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Teach English in Saint John - TEFL Courses

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Brunswick? Are you interested in teaching English in Saint John, New Brunswick? Check out our opportunities in Saint John, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net 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.
Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT!

Things I wish I'd known before starting the course (78) Teaching english as a foreign language is an exciting job, but entry can be tricky, at least in South Korea. A teacher has to beware of employers that don't offer any training. It may be up to the teacher to go get training. There are many things I wish that I had known before starting the ITTT tefl course. First, I wish I had known how to write a lesson plan. I also wish I had known about classroom management. Finally, I wish I had seen the video lessons from the tefl course. Before taking the ITTT tefl course, I wish I had known how to write a lesson plan. I had never worked as a teacher before accepting a job in South Korea. I was told by my employer that I would receive on-the-job training. This turned out to be a lie. I arrived in Korea on Christmas day and was thrust into a classroom the very next day, before jetlag had begun to wear off. I had no lesson plan. My classes went horribly. A couple of my co-workers took turns observing my classes. The only feedback I would receive is that I needed to plan more, but nobody sat down and told me how to do that. My boyfriend was too busy with his own schedule to help me, so he suggested that I take an online tefl course. Now, for every lesson at school, I use a very similar lesson plan model, using Engage, Study, and Activate stages as well as I can. There are some factors in my classrooms that are outside of my control, such as random quizzes and tests being administered to students and other such interruptions without my prior knowledge. Still, having lesson plans gives me a guide map to get through my classes more easily. I'm learning to adapt my lesson plans on the fly. I wish I had known about classroom management. I didn't do a great job of establishing rapport when I first got to the school because I didn't know how to go about it. I was nervous and I had a teacher watching my class, so I thought I'd better start going over the course book with the students. Now, I use the lesson plans to help with classroom management. Just having a plan helps to maintain control of my classes. I use the Engage stage to help build rapport with my classes now. We'll discuss the lesson topic before we begin, or play a short game like rock paper scissors or hangman. I have also started making worksheets, which has helped already. My students like my worksheets more than the course books, even though we still have to complete everything in the course books. The students have liked most of the ideas I have gotten from the ITTT tefl course for my Activate stages. The younger students absolutely love role playing and playing Pictionary. Through these better lesson plans, the students are more excited about class, which has helped motivate them in most of my classes. I still have discipline problems with two of my classes, but I am even seeing slow improvements in those classes. In one of those classes, the students are around 14 years of age, the rebellious age in which they're not motivated to do much of anything. They're forced to be there, at a night time academy, after having woken up at 7:30 am to attend public school all day. Also, unfortunately, they're low level students with intermediate level course books and materials. The nasty truth about several Korean academies is that students are often passed along simply so their parents keep them enrolled. If the students were to "fail" or kept in the proper level, their parents would find a different academy. Money is a bigger motivator for my employer than quality education. I wish I had seen the video lessons before starting the course. Those video lessons proved helpful in showing me what works and what doesn't work in the classroom. I had made some of the mistakes in the first video, such as not learning english names and not having very good Engage activities (or none at all in my case, a lot of times). I adapted ideas from the second video into some of my classes. Some of my classes had a lesson on selling a product. I modified the man's "create your own animal" lesson into an "invent a new product" lesson, which worked really well with my classes. First, we discussed products. We talked about different types of products, where you could buy them, which companies made them, and what their favorite products were. We also talked about cheap products that they didn't like. Then, we went over the course material and reviewed vocabulary and expressions. After that, we invented a product together on the board. I elicited ideas from the students and wrote them on the board. Finally, I had students work in pairs on a worksheet I prepared for them to name their product, several details about the product, and a drawing of the product. Then, they got to present their products to the class. I also asked students what they heard at the end because I think this helps them practice listening skills, and it holds students who aren't speaking accountable for what their classmates were saying, forcing them to pay attention. The ITTT tefl course has already helped me in the classroom. I'm sure it will continue to help me and it will be instrumental in me finding a new, better job in South Korea. I'm very thankful to have had such a wonderful tutor with a lot of good input and insight. Her advice has been very helpful and her grading has been prompt. I would recommend the ITTT tefl course to anybody that is an esl or tefl teacher.


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