Teach English in Rosyth - TEFL Courses

Above all, we should know what tefl courses are. They are courses for those native english speakers or those who have a high proficiency of english and can speak english fluently. If the participate is not good at english, this course should not be taken. And it is clear that people take these courses to get certificate to teach english abroad, not in an english-speaking country, for it is a teach-english-as-a-foreign-language course. And then, there is no doubt that there are so many kinds of tefl courses online or onsite, the participants should be very careful before deciding to choose. But in fact, both the online courses and the onsite courses of tefl are geared to achieve the similar goal in two very different ways: to provide the participants with the courses to be a qualified and effective english language teacher abroad teaching foreigners . In the onsite courses of tefl, the participants will study in a specific school full time for at least 4 weeks, immersed in a good english environment and learning all the relevant contents by excellent and professional teachers. What's more, they will have a chance to teach actual students of english, as part of the course with at least 6 observed teaching practice sessions. In this way, the participants can learn the skills o f teaching in a very practical way. The disadvantages of this learning are that you have to spend at least 4 weeks away from your work and your families and it will cost you more money. There are many schools offering this kind of courses, and for ITTT, the class course locations are in more than 20 countries. For each continent where english teachers are high demanded, there is at least one location and in some countries, there are more than 1, like china, india. It is a good idea that the participants study in the location where they want to work in the future, for they will learn more about these country or this city. online courses of tefl are a kind of long distance learning by internet designed for those people who have no time to go to the tefl school for the specific study. The content is similar but it is taught in a different way. Through e-mail, video and other medium, the teachers want to make the courses as close as possible to the original course. There is a tutor for the online study, who will read your worksheet and give you help and assess your work on the unit by unit pace. The online courses of tefl have different time requirement, but the international standard certificate asks for at least 100 hours of study. The student can adapt the study to their own pace, which is very convenient to those people who have to work and only can study in their free time. But usually they will give you a maximum time for you to finish the course. Some online courses require the students are on line all the time, but sometimes it's inconvenient because of the technical problems, so there are also online certificate in which all the teaching materials are sent through e-mail and the student's worksheets are sent back in this same way too. It's more flexible. Some online courses have a test, but some do not have a test. Instead , the tutor will grade the students' worksheet unit by unit. And in the end, they will give a grade for the certificate. Compared to the onsite courses, online courses are cheaper (sometimes you can get a special offer)and flexible in time, but they lack practical teaching experience. There are also many online courses of tefl and I think the courses provided by ITTT are excellent.