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  Outlined in the video above are some of the possible jobs teachers can take in order to move on in their EFL career. Below we expand a little more on what each role involves. Teacher Trainer – This position is one that some teachers move onto after teaching for a couple of years. Duties often include teaching a particular module of the course such as grammar, phonology, lesson planning etc. Teacher trainer jobs can be found advertised online but your best bet may be to remain in contact with the centre where you completed your initial training. Director of Studies – The Director of Studies (DOS) is a senior managerial position that includes overseeing the academic program, managing a successful teaching team, providing support and training for teachers, helping the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Difang 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. A physical set up of chairs, table in the classroom can influence learning to a great extent. It is an important factor which has direct influence on the learning of students. Seating arrangements are taken for granted many times but if it is taken seriously it can be used as a tool to accomplish teaching and learning objectives. Good seating arrangements can make the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mengguji 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 advancement in video technology has proven wonders in furthering education. For teachers specifically, it has allowed for them to be trained and professional developed from anywhere in the world. Video technology for teacher training has several benefits, of which I’ll name a few. One of these benefits include the cut down of added cost for the teacher or...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences The advancement in video technology has proven wonders in furthering education. For teachers specifically, it has allowed for them to be trained and professionally developed from anywhere in the world. Video technology for teacher training has several benefits, of which I’ll name a few. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Benjamin D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. One of these benefits include the cut down of added cost for the teacher or their school of employment. Having video technology, teachers can do training without leaving their home to travel somewhere else in the world to get the needed training sessions. Another benefit of video technology in teacher...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jichang 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. It is increasingly common for people to participate in one-to-one EFL lessons. The type of student that enrolls in one-to-one lessons varies widely: the student may be a teenager coming for personal tutoring to improve their marks, they may be an adult learner who has moved to an English speaking country, or a business person who needs to learn English to progress...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore TEFL Information When some people think of teaching English abroad, they assume it’s basically an extended vacation and not a real job. However, anyone who has taken the leap and moved abroad to pursue a career in teaching English knows how wrong this statement is. It’s also true that teaching English abroad is actually one of the smartest moves someone can make as part of their professional career. Here are 5 reasons why teaching English abroad enhances your career prospects. In the globalized business world of the 21st century, employees with international work experience are highly sought after by any kind of business. Having a year or two of teaching experience abroad on your resume will set you apart from other applicants and give you an edge during job...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In today's emphasis on quality education and the development of communicative competence in English, "English grammar "seems to be a big taboo when talking about English teaching. Most English teachers feel comfortable teaching a conversation lesson or a lesson that integrates other skills such as listening, reading, or writing. They show creativity in those lessons and include various ideas to help students improve their language skills. how ever this, however, more difficult when teaching a grammar topic. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Zhang Z. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The goal of grammar lessons is to present the grammar to comprehend the main points and...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences In this course, there were many ideas presented about the best way to teach English as a foreign language, from lesson planning to the activities, to the way the lesson is structured. All of these things were discussed, keeping in mind that learning a 2nd language is very different from the way we learn our first language. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Rebekah P. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. When a person is learning their first language, it is not taught, as it is in a classroom. It is acquired through total immersion. This is the language that is spoken at home, and usually outside the home as well. This makes for an excellent learning environment. The...  [Read more]

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

Linda is a passionate traveler and English teacher exploring the world one country at a time. After studying Mandarin Chinese, she moved to Guangzhou, China, to pursue an internship at a German online marketing company. She loved it so much that she decided to move back to China after finishing her Bachelor’s degree in Management in California. After working in online marketing for a while, she got into English teaching. Teaching English overseas has enabled her to experience life in different countries and fund her passion for travel. She taught English in China for a year and also during my her year in South Korea. She’s been living in South Korea since 2015 and returned to working in online marketing and teaching online in 2016 remotely. On her Website, she shares her tips and...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhengbaotun 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. Working as an English teacher in the kindergarten is very entertaining and challenging, as the teacher will deal with the children who don’t have even a basic knowledge of English, have very short attention span and very different in terms of their behavior. Before I moved to China, I haven’t prior experience in teaching the kindergarten level students,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tongmu 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. My teaching experience began in a whirlwind. I graduated from college a semester ahead of my class, married, lived with my husband in my sister’s basement for two months, and moved to South Korea. We had no idea what to expect. Sure, we’d read the blogs, talked to the director of our school, and even talked with people we know who had lived and taught in Korea. It...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhangqiu 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. I initially undertook the battery of courses available with ITTT in order to broaden the scope of my credentials for living abroad. In the late summer of 2018, I moved from a small town in Iowa with my wife, who had recently graduated with a doctoral degree in linguistics and had obtained a professorship at a prominent university in Kazakhstan. We moved thousands...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YangliuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tai'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. Young learners have a variety of energy and a variety of interests. When trying to motivate students the teacher must use that energy and use their interests as a guide to their lessons. First, young learners, especially very young learners, like to move around and they like to touch and interact with things. Second, like adults, children are very interested in the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Duozhuang 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. It is my intent to help you understand the importance of cultural sensitivity and mindfulness in the classroom by sharing some real-life scenarios and relating them to a teaching environment. When we are going to live and work in another country perhaps the first step would be to think about the seemingly odd behaviors of foreigners in your own home country and try...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengwuxiandangji 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. Teaching is a science and art, it is a science because it organizes knowledge and uses testable processes in its assessment. It is also an art because teachers must apply creativity in the process. A teacher can be described as someone who assists someone to apprehend something. He or she breaks down knowledge into its simplest form that can be understood by...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangcun 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. According to David Crystal (1941), ‘Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.’ While this may be true and speaks to the fundamental usage of vocabulary in any language, vocabulary can also be seen as world-building. Vocabulary is ‘the body of words used in a particular language’ (Google, 2019). While the aforementioned clearly identifies...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Destinations TEFL Information Are you planning on quitting the 9-to-5 and embark on an adventure of traveling the world? The following 10 women have done exactly that. Most of them got their TEFL certificate and are teaching English abroad, while others started out teaching and are now full-time travelers. Here are 10 female travel bloggers you should be following! Jessica from @curiositytrav is from San Diego and has visited 40 countries so far. After studying International Business at San Diego State University, she also studied in Buenos Aires. After her experience in South America, she moved on to teaching English through the EPIK program in South Korea for two years and backpacked around Asia for 5 months after her contract was over. She then moved to Madrid and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daijiaba 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. My experience with foreign languages is fairly extensive along with many different cultures and traditions. After leaving the UK twenty-two years ago. Firstly I travelled around Western Europe and found that most country’s had a good knowledge of the English language Like Holland, German, Belgium, Switzerland So it was fairly easy to communicate .I found the...  [Read more]

  The idiom "elbow room" refers to having enough room to move in or having the ability to act freely, for example: The concert was so crowded that there was hardly any elbow room at all. This means, there were so many people at the concert that you could barely move. 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. Conditional and Reported Speech could be two of the most difficult parts for students, even higher level students. Enormous mistakes and errors could be made...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongcun 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. When teaching one to one, there are many advantages to this, although like most things, some disadvantages too. However, in my perspective, I think there are definitely more advantages to this type of personal attention. For older students or adults, learning a new language is perhaps a little more difficult than for young learners, as older students can't "soak" in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zongxi 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. Teaching a lifelong process involving new techniques and flexibility to facilitate learning. A teacher is a nation builder (- Socrates) and is remembered by the footprints and fingerprints of knowledge he leaves in the mind of those he taught (-Atud ). It is an activity that warrants the exchange and circulation of ideas between the parents (1st teacher), the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Badu 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 a lifelong process involving new techniques and flexibility to facilitate learning. A teacher is a nation builder (- Socrates) and is remembered by the footprints and fingerprints of knowledge he leaves in the mind of those he taught (-Atud ). It is an activity that warrants the exchange and circulation of ideas between the parents (1st teacher), the environment...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences My teaching experience began in a whirlwind. I graduated from college a semester ahead of my class, married, lived with my husband in my sister’s basement for two months, and moved to South Korea. We had no idea what to expect. Sure, we’d read the blogs, talked to the director of our school, and even talked with people we know who had lived and taught in Korea. It still didn’t fully prepare us for what to expect, how amazing it would be, and how hard. We lived in South Korea for 19 months teaching three through seven year olds daily and first through third graders several times each week. This post was written by our ITTT graduate Sarah S. When we first moved to Korea, our head teacher had to teach us how to teach EFL. She had her certification...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xianyang-shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Before starting my TEFL course to gain a more professional basis, I worked as an English teacher in South Korea for about one year Usually when schools put out a job offer in non-native speaking countries like China for example, they will be looking for teacher from native speaking...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zibo 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. Learning English as a second (third, fourth, etc.) language is very difficult for most people. Learning the receptive skills - reading and listening, and the productive skills - writing and speaking, requires the understanding of a complex system that requires considerable effort. It is very easy for ESL students to become discouraged due to difficulty of learning...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences I learned English when I was 20 after my family and I decided to immigrate to Canada from Brazil. I hadn’t had much exposure to the English language prior to the move. 25 years have gone by, and now I have the opportunity to teach English back in my home country of Brazil! Take our 4-week in-class course in Natal, Brazil, and start your own TEFL adventure! This post was written by our ITTT graduate George K. After coming back to my small hometown in the Brazilian countryside a couple of years ago, I met one of my childhood friends, Rodrigo. He had just opened a small English school in town and after a quick chat, I told him that I have decided to come back to live in Brazil after having lived abroad for more than 20 years. He was very excited, not...  [Read more]