Found Herself

  Sabrina took the 120-hour online TEFL course with tutor support and videos. In this TEFL review video, Sabrina tells us how she found the videos to be a very useful part of the course as she considers herself to be a visual learner and the videos made it easier for her to absorb the necessary information. Now she has completed the course, Sabrina plans to volunteer at a local ESL school to gain practical experience. 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. ...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Classroom Management is the skill of organizing and managing the class, having a friendly, relaxed manner and maintaining discipline. Keeping a classroom under control is often my biggest challenge mostly with the pupils. With the help of the ITTT 120-hours TESOL/TEFL course, I've finally found some classroom management strategies that actually worked and eventually turned things around. These strategies apply to all levels of learners and even to new and existing classes. I can now say things have got to the point where my classes are now under control, focused, on task, and learning effectively. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Cheng Y. Please note that this blog post might not...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Teaching, Just like any other profession, is one of the most proficient professions in the world. It requires special skills, maturity, empathy, passion and most of all knowledge and learning personality. Imparting knowledge is beautiful, but how to impart an individual is very important, since the person, must turn out to be productive and successful. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Joseph B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. My communicative personality and my knowledge in psychology and Linguistics make teaching a little more comprehensible. Over the years, I have taught various kinds of subject aside English Language...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas If you search for the word 'to teach' in the Cambridge Dictionary, the first response will be "to give someone knowledge or to train someone". Is it -really- all it is? This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Ayşe C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Nowadays, most knowledge can be found on the internet. Even little kids who cannot read and write can search and browse the internet and find the desired content thanks to voice-activated search engines, images, and memes. So, in this day and age, do we "actually" need teachers? How much do we need them, or to what extent? Or, shouldn’t we rethink the role of the teacher and form it all...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences This is my teaching experience so l will tell it in the form of a story. In 2011, l sat for my Advanced Level final exams and then applied for a post of temporary teacher at a school in an area called Date. Beginning of 2012, l traveled to Date from Harare to begin what l call a character building turmoil. I was an inexperienced 20-year-old girl who was about to take on a class that would be sitting for its final exam come to the end of that year, with half the class being my former primary school classmates and the other half not thinking much of me. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Trish A. M. So here l was, in a rural and remote school, teaching a class of forty students with no...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Teaching Ideas Hello everybody, I'm glad to see that some people have already joined me. My name is Liza, your ITTT TEFL friend and today we are going to talk about the most interesting topic from all of them I suppose. We are going to discuss online teaching and during this session I am going to share several ideas on how to enhance your online classes in 2021. I hope you enjoy it because it's something really cool to try and before we start let me quickly check if the equipment is working, if you see me clearly and if you hear me clearly please let me know in the comment section. Okay. So it’s nice to see you guys and thanks for joining. I see several comments but I'm not sure what they are as...  [Read more]

Federico Riva Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Hello guys, please let me know in the comment section that you can see me clearly and you can hear this video so that I know that my equipment works smoothly. I'll be very thankful for that. To start with my name is Liza and I’m an ITTT TEFL expert and an online English teacher and today we will talk about one of the most important things in TEFL teaching, online lesson planning. Well we will talk about lesson planning in general, but as I’m more specialized in online teaching I'll try to share my personal experience in planning online classes. Thanks for joining me, I hope that you are having a great time especially after your long winter holidays. Let me know where you are...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Hello everybody, nice to see you again. Let me know that you can see me clearly and hear me clearly. I'm glad that you are joining us, thanks for coming today. We're just about to start our live session. My name is Liza and I am an ITTT TEFL expert and an online ESL teacher. Nice to see you guys joining me, thanks a lot and just before we start just quickly let me tell you about ITTT. so our company is a TEFL course provider and we are actually presenting on various social networks right now. If you guys want to get updates on different TEFL content make sure you follow our social networks and keep updated regularly. Thanks for joining today's...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Teaching Ideas Today, we are talking about setting realistic goals, basically having a realistic timeline for how long it takes from actually taking a TEFL course to going on to teaching English either online or abroad. If your goal is to teach English in 2021, what do you need to do? What are the steps? Okay, let me add this little graphic here, so that's what I've prepared for you guys. Setting realistic goals for teaching English in 2021 and as always please leave your comments at any time. There's also going to be a Q&A section at the end of the session so there will be plenty of time to ask questions and for me to answer them. I am working this whole live situation by myself so I might...  [Read more]