Why English Is Important For Students

  It is very important that whenever we?re doing an activity that we use the students names wherever possible when we're asking for feedback and so on and so forth. There are a number of benefits to using the students? names and they can include helping to actually organize the class itself, certainly to acknowledge when a student has given the correct answer and so forth, to indicate who should respond, rather than just asking a general question to the whole class. By using the names we can ask an individual to respond to that particular question. One point to note here is that if you are going to ask an individual student it is very useful if you put their name at the end of the question. This is useful because if you start with their name then all of the other students know that...  [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]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Confidence - how many times we’ve heard about it. That it’s important, that we should have it, that we should build it, that we should help students or any other people develop it. But what does it mean? This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Iuliia S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. It’s been always difficult to explain what is it, as it’s something that comes from feelings of well-being, acceptance of yourself, belief in your abilities, skills, your own experience. I would say it’s a ‘self-power’, that lets you move through any difficulties, helps you to grow and become a ‘someone’. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines self-confidence as confidence in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guang-an-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Guang-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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| There is a big difference between the role of the teacher and the learner From this unit, I feel that I have learned the necessary framework to understand my role as a teacher in relation to the role of a learner This unit depicts the rules of a good teacher and characteristics of a...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences I chose to write about this subject because I feel that the role of the teacher is a really important part of the classroom and also in the student's life. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Tabitha B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. If the class is boring, then the students don't have any interest in learning, so it is up to the teacher to teach knowledge to their students but also making the class interesting for their students. This is not an easy thing for the teacher, it requires a lot of thinking and lesson planning. In my experience, almost anything entertains younger students but the older they get it gets harder to find things that catch their attention....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gaotan 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. Before, I started the TEFL, BE, YL teaching program, I thought the teaching the other people won’t be difficult. However, during the course, I realized about the giving the class is not that easy. The teacher has to check many things such as pre-class, during-class and after-class. Firstly, before-class. The teacher needs to make the proper class planning for...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The class life must be predetermined and must be appropriate for purposes. The teacher is primarily responsible for classroom management and principles. In other words, the teacher is responsible for the learning environment. In this way, classroom life becomes more charming, productive, and useful for the learning environment. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Elif A. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. The first thing the teacher should do to provide the physical and psychological environment required by classroom education. For this, it is necessary to love all students and treat them equally. The teacher is the representative of the modern world and contemporary...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yingtou 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. While most of the preparation for future TEFL teachers is focused on teaching in a classroom setting, many teachers, while working abroad, will be faced with the task of teaching in a one-on-one setting, as tutors or during private English lessons. There are advantages and disadvantages to both classroom styles, for both the teacher and the student, and it is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Miandian 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. Eye contact, gestures, and voice of the teacher are highly important. Eye contact can be used to make students feel involved in the lesson, to ensure that students know what they need to do, to indicate who is to speak, to encourage contributions, to hold attention of students not being addressed, to maintain discipline, to signal to students to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qianhe 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. Classroom management is a term teachers use to describe the process of ensuring that classroom lessons run smoothly without disruptive behavior from students compromising the delivery of instruction. The term also implies the prevention of disruptive behavior preemptively, as well as effectively responding to it after it happens. It is a difficult aspect of teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanfan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. As a teacher, it doesn't matter you are teaching adults or young kids, good classroom management is always important and necessary to your class. It affects your teaching result and affects your students learning result. Why is it so important? Imagine. in class, your students are talking each other when you are presenting the knowledge you would like them to listen...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas A simple definition of motivation can be, the reason why someone is doing something, for example, the reason to be in the class. Why are they taking this class? An adult student can be taking the class because her or his job requires. A young student can be taking the class because their parents are asking for or because it is a subject in school. If this is the case the young student will be not motivated to be in there and learn, this is when the teachers will look for the best way to motivate the student to learn and be present. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Micaela V. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Giving a specific definition of motivation, I’ll quote...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BayuZhen? 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. Now we all know that as a teacher we have to deal with very crucial software and that crucial software is the mind of the learner .As all students are coming from different societies and from different cultures and it’s a very very heterogeneous nature in classroom, some are of them are motivated and some are of them having lack of confidence. Motivation is the key to a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanzhuang 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 I began taking this course, I believed that the most important personal quality for a teacher to have was enthusiasm. After taking this course, I realize that while enthusiasm is important, there are several other qualities a strong English teacher should have. These qualities can be broadly categorized into qualities related to the teacher’s personality,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fuyang 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. Classroom is an environment where the teacher and students interact with each other, and this environment has a management and rules. Classroom management contributes class environment to be healthy and learning process to happen. Therefore, teacher and student can obtain a successful result from this process. One of the most difficult sides of being a teacher is to...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Is it appropriate to punish younger children in an ESL classroom? No, there is no need for that. Punishment is such a strong word to use for children when trying to learn a new language. Learning a new language may be difficult for everyone. It requires patience towards the children you teach and patience towards yourself. Punish us not the word that I would use, discipline is. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Kathrina M. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. At some point, the children in your class would misbehave during a lesson. Yes, it would disturb the flow of the class. Others can also join the other student and misbehave as well. But the students we are teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gongli 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. Establishing confidence in the classroom is a hard task for teachers to accomplish. While difficult, inspiring confidence in your students is crucial to being a successful teacher and establishing a healthy classroom atmosphere. Building a confident classroom atmosphere comes in three forms: setting attainable goals, expressing a positive attitude, and building on the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuxiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In the last couple of years, I have been teaching English in Italy by using one-to-one methodology. I’m registered on a platform called ProntoPro and this is how I get in touch with my future students. Teaching one-to-one can be very challenging, but also very rewarding. From teacher’s perspective it is very important to find the methods that work best for you...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yudu Jingji Jishu Kaifaqu [Yudu Economic and Technological Development Zone]? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Classroom management is simply the organizing of the classroom, providing individual students with equal attention and lastly what generally takes place in the class. The importance of the following is vitally important for the teacher to address this effectively. Let’s start with the teachers role...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baliguan 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. Motivating students is a crucial priority of teaching. Since student motivation is important, teachers should bear in mind some effective ways to get their students excited learning. Even the teacher has students who do not have sufficient enthusiasm for learning, it is possible to make learning fun and inspire them to reach their full potential of learning. Every...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jia 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. If we look for the definition of the word “motivation” in the Cambridge Dictionary, the first result we will find is, “enthusiasm for doing something”. So, we can say, that in order to motivate someone to do something, we will need to arouse the enthusiasm of that person. It is well known, that people in general, learn and work better if they are enthusiastic...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wanghe 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. As Harmer (2007: 153) states, “Classroom teachers do everything they can to make sure their lessons are a success. However, sometimes things don’t work out as well as they had planned.” Whilst there is an enormity of reasons for progress being slow, or limited during lessons, confidence can often be viewed as the fundamental barrier to learning. It goes...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Learning a new language is an inherently challenging task. One important way for ESL teachers to help beginner students learn English is to focus not only on teaching language concepts but on building their confidence to experiment with the language and persist with their learning. This essay will firstly examine why building confidence is important in ESL teaching, and different strategies teachers can employ to do this, including how they interact with students and the content they choose for classes. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Emily U. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Different groups of beginner learners might be especially likely to suffer from low...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Weijiatan 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. To motivate students, it is important to understand them as learners, why are they learning and what do they hope to get out of the classroom. The first thing to acknowledge is that there are two different types of motivation, internal and external. Internal motivation could be things like an enjoyment of learning or meeting a personal challenge, while external...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In the last couple of years, I have been teaching English in Italy by using the one-to-one methodology. I’m registered on a platform called ProntoPro and this is how I get in touch with my future students. Teaching one-to-one can be very challenging, but also very rewarding. From a teacher’s perspective, it is very important to find the methods that work best for you and for your students so you can both accomplish your goals. From my experience teaching, one-to-one is more student-centered and very motivational for the teacher since you need to create constantly new materials. It gives a lot of space to be creative to satisfy students’ needs and interests. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Marija K. Please note that this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in MachanghuZhen? 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. Teaching is far more than instructing students and conveying information. It is a complex social interaction that a teacher is charged with guiding. The videos in Unit 10 provide a clear example of why classroom management is arguably over half the required parts of a successful lesson. Though the teacher is teaching the same information in both lessons, how he...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tingluo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dongying 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 most difficult and important aspects of becoming a teacher is learning how to motivate your students. Students who are not motivated will not learn effectively. They will not absorb the information, they will not participate and some of them may even become disruptive. A student may be unmotivated for many of reasons. Some of that reasons might be that they...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BinhuZhen? 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. Teachers’ role in educational process is very important, but so as parents’. Teachers’ work can’t be successful if the student focus on English only in classes. Only working together as a team teachers and parents can create a good studying environment. There are many ways parents can help their children. Their help is a multi-faceted process. Small steps...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Loude 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. Why do we do any of the things we do, as teachers in the classroom? What is our purpose? Our goal? What are we trying to achieve both personally and otherwise? If you ask this to question to any good teacher, the answer one hundred percent of the time, would undoubtedly be, for their students to learn, understand, and be able to apply the knowledge being presented to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guozhuang 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. In my experience, one of the major keys and factors to understanding and mastering any subject or topic, is confidence. And of course, with that being so, one might conclude that some of the major factors that contribute to under-performance by students and people in general, are things like insecurities, fear and timidity. I know this for a fact, as both a...  [Read more]