Teaching Is Like

Our advanced Diploma in TESOL is a popular choice with people who are looking to increase their knowledge and qualifications and/or gain an advantage when applying for higher level teaching positions. It is open to all trainees as it starts off with our standard 120-hour TEFL certification course which covers all the essential subjects required before moving onto the more advanced diploma section. Through the use of the internet and other resources the course allows participants to examine a variety of topics through independent study. The course modules are designed to move participant’s knowledge base from the ‘what’ to the ‘why’ in areas such as the historical development of English language teaching, different approaches to course syllabus design, designing materials,...  [Read more]

1. Introduction 2. Traditional ESL Teaching Methods 3. Communicative Language Teaching 4. Total Physical Response Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in the United States has evolved over the years with various methodologies being employed to help non-native English speakers learn the language effectively. In this article, we will explore some of the traditional and modern ESL teaching methods commonly used in the United States. Traditional ESL teaching methods in the United States often focus on grammar rules, vocabulary memorization, and rote learning. These methods are teacher-centered, with the instructor leading the class and students following along. While effective in some aspects, these methods can sometimes be boring and lack real-life application for students....  [Read more]

1. Introduction 2. Benefits of Virtual English Teaching 3. Qualifications and Training 4. Teaching Opportunities in the European Market In today's digital age, virtual English teaching has become increasingly popular, especially in the European market. With the rise of online learning platforms and the demand for English language skills, there is a growing need for qualified English teachers who can deliver effective lessons remotely. International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT) offers comprehensive training programs to equip individuals with the necessary skills and qualifications to succeed in virtual English teaching. Virtual English teaching offers a range of benefits for both teachers and students. For teachers, it provides the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world,...  [Read more]

1. Introduction 2. Importance of ESL Certification in the Philippines 3. Types of ESL Certification 4. Obtaining ESL Certification in the Philippines In the Philippines, English as a Second Language (ESL) certification is highly valued and sought after by both aspiring and experienced English teachers. With the increasing demand for English proficiency in the global job market, having a recognized ESL certification can significantly enhance one's career opportunities. This article will explore the importance of ESL certification in the Philippines, the different types of certifications available, how to obtain certification, and the benefits it can offer. ESL certification is essential for individuals looking to teach English as a second language in the Philippines. Not only does it...  [Read more]

  The next example is going to be that of a boomerang lesson and remember the structure is like this. So, again, we're going to start with an engage phase and for our engage, the students are just going to have a discussion about jobs. What happens at interviews and so on and so forth. So, during that engage phase, what we'd hope to do is to elicit some useful language about jobs and interviews and the types of questions that are being asked. Then, we're going to move immediately into an activate activity and this is going to involve a role-play. So, we'll break the students into pairs. One will be an interviewer, the other will be an interviewee and they'll generate the language that that role-play will produce. What the teacher can do whilst that is taking place is to go around...  [Read more]

  Like many of ITTT's students Chethan had been teaching for some time before taking his online course. In this TESOL review video, Chethan describes how through taking the course he was able to learn new teaching techniques and adapt his approach to improve his English classes. 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. It's very interesting that there is so much study gone into how to give lessons. I'm wondering what kind of methods these videos were made with....  [Read more]

  Would you like to live and work abroad? With a TEFL or TESOL certificate you can work and live abroad, Teaching English as a Foreign Language or Teaching English as a Second Language. Check out ITTT's courses and start a new life with a TEFL or TESOL certification! 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. It is important to understand the methodologies and to teach and let the students understand them especially if english is not their first language. There...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Teacher: Hoang Thi Thanh Hue Observer: N/ A Date and time: 19/09/19 Class level: Beginner Room: 201 Expected number of student: 10 This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Hue H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. New vocabulary: banana, bread, chicken, cookie, orange juice, milk New structure: I like/ don’t like _____. Teaching aids: a paper bag, 03 real food items, pictures of foods and drink, drawing paper, board, and pens, worksheets Also Read: Can I cancel my contract early when teaching English abroad? For the students to be able to identify and name foods and drinks and talk about their likes and dislike To improve my instructions by demonstrating rather than using...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guanmiao 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. I think we've all had teachers we liked and didn't like, some classes we enjoyed and some classes we hated, some lessons that interested us and some lessons that bored us. What made these teachers, classes, and lessons different? One important thing that can make the difference between an exciting, engaged, fruitful class and a boring, disconnected, unproductive...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangqian Zhen? 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. Teaching young learners is quite a lot of fun, but not always easy. Teachers always have to be on guard (not physically, of course) and ready to deal with whatever problems there may occur. I am not talking about "big" problems but the "small" ones like losing students' attention and willingness to learn. Being prepared does not necessarily mean to prepare the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas For years I have been thinking about my own personal experience as a student with the different institutions, methodologies, and teaching styles that I have been introduced to within my life to improve as a teacher in education that didn't work for me as a student. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Maria A. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. I remember two main experiences that clearly demonstrate the importance of consciously working on building rapport with students. When I was in High School, I really enjoyed reading and learning about why we humans are how we are and I enrolled immediately as soon as I knew that an Introduction to Psychology class had been added to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hekou 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. First off I would love to Thank the Staff at ITTT For putting together a well thought out, informative,thought provoking lesson.I would like to expound upon the subject of Motivating Students in the class room as well as on the various online platforms now in use and popular in many non-English speaking countries around the world. Motivating unwilling Students in the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas As a new teacher, grammar was initially very difficult for me to teach. It was difficult to demonstrate grammar patterns succinctly. Luckily, the school that I work for has provided help by having an established curriculum. The key to teaching grammar, however, has been teaching variable inputs in otherwise unchanging structures as part of student-centered games. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Stephen W. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. If I were to teach the pattern, “What does Billy like?/ He likes _____”, then I would have several options. I could read the pattern and have the students listen. This would be ineffective because the students are only practicing...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas ESL teachers often encounter difficulties when teaching grammar patterns to students abroad. The following 7 activities for teaching the simple present for the ESL classroom will help your students pick up the tense in an easy and efficient way. This is a very good activity for when you start discussing the simple present and how it’s used for routines and regularities. You can place the students into groups or pairs and have them discuss their daily routines. What do they do in the morning? In the afternoon? In the evening? You can then also have them write up a schedule of their daily routines and share their findings with the class later on in a class discussion. Also read: Top Online Lesson Plan Resources for New and Advanced Teachers This activity is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Meiyuan 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. All people are susceptible to boredom and confusion. Either of these, or their combination, can lead to frustration. Once frustrated, a learner will find it exponentially more difficult to grasp or retain new information. The student’s mind will be elsewhere, unmotivated and uninterested. Therefore, an instructor should make it a priority that each and every...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Hello everybody, my name is Liza and I welcome you to the weekly live stream run by ITTT. Today's live stream is going to be slightly different from the previous ones because I'm going to share my screen and show you technical things in real time. So this live stream is going to be devoted to the best tools for designing online English lessons and to make sure everything is clear to you, I want to show you in real time how I design my lessons. As I have already mentioned in some of my previous streams, I've been using a couple of useful tools to deliver my classes. The first is Mira which is an online collaborative whiteboard, and another one is Canva which is a really great designing tool for creating beautiful...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanduo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changdu Shi — Qamdo, Chambo? 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 really liked that there was a section on correcting students. I feel like it gave me a very clear way of how to correct a student without embarrassing the student because that is the last thing I want. I also liked how it showed me specific ways to teach a classroom. It gives me a structure that I can expand on. I really liked that there was a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lijiahu 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. Class management is a dynamic process. It is a process of organizational activities in which teachers use certain means and measures to lead the whole class to plan, organize, coordinate and control the various resources of the class to achieve the educational purpose. It reflects the two-way activities of teachers and students and is an interactive...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Rongjiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lijiang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is reflected for classroom managing. I like this part that is classified according to group and individual teaching. Also like, `establish rapport ` I think This part is important for someone teaching. This unit is reflected for classroom managing. I like this part that is classified according to group and individual teaching. Also like, `establish...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Cuomei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shannan Shi — Lhoka? 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 was clear and concise. I liked that I was able to follow along with all the terminology and the information was indepth. I also like that the test questions were not too long. This unit was clear and concise. I liked that I was able to follow along with all the terminology and the information was indepth. I also like that the test questions...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sanchuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lijiang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is reflected for classroom managing. I like this part that is classified according to group and individual teaching. Also like, `establish rapport ` I think This part is important for someone teaching. And everybody are not same . So maintaining discipline methods are very useful. This unit is reflected for classroom managing. I like this part that is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shigu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lijiang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is reflected for classroom managing. I like this part that is classified according to group and individual teaching. Also like, `establish rapport ` I think This part is important for someone teaching. And everybody are not same So maintaining discipline methods are very useful for controlling problem behavior. This unit is reflected for classroom...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Cuonei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shannan Shi — Lhoka? 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 was clear and concise. I liked that I was able to follow along with all the terminology and the information was indepth. I also like that the test questions were not too long. The course is really an eye opener because the course highlight various methods used to Engage, Activate and Study. This unit was clear and concise. I liked that I was...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mingxinsi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Neijiang 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 feel like I learned the specific terms of some grammar rules. I think it's very easy for English speakers to just memorize how to say certain things but it is definitely harder to know the terms of what we are talking about. I really liked how organized and easy it was for me to learn each grammar rule. I feel like I learned the specific terms of some...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yutang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chengdu Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit gave me a very nice insight into teaching young learners. I need more time to really learn everything but I liked the way how this unit was organized and built up. The seating positions were a bit difficult but in the end I got them hopefully. I really like the tips on how to get different age groups involved. This unit gave me a very nice insight into...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Naqu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Naqu Shi — Nagqu? 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 content i have learnt what methodology is and the different types of approaches and methods that come with this unit. l have also learnt what a boomerang lesson plan looks like and what ESA lesson plan looks like. Overall i now have a better approach to lesson planning and how to go about different ways of teaching In this content i have learnt what...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiyang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ziyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This was the most interesting and useful unit so far and exactly what I was hoping for in this TEFL course. It gave specific theories of teaching with the best theory to use as a new teacher. I liked learning about the various theories, especially the expanded description of ESA. I also like the game ideas. I will immediately start using the ESA theory in my classes ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baishikante Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Kashi Diqu — Kashgar, Kaxgar? 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 we could learn bout the first of tense systems, the present tenses. I liked the the systematic presentation of forms, usages, typical student errors and teaching ideas for each present tense. I also found particularly interesting clear explanation of usages in typical situations. Among the teaching ideas I like the chart method...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ninger Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Pu'er 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. Honestly this unit is so brief and stout it ain't easy to write about. This unit covers all the past tenses with their forms, usages, common mistakes made about them and some samples for activating teaching ideas. Irregular verbs are mentioned as well. The activate teaching ideas are useful I liked them but I don't find them enough in volume. The video contains some...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qianchuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hangzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit was helpful, however it was a bit short. I would have liked more explanations for how to describe the different forms of past tense better. Although I am a native English speaker, I did not know the different forms in past tense. It seems to me like there would be more forms in English, although there is not! This unit is interesting when comparing the...  [Read more]