TEFL Edgewater Acres Delaware

The efl Course with ITTT has taught me so many things. The course generally started out with the basics, such as my role as a “teacher” and also defined the types of “Learners” that I might soon be encountering. Then I learned about the basic parts of speech as well as the theories, methods and techniques in education. The basics are the foundations of the educational process. This cements the further bits of knowledge into the general whole. Learning the foundations emphasizes how I should take on my role as a teacher and understand how to deal with the process of teaching and that of the learning of my future students. With these basic foundations, I would be able to keep in mind all the time how to organize properly my lessons based on the learning needs of my students using the teaching methods that have been supported by expert theories. After the basics, I tackled the grueling units on grammar (present, past and future tenses) alternating with theoretical know-how's on communicating with students and how to teach a new language as well as lesson planning. These, I believe, would be the second biggest chunk of knowledge that I learned from this course that has a very big weight on the teaching content. Not only did I had to relearn the grammar rules, I was also able to acquire techniques on how to present these to my future class. Teaching a new language is another level of teaching as opposed to teaching science or art. While science and art are universal in some ways, language, in a way, is regional. As I am here in france, where people speak french, there are some technicalities about teaching french people a new language, such as english. Then, there was a teaching demo that I had to observe on the DVD and further teaching techniques were taught: receptive skills, productive skills and pronunciation and phonetics. Furthermore, the different teaching aids and materials were discussed, including evaluation and testing, equipment used, interspersed with a few more grammar lessons on conditionals, reported speech, modals, phrasal verbs and passives. These units would be the third big chunk of my tefl course where I was able to witness a class, albeit in DVD, where the teaching techniques come into play. It was a very good observation of what is good or bad techniques in teaching. I plan to improve myself more on this third chunk especially with regards to pronunciation and phonetics as this is the most important aspect that I believe my future french students need. They may learn the grammar basics in their school, but the pronunciation must be reinforced in private or group tutorials that will hopefully soon be taught by me. Finally, the last two topics were on teaching special groups and troubleshooting. These last two topics are very important reminders of what type of students I would soon be encountering in class. As I have been able to find a part-time work as an english teacher for children here in france, these units have been very helpful with me in giving me ideas on how to deal with the children and also with their parents. Parents tend to be very anxious about their children learning english words. Some parents could speak some english, while others do not. If it is possible, it is very helpful for parents to learn alongside with their children so that they could teach each other at home and reinforce the learning of the week. That is why, I plan to create handouts every meeting and spend the last 5 minutes of the class with parents giving them a briefing of what we just did in class with their children, so that they could reinforce the lessons and help remind the child about the lessons.