas We live in a community where we can have everything we desire with one click, with one single device, on one single screen, we can see the infinitive things the whole world has to offer, and we do not even need to stand up from our sofa to get whatever we want. We live in a world that makes us believe that what we have is never enough; we are always seeking what is not in our house, what is not in our bag, what is not in our garden; human beings are so overwhelmed with a constant creation of any imaginable thing, there is such an overproduction that not even in a thousand years we would be able to benefit and make a true usage of everything which has been produced in the last three years. Humanity conducts an endless...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luohe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Rizhao 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. Students young or old are the building blocks of growth in the world. If no one is learning nothing is expanding. This is why it is important for students to have a motivated and caring teacher. In most cases when students have a teacher who pushes them in a positive way with their education and general well-being. You will find those students are more on top of their...  [Read more]