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Elizaveta Pachina
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Classroom management means putting up all ways related to classroom organization to establish a great and effective learning environment effectively. Classroom management creates a set of expectations used in an organized classroom environment, it includes routines, rules, and consequences. It also paves a way for the teacher to engage students in learning. It is very important to effectively manage a classroom as it prepares and gets students to be engaged in learning as well as boasts learners’ confidence.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Phatsimo P. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
Below are a few ways that a teacher can... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
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Teaching English to beginners is a challenge for new and experienced ESL teachers. Although with proper planning, materials, getting the students engaged and motivated in the lessons can make teaching English to beginners fun and rewarding especially when your students start to get the hang of it. It’s a great feeling to see them move from having absolutely no knowledge of English to be able to speak basic English. A few things to think about. Talking a lot is just going to waste your time and leave you frustrated. Two keep your lessons fun with as much talk time as possible for the students, allowing them to practice what they are learning in a fun environment. Always praise your students, a student who thinks... [Read more]
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Anastasiya Akpinar
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It has become usual for students and teachers to communicate only via computer screens for the last year. All of us have faced a number of problems when studying or teaching online:
It took society around half a year to get used to a new teaching system. However, it took much more time for the teacher–student communication to get back to normal. Finally, both sides in front of the screen overcame the shock and started taking up online teaching/studying on a daily basis. So from now on, teachers can focus on being more productive inside and outside their online classrooms.
Working in modern circumstances, most teachers started to face the same problems:
And that’s where... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
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Abstraction is in essence, the formation of broader, and more difficult and subjective systems from inputs. It is a concept that can be applied to the four language skills: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. As an idea becomes more abstract and subjective, it requires more information and becomes more difficult to answer. Some of the easiest and least abstract pieces of language are simple Yes/No statements and questions. “Do you like ice-cream?” “Yes, I do.” “No, I don’t.” A more difficult question might be, “Who likes ice-cream?” More difficult still would be, “Why do you like ice-cream?” A simple, but by no means an exhaustive list of abstraction moving from simple to difficult... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Classroom management is a very important task because it makes the class run smoothly and effectively and enhances students' academic skills and competencies .it is the role of the teacher to inspire confidence in the students and should know when to be firm and when to be flexible. There are different techniques the teacher can use to manage the class in a good way:
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate HEDI L. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
To build confidence between the teacher and the students and to make sure they do understand what they are supposed to do and by using visual interest they can understand the meaning of the... [Read more]
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Jon ITTT
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We all probably know, that music has no language. It is kindly welcomed by all nations equally, as well as all races, ages and cultures. So how can music or songs help us to teach English and to do it more effectively?
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Alena A.
Music lets us go deeper into conscious that anything else, it is much more memorable, so the words and grammar structures may be remembered much faster. It also helps to relax and to feel happy, so using songs in the classroom is not only a good idea, but it is also an extremely necessary part of teaching and language acquisition.
Also read: 4 Tips on How to Teach English Using Music
Music has no language, as I have said before, but it... [Read more]
⏩ Can you make a living teaching English online? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
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Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Self-confidence is not an easy trait to gain, especially when we talk about teachers. Self-confidence is obvious and easy to observe from all people, whether students or other teachers. When the teacher has a lack or weakness in self-confidence, their students or their coworkers will see that during the explanation, when she/he talks in front of the students and answering some questions in the class.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Walaa S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
Self-confidence is also associated with creativity, whenever the teacher is confident of himself/herself then, he/she will show the creative aspect of... [Read more]
⏩ How do online English teachers make money? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
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Anastasiya Akpinar
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The Covid-19 pandemic began all of sudden and covered the world with silent panic and frustration. Quarantine rules provided by governments influenced all social spheres of life, including education. Schools were closed, and the teaching process was stopped. A solution was quickly found: universities, schools, and even pre-schools started giving lessons online. Most of them use the same application for online studying – ZOOM.
Why, among so many other video-communication applications, do most of us choose Zoom for teaching?
Let's have a quick summary of the tool.
The Zoom application was designed for online business meetings and... [Read more]
⏩ How much do TEFL teachers get paid? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
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Elizaveta Pachina
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This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Daisy C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
One problem facing many Japanese students learning English is differentiating between countable and uncountable nouns. In the Japanese language, the same word is often used for ‘much’ and ‘many’. In English, ‘much’ is used to describe countable nouns, and ‘many’ is used to describe uncountable nouns.
A problem facing many EFL learners, especially Japanese learners, is idioms. The English language has thousands of idioms, which are used in everyday life. These are difficult for the learner to understand the meaning of, and to remember how... [Read more]
⏩ How much is it to do a TEFL course? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
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Elizaveta Pachina
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When teaching students most of the time we mainly focus on just teaching them the language and having them pass some tests and that is how we measure if they have learned well or not. In reality, it is a bit different though. Knowing how to read, speak or write a language does not necessarily translate to the student excelling in the language. There is another often ignored factor called confidence. Confidence is necessary for success in many parts of life and it is no different when learning. One of the greatest gifts we can give our students is to instill in them a strong sense of confidence. In doing this, we enable them to be higher achievers.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Moses K.... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Ever have someone try to establish rapport with you? When we think about it carefully, the answer is affirmative. You need to build rapport with people to make friends. To do business with establishing rapport, as well as sales. Establishing rapport makes things much easier than you don’t. Imagine meeting someone for the first time and you are not interested in him. What is your next move?Obviously you will end the conversation with him? Let us focus on the importance of building rapport in class.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Jiajia Z. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
In my point of view, the good relationship... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
This essay discusses the various ways in which teachers can more effectively manage their classroom. Understanding these methods and having them as a toolkit for everyday lessons can help to minimize student distractions, increase motivation and concentration and ultimately allow the students to learn as much as possible. I will briefly discuss the 9 key considerations below.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Phoebe C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
Looking for your students in the eye has many benefits, such as maintaining discipline, encouraging contributions and illustrating that they are all involved in the lesson. Be... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Coming into this, course I had a basic understanding of how a teacher prepares for and teaches a class. I had always thought it was easy for a teacher to teach; teacher walks in, teaches and goes home but I didn't know how much work would have to be put into a lesson to make the best out of it, and this is where I learned the best thing during my TEFL/TESOL course.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Jason F. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
The best thing that I learned was understanding how to do an ESA lesson. I never knew beforehand that there was a way to breakdown a lesson and get as much out of it as possible. Knowing... [Read more]
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Mark Crocker
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It was the last day of Japanese class and my teacher’s last day of teaching at our school. We were all standing up getting ready to bow him one last time. It was dead quiet but I could still hear sniffles around me and felt the sadness of the moment. I never thought I would care so much about a teacher leaving. To this day, the words and wisdom my Japanese teacher taught me still ring in my head. Flash forward to a few years ago, I went to Japan for the first time, after a hiatus of not studying Japanese, but amazingly I still had all the skills my teacher had taught me in high school. How did this person have such an impact on me? The answer I have come to realize is that because he truly cared about me becoming... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Engage, study and activate method was put forward by Jeremy Harmer. This method provides flexibility to the teacher inside the classroom.
Teachers can do various activities to make the classroom more comfortable and enjoyable for the students and to learn in a much better way. It is much more appropriate for the new teachers or trainee teachers to apply in the classroom. All the lessons comprise of the engage, study and activate stages.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Priyanka Y. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
Engage stage is the first sequence in the lesson in which the teacher will try to arouse the student's interests.... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Let’s remember the latest class you’ve had. What were you doing? Were you explaining a new rule? Were you answering your students’ questions? Were you telling a story from your life? Weren’t you talking too much? Let’s discuss how to decrease teacher speaking time (TST) and increase student speaking time (SST).
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate DALER R. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
According to the communicative approach, TST shouldn’t be greater than SST, moreover, it must be much less than the last one. Why? There are several reasons. First of all, we have to mention that the more a teacher talks the less... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
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This essay displays my own experience as well as information from other (internet) resources. I work as an English teacher in Chile, mainly teaching professionals in the mining industry.
Only 3 to 5 percent of the population in Chile speaks proficient English. The Ministry of Education created a plan to upscale the level of English and the percentage of English speakers in the country. They welcome teachers from abroad.
Chile is a Spanish speaking country. Spanish speakers have a certain advantage when it comes to learning English, like the use of cognates. But they also have specific difficulties that need attention while learning English.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Yvette O. Please... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
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Having undergone a process of teaching and based on my knowledge and experience, today I can give a sense of an area or topic that I think of any of you. I agree with the same opinion.
"Teaching vocabulary" is the topic I am talking about today. As a teacher, I have failed in teaching vocabulary for students, complex because I do not have enough knowledge or knowledge, my students have Remembering a word that day, I was very sad and thinking about my teaching method. I asked myself. What do students need to learn when learning vocabulary?
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Thuy D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
I thought about... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
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Motivation has proven to be one of the major challenges teachers face in the classroom, where he/she must, however, engage the students. No matter how you see it, a teacher's personality matters so much in the classroom. Now the question is, how will a teacher improve his student's motivation in the classroom.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Nwanekezie Adaeze E. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
motivation relates to personality, interpretation, and ethics. That is to say that we do not analyze or see things the same way the, do not withdraw the same lessons, do not transform ourselves in contact with it in the same way. That's... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Praises are like honey when you are on the receiving end you feel “sweet” or great about yourself. Imagine how your students feel when they are being praised for a job well done. They feel the same way too. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, praise is defined as, “expressing admiration or approval of achievements of a person.” Praise works hand in hand with motivation. If you praise your students when they try to make an effort or when they do extremely well, it will go a far way in boosting their self-confidence and motivate them to want to learn. In doing so, this will help to increase their participation in class, which in turn would be a recipe for success.
This post was written by our... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Discipline often comes to the mind at the mention of classroom management, but the crucial component is much more.Classroom management creates a set of expectations used in an organized classroom environment. This will include routines, rules, and consequences. Effective classroom management paves the way for the teacher to engage the students in learning. Classroom management is important because it allows learning to flow effectively some important elements can be considered such as Effective teaching, Efficient use of time, fewer behavior problems, community building and many other elements when a class is managed well by the teacher. Just to elaborate more on the elements mentioned as to why classroom... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
There are many views about learning English grammar. Many people think that learning English grammar is not important and unnecessary. This idea is not wrong because it depends on the purpose of your English learning.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate May T. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
For middle and high school students, learning English grammar is very important because it accounts for the highest score in the English test sections.
Confirming that, to learn English well, you need to start from learning and consolidating English grammar. Thereby, we can see that English grammar is not a prerequisite and the most important... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Handling a large classroom is a task that many teachers must face eventually, so it is important to be able to know how to effectively instruct a class that is a size above average. A teacher must work on his/her performance and work on how to make lessons constructive with a big crowd in mind. Without these two objectives done successfully, the teacher risks being misunderstood and the students won’t be learning adequately.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Cris K.
A teacher’s ability to perform is critical. Eye contact, voice, and gestures are all needed to get a large class involved. Eye contact can go a long way, reaching all corners and parts of a classroom to make sure pupils... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Is it essential to do a lesson plan before a class? The answer is "YES." So why is it so important? And how can it help us with our English teaching? Outlined below is my analysis of why TEFL lesson planning is so important.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Qi Q. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
In the first instance, TEFL lesson planning can help us set up the subject to be taught and the aim of each class, allowing us to follow our instructions. We teach the students about a grammar point, new vocabulary, or other parts of speech in each class. What you expect the students to achieve by... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Teaching English in China has become very popular for ESL teachers and many are looking for job opportunities in China. Finding a teaching job in China isn’t too hard but working with Chinese students can be quite challenging.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate VIKTORIIA H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
Chinese grammar is very different from English and many Chinese students try to copy the grammar rules of their native language and apply them to English. As a result, they form awkward sentences that are difficult to understand. They struggle to use gerunds and articles as these parts of speech do not exist in Mandarin.... [Read more]
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Elizaveta Pachina
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Teaching is itself a challenging task when it comes to teaching a beginner student. If the student is an adult or young the challenge might be there. There are means and methods of overcoming such challenges for both the teacher and the student.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Sonal L. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
The teacher must first prepare an analysis test for the student to know the level of his/her understanding. If he is a beginner, elementary, intermediate, advanced. But as in our case if its beginner then the teacher needs to plan the lesson as well accordingly.
Understanding the behavior of a student is also... [Read more]
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