What A Teacher Should Wear

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shaxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bazhong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There is a great range of cultures in the non-English speaking countries of this world. One is acceptable it one culture may be taboo or offensive in another. When traveling to another country to teach English, it is imperative to learn about the culture where you will be teaching. This will ensure that your students will be receptive to learning English as well as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hexi 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 best thing I have learned from my TEFL/TESOL course can span a variety of different topics, but the topics that stick out most to me are as follows: Level testing and needs analysis, The learning environment, Authentic and non-authentic materials, Games in the classroom and Cultural issues. 1) Level Testing and Needs Analysis. a) Level testing can be a very useful...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xing 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. Coming from the UK and only working with British students, when I arrived in the UAE which is an Arab country following a strong Islamic faith, most of my new work colleagues and students were Arabs and followers of Islam. The last six years of working in the UAE have taught me a valuable lesson about why cultural sensitivity is so important, especially when working...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhangjialou 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. The English language is a widely spoken language all over the world and it has many variations to it but the most common ones are the British English and American English. There has always been a debate about who speaks the best English and who has it right. The American English is not so different from the British English but there are some obvious differences...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zaogoutou 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. This is going to be a short essay on the role of phonology in teaching English as a foreign language. What is phonology? The definition of phonology as a field of study is “The branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds (including or excluding phonetics), within a language or between different languages.” We, as ELF teachers, however, are more...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Coming from the UK and only working with British students, when I arrived in the UAE which is an Arab country following a strong Islamic faith, most of my new work colleagues and students were Arabs and followers of Islam. The last six years of working in the UAE have taught me a valuable lesson about why cultural sensitivity is so important, especially when working with the future generation of a nation, not only am I building rapport as a teacher, but also as a representative of my own country. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Chloe M. Respecting both the culture and faith of your students is the foundations of building a successful learning environment, where the students respect their teacher and feel comfortable in class....  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences The one thing l liked most about teaching was the many jackets one gets to wear. To some l was a fashion icon, to others a role model, to others someone they could easily go to and talk about their life and personal challenges. Hence, the code of conduct for teachers stretches even to their communities and homes. Their mere being impacts the lives of the country's generations and helps build a nation, academically and socially. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Trish A. In 2002, l was doing my grade 4 level, taught by a tall slim and soft-spoken woman from Bulawayo. During the second term of that year, she got married to a local pastor and she had just turned thirty years old. I remember how much l envied her. She had always...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lingquan 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. Grammar is the backbone of a language. It is the heart and soul. Understanding how to use a language properly is important to be able to communicate with people who speak said language. Without grammar, languages are nothing but words. While plenty of people may know words in second languages, if they cannot effectively structure them in sequence correctly, it is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shide 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. Walking into a classroom for the first time can be an intimidating experience! It can be even more intimidating if the teacher has moved to another country to teach English, as communication can be quite a challenge. Also, the teacher is often in an unfamiliar environment and dealing with cultural differences. So what makes a good teacher? Well, personality-wise, a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yulindian 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. I started teaching children and youth ten years ago. Most of these children are diagnosed with learning difficulties, and I am teaching them in a class of four or five students. My students have different learning abilities even though they are all enrolled in the same class of a year level. These students have a session with me twice-a-week, one hour per session,...  [Read more]

Regan McAllister TEFL Information Teaching Ideas The pandemic has caused many changes in our daily lives. While I’m lucky to still have the opportunity to teach ESL in person, doing so with face masks has proved to be slightly more challenging. Face masks. A year ago, the thought of society operating with face masks seemed like some sort of ominous movie plot. Apocalyptic almost. Yet now they are on the same level as our phone or wallet, something we can’t leave the house without. Depending on where in the world you live, you may have never worn a mask until this pandemic. Unless you were in a medical setting, wearing a mask while going about your daily tasks would have probably attracted stares and raised some eyebrows. However, this was not the case in Japan. Masks have always...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Licha 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. As everyone know, teaching before many people is not a simple work. And teaching before many people confidently is realy hard. So, how to increase teachers’ confidence in the classroom? It’s a question we want to answer. If we seach on google or other social network pages, we can see many results like: challenge bad thoughts about yourself, Take care of you,...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Most of the teachers like to arrange the seating arrangement. The aim is the only one which is to make sure all the students focus and understand what is going on in class. Even no arrangement is perfect but yet it helps. As a teacher in a lower primary in one of the international schools in Indonesia, I do like to arrange my students’ seats. With English as a daily basis language and students are from different Asia countries with mixed language ability, the seating arrangement is one of the keys. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Johanna S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. For daily, I prefer my students to seat in a group of 3 or 4. It will be mixed between the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jishi 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. Great care is required when teaching in a foreign country as new teachers need to consider local customs, cultural do and don’ts and common gestures. By doing so they can make the transition easier for themselves, make a good impression on others and explore the things they researched about. By not doing this research teachers can struggle with the unfamiliar change,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daxieji 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. So you want to be a teacher. The thought of preparing our youth to tackle the world gets you all fuzzy inside, does it? Make no mistake, teaching is a noble profession. We put monumental pressure on the backs of teachers to educate future generations. But do you have what it takes to be an excellent teacher? A teacher that stands above the rest, and gives each student...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qiaotou 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. Evertson, Carolyn M.; And Others (1994) have emphasized in their book, the important ways, and steps to be taken in organizing the classroom and the manner in the teaching skills to fulfill the objective of the classrooms. They summarized the following as the most important sections in the classroom teaching skills. 1. Organizing the classroom and the materials, 2....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiangcun 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. Most would simply say that a teacher is that person standing in front of a classroom "teaching", and they wouldn't be wrong. If a little more thought is actually given to the question, people would begin to understand that a teacher is much more than someone reading out of a book or simply following a syllabus, flipping through the pages just to get from cover to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Buji 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. Cultural sensitivity is a crucial topic in TEFL careers because different countries and regions can vary vastly in things like culture, behavior, appearance, and social norms. When traveling to different countries for teaching English, or frankly any reason at all, it is important to research and understand the culture of different countries to ensure polite...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongye Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jincheng 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 relatively unlikely that a class will consist of a set of students with the same level of English listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. In most cases, a class will consist of mixed-ability learners. This can be challenging, even for an experienced teacher, especially if the group size is relatively large. Therefore, it is crucial that teachers at...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Walking into a classroom for the first time can be an intimidating experience! It can be even more intimidating if the teacher has moved to another country to teach English, as communication can be quite a challenge. Also, the teacher is often in an unfamiliar environment and dealing with cultural differences. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Janet K. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. So what makes a good teacher? Well, personality-wise, a kind and patient person who loves teaching and has a lively and entertaining personality would be an ideal candidate. Of course, a good knowledge of the subject and an ability to create a good rapport with the students is also...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Junma 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. Classroom management is an important part of every classroom lesson. Due to the classroom complex dynamics having this skill is important for maintain discipline, to have an organized lesson, to create a friendly and positive environment to nurture the student’s learning. As part of classroom management, maintaining discipline is important to ensure the class is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changshanzi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulumuqi Shi — Urumqi? 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 be honest tenses have always been my weak suit, I was always under the mentality that as long as I was able to communicate regardless of my tense usage, as long as the words never sounded awkward, or the sentence could be understood and perceived exactly as I wanted, then it was fine, its fascinating to re tackle and actually be challenged by and...  [Read more]

  The idiom "blue collar" refers to manual labor or industrial work. The term comes from the usually blue overalls manual laborers would wear in factories etc 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. Very nice unit to learn ,as it provides us the most important stuff that each teacher must have it in the class. Also how to be prepared and make sure that everything works well before the lesson start. Finally The advantages and disadvantages for the course book...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhuji 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. Each of the mentioned types of classes has its own benefits and drawbacks, and the approaches are quite different. Let me start with describing teaching one to one. I started my teaching career with working with individual lessons. It seemed to me very comfortable, as I could establish a good rapport, good personal connection with the students. It is easier to go through...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shitan 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. Motivating students. For the past decades English plays a major role in international arena. It keeps us competitive for the rest of the world. It’s not a secret that for many countries English is foreign language. In accordance with Kachru “Three circle model of World Englishness” (1988), Turkmenistan belongs to the third circle – expanding circle and for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Laiwu 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. Maintaining motivation in young children For my summative task I have chosen this topic as I am teaching English at the Primary School. From my experience, I have discovered that young children learn from everything they do. They are naturally curious; they want to explore and discover. If their explorations bring pleasure or success, they will want to learn more. During...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas I have been working as an English teacher for almost five years and I have a lot of experience in teaching children and adults. Therefore, after learning these units, I can gain a better understanding of class management. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Wenyi L. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. When it comes to teaching children, class management is essential. Children have an innate curiosity, which is a big motivation. They like looking for something new and learning it. Studying when you were a child has many advantages. However, it is not easy for children to focus on what they learn for a long time, even less than fifteen minutes. If they lost their attention...  [Read more]

Najwa Sabih Destinations Alumni Experiences Turkey is one of the most beautiful countries where you can have a lovely vacation. There are many touristic sites and fascinating places that will mesmerize you with the beauty of this country. Though, living in Turkey can be challenging. It is completely different from coming for tourism. When I decided to move to Istanbul almost two years ago, in October 2020, it was still the period of the covid-19 pandemic. This was really hard, as the companies were still closed, and everything was online, which made it hard for me to find a job. I was still an undergraduate back then, which was also a negative point for me to be able to have a job. Later, things turned out for the best. When I first came here, I believed that it was very hard for me to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sanjia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Suining 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. Examining Unit 2 I first hoped to find out my weak points in English grammar. Coming to the end I became really optimistic about my grammar background and experience. The fact that all the information is perfectly formalized helps to analyze my own volume of grammar knowledge. In my future teaching activity I am planning to be efficient and not to frighten my...  [Read more]