TEFL Centerville Michigan

Some of what I have gained from this course has little to do with teaching english in terms of how I will use it. As a teacher of other subjects, like spanish, for example, I will be able to use some of the same principles I have been learning here. The ESA model was difficult for me to understand at first. After having prepared numerous lesson plans and activities following this model, I think I have learned to “think” more along the line of ESA. Grammar-wise, I have learned where a few of my weak points lie. I have been provided some solid tools for explaining the grammar to students. It's not always easy to make the grammar for english appear patterned, consistent, etc., as if it followed any sort of rules, because english is such a diverse language, having received contributions from so many other languages. For this reason, it is frequently difficult to explain the grammar to students other than to say some lame- or trite-sounding thing like “That's just the way it is. Memorize it.” Some of the things presented in this course have helped me to understand a better way of explaining the concepts, and this will translate to students being able to understand them more easily. In the area of teaching, most of what the course presented was simply a review for me. A good review, of course, but I have had a lot of experience with teaching languages, and am a polyglot myself, which helps a lot. For the average American with no background in teaching english, this course would likely prove extremely helpful to their understanding of how to teach the language. As a teacher, I feel it has been a helpful course for me personally, and would definitely recommend it to others. In the long term, I plan to use my tefl skills in teaching english again in Southeast Asia. Though I am not currently living abroad in that region, I do hope to return soon and will feel more comfortable having had this extra training in the field.