Personality Type The Teacher

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Teaching, Just like any other profession, is one of the most proficient professions in the world. It requires special skills, maturity, empathy, passion and most of all knowledge and learning personality. Imparting knowledge is beautiful, but how to impart an individual is very important, since the person, must turn out to be productive and successful. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Joseph B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. My communicative personality and my knowledge in psychology and Linguistics make teaching a little more comprehensible. Over the years, I have taught various kinds of subject aside English Language and various Students and I found them all...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinglong 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. My Personal Teaching Experience Teaching, Just like any other profession, is one of the most proficient professions in the world. It requires special skills, maturity, empathy, passion and most of all knowledge and learning personality. Imparting knowledge is beautiful, but how to impart an individual is very important, since the person, must turn out to be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lajing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nujiang Lisuzu 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. In the Unit 3 I learned many important things, such as how a teacher can use his physical presence and voice in the classroom. For example: Moderated eye contact is essential to establishing good rapport with the students. Gestures, in general, can also be effective. I also learned about the types of classroom arrangement. The way in which you organize...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tingkou 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. TEFL teacher can incorporate the nine intellectual intelligences that determine learning styles into the lesson plans for young learners and adults. These include the use of drawings and pictures for visual learners, math and logical games, for students who learn best using logic, music for learners who learn best when music is somehow incorporated into the lesson,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fuchuan 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. Each of us have our preferred way of communicating and being communicated to.A teacher that is skilled in personality profiling can understand the preferred communication style of each individual learner and immediately adjust his or her communication approach. According to the Myers-Briggs Type indicators the following Personality profiles exist. Most people are...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas TEFL teacher can incorporate the nine intellectual intelligences that determine to learn styles into the lesson plans for young learners and adults. These include the use of drawings and pictures for visual learners, math and logical games, for students who learn best using logic, music for learners who learn best when music is somehow incorporated into the lesson, kinaesthetic for students who learn best through psychical movement, students with an interpersonal intelligence, one on one dialogue can be used, intrapersonal, diaries cane used, naturalistic intelligence natural objects can be used in the lesson and existential intelligence can be considered when developing a lesson plan creating existential activities. The lesson ideally should be...  [Read more]

Jon ITTT Alumni Experiences Each of us have our preferred way of communicating and being communicated to. A teacher who is skilled in personality profiling can understand the preferred communication style of each individual learner and immediately adjust his or her communication approach. According to the Myers-Briggs Type indicators the following Personality profiles exist. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Natasha M. Most people are either introverts or extroverts. Introverts generate their energy from being alone and extroverts from being with people, because extroverts love being around people they easily take part in class activities without any hesitation. They enjoy talking to strangers and easily share their thoughts with others. Therefore they are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dagui 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. There has been a lot of research into the teacher’s roles in communicative language teaching, and today’s classification is pretty extensive and detailed. Most teachers are aware of such well-established roles as facilitator, organizer, planner, counselor, etc. Besides, it is quite easy to find description of basic roles on the Internet should you have any...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhengying 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. Seating arrangement is very important to the classroom, as it can significantly influence learning. Proper seating can be benefit for interaction, atmosphere and behavior. So how can we make a proper seating arrangement? To answer that, first we may want to start from knowing some basic information about the classroom, students, teaching style, and objectives. Before...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In acquiring a second language, the end goal of the student and teacher should be shared. The student ultimately wants to acquire at least some level of proficiency in the second language, while the teacher wants to assist them in that task. For most learners, this is a difficult journey that includes a lot of rote memorization and potentially anxiety-causing first-hand practice. Without sufficient motivation, it can be extremely difficult for students to consistently study for the long hours that may be required. It may also prove overwhelming for them when they try to practice the language in the real world. If they are embarrassed about making mistakes, they will need some sort of incentive to overcome those uncomfortable feelings. This post was...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences What is motivation? Which role does it play in teaching foreign languages? How can I motivate my students for effective learning? No doubt, every teacher has once asked himself or herself these questions. Why is motivation such an important factor? Some people even think that motivation is the most important thing if you want to achieve something. Motivation is a phenomenon that drives us to behave and act in certain ways. It drives our willingness and desire to do something. Motivation helps us to reach a certain goal or objective. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Ivashchenko L. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The answer is pretty easy: if a person has a strong...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanshahe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zaozhuang 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. Definition of teaching style The teaching techniques and approaches, as well as activities that teachers employ in teaching in the classroom, is known as teaching style (Cooper, 2001). Grasha (2002) defines teaching style as the continuous and steady actions of teachers in their relationship with students in the course of teaching-and-learning. Jarvis (2004)...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhaowan 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 gradually evolving humanistic tendencies in the life of modern society requires a shift of emphasis from mass pedagogical phenomena to the personality of students and a detailed study of possibilities of their individual development in the process of education. This is, perhaps, the main reason why the modern pedagogy is rather concerned about the personal...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas As a teacher, one often adopts a range of roles in the classroom or online class to successfully execute a lesson and ensure confidence and security for the students during the lesson. Some of these roles include a prompter or facilitator, tutor, participant or observer, controller, or manager. With the roles listed above, a teacher needs to understand which role is adequate and beneficial for the circumstances that emerge. Along with varying roles to take, personal qualities play a very significant role in the classroom setting and rapport that’s created with the students. Personal qualities are the traits and characteristics of an individual that navigate them through life, often reflecting on the way they handle different situations. English...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Motivation is a special ingredient in achieving goals. It is a necessary factor that urges us to act. A person is motivated when his or her activities are positively focussed on a certain end. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Oliver H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The goals to achieve have been set by school, teachers, or parents. Also avoiding punishment can be an extrinsic motivation. An example of extrinsic motivation is when a student does his or her homework to avoid trouble the next day in school and that the student can play football with his friends after homework. Things we are interested in or are attractive to us can be highly motivational. An...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yongshou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Meishan 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 Unit 1 approached the importance and main roles of a good teacher, which include roles that involve the personality of a good teacher and the relationship with the students. The first image that comes to the mind of a teacher is that of a teacher standing in front of the students in the classroom, giving explanations, but throughout the unit, it is possible to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Canzhuang 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. Classroom management is an essential skillset to have when you are trying to run a successful classroom. Management can involve eye contact, gestures, voice, and the way you physically structure a classroom (where the students sit etc.). Eye contact, your gestures, and your voice are all very important parts of managing the classroom. Good eye contact is an...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wujie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chuxiong 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. From Unit 5, I learned how to manage the classroom. From Eye contact, gesture and the voice, I know what kind of eye contact, gesture and the voice I should use. From Grouping students, I learned how I can group them and the advantage and disadvantage of different grouping styles. From classroom arrangement, I know I need to think of the space, type of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongjia 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. The role of a teacher is to help students acquire knowledge, so that eventually, they can be competent in understanding and communicating in English. A good teacher is a successful teacher. The success or failure of a teacher lies not only on his/her teaching styles, but more importantly, the learning of the students. To a certain extent, the personality of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhuyuan 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. Teachers should know how to manage classes to enhance students' learning abilities. Using eye contact, gesture, voice, students' names can get students' attention. Grouping students is important during learning activities. It can be whole-class grouping, students working in their own, pairwork, and groupwork. To take advantages of each type of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nancun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Qingdao 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 student confidence that are important to consider in TEFL. The first is the confidence that is expressed in the moment of learning and producing language, which impacts on the student’s willingness to participate actively in the classroom. To a certain degree this kind of confidence varies naturally, according to personality: some people are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maji 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. There are many different types of teachers in the world: funny ones, boring ones, excitable ones, monotonous ones, stern ones and ones that are just too laid back. In my lifetime, I have had many teachers and experienced many different types of teaching styles. As I considered all these in retrospect, I realized there was a common theme in the handful of teachers that...  [Read more]

  In this TEFL review video for the TEFL International course in Prague in the Czech Republic, Daniel talks about what he got out of the course and how it has prepared him for starting his English teaching career. ITTT's courses can be studied at any of the many training centers located around the world and our online courses can be studied in your own home at your own pace. 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. This unit outlines some of the personality...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pingchuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dali Baizu 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 focused on class management, i.e. how a teacher can effectively manage a class. It teaches on how we can use eye contact, gestures and voice effectively in the classroom without trying to make the atmosphere tense and uncomfortable for learning. It also teaches us on how we can group students stating...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhangdian 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. Teaching skills are very useful and interesting to every teacher due to many reasons. First, they give good ideas about how to establish a good and motivating teaching atmosphere between teachers and students. Second, they provide teachers with many important information and skills to differentiate the kinds of learners; and to adjust teaching plans approach...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tuobuzhongxin? 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. IN THIS UNIT I'VE LEARNT HOW TO MANAGE CLASS. THE FIRST AND FOREMOST THING IS HOW TO USE EYE CONTACT IN CLASS ALONG WITH GESTURES AND YOUR VOICE. THERE ARE VARIOUS WAYS SUGGESTED IN THIS UNIT. SOME OF THEM ARE TO CHECK THAT EVERYBODY IS PARTICIPATING, TO ENCOURAGE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM STUDENTS, TO MAINTAIN DISCIPLINE, TO INDICATE WHO IS TO SPEAK,...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences When a student walks into any classroom, his outlook on the class has a lot to do with how a teacher may present themselves, and the qualities that make up that outward presentation. This concept proves itself to be true as the course goes on, and key concepts are taught. The student's perspective on the material is largely dependent on the specific qualities of the teacher that make him or her a dependable source of information. This essay will explore how patience, listening, and empathy are important qualities for English teachers to have and maintain, and how those qualities are vital in the teacher and student learning equation. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Sierra S. Please note that this blog post might not...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas After the completion of the online TEFL and TESOL, the summative task comes to support our score in one of the topics that the candidate has chosen among 149 topics. As a new teacher, we are more interested in the students’ reactions to our course to create a good and happy learning atmosphere as well as the good establishment of the relationship between the teacher and students. This approach also raises some important questions that one has to try to answer for a better understanding of teaching new languages to students. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Matty A. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. ‘The theory of multiple intelligence was developed in 1983 by...  [Read more]

Estefany Garduño Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas It is evident that, in every classroom, there is a great diversity of students. Diversity talks about race, culture, customs, thinking, etc. Diversity also includes different learning styles of a group of students, for instance, how each student remembers, understands, and applies a concept, new grammar, new vocabulary, and more. The learning styles are cognitive, affective, and physiological features that are relatively stable indicators that help to analyze how students perceive interactions and answer in a learning environment (Gomez, 2004). There are learning styles’ strategies that are developed according to cognitive abilities that are classified either in the Model of the Cerebral Hemispheres or the Multiple Intelligence...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiyun 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. Unit 1: Teachers and learners is teaching me about a teachers place in the classroom. It gives a basic idea of what makes a good teacher and and a good student. I think a good teacher will be able to create good learners within his or her class with an interesting personality, positive attitude and mastery of the spoken language that commands respect. It also speaks...  [Read more]