Why Is It Important To Be A Teacher

  If you decide to complete your TESOL certification course online you don’t need to worry that you are compromising on the theory of ESL teaching as our courses cover all of the most vital subjects you will need to be familiar with. The 120-hour TESOL course is our most popular online course option and it includes 20 in-depth units that walk you through all the main subjects that are necessary if you want to enter the classroom on your first day feeling confident in your teaching knowledge. A large part of the materials look into English grammar subjects and how you can teach them effectively. Within this part of the course you will study topics such as the tense system, conditionals, modals, passive voice and much more. Initially you might feel a little wary of these subjects,...  [Read more]

  Lesson planning is an important part of being a teacher. While experienced teachers may appear to not require a plan it is only because they have probably taught a lesson so many times that the majority of their plan is in their head. They will still have a good idea of how they want and expect the lesson to proceed. Inexperienced teachers will need the structure a good lesson plan provides. A good plan acts as a guide to your planning. It helps a teacher consider the direction of the lesson and possible pitfalls and diversions. It also helps a teacher keep on track during the lesson but should not be so restrictive that it prevents flexibility in class. A lesson plan also serves as a record of what you have taught before enabling you to easily see what to review at later dates...  [Read more]

In order to compare our range of TESOL courses with other qualifications we have developed our course-level framework which runs from level 3 to level 7. On this scale most employers will expect their job applicants to have completed a level 4 course as this includes at least 100 hours of course study. However, if you want to start your teaching journey further up the ladder, a level 5 course would put you in a level of certification that is above the average for TESOL qualified teachers worldwide. Unfortunately, there is no one single framework that represents the different levels of qualifications available within the world of ESL teaching. At ITTT we have developed our course-level framework using the same basic criteria as most other countries or organizations, i.e, what type of...  [Read more]

  So, the document itself needs to contain some general information about the class, for example the name of the teacher, the date and time of the lesson, what level of class is being taught and in what room, how many students are we expecting, this is important, when we've got things like photocopying and materials to do, what is the context of the lesson, in other words, what is the lesson actually about, what vocabulary or grammar point is this lesson covering and sometimes it's also useful to write out what the focus of the lesson is. So, in effect, the context of the lesson is telling us the grammar point, for example, that might be the present continuous tense, whereas the focus is telling us how we're going to go about teaching it. Another example to illustrate this: Let's...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Russia? Check out our opportunities in this beautiful US state, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| This unit reminded me of my time at school and how my teachers interacted with us as a class. Looking back I had an English teacher who spoke in such a mono-tone voice that we as students would quite This unit is useful in understanding the best, or at least the most...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Japan? Are you interested in teaching English in Takaoka, Japan? Check out our opportunities in Takaoka, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! I have read and learned in unit 3 a great deal about classroom management. How seating situation is very important. How the different seating situations can give different results, both pros and cons....  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word categorical. This word is used as an adjective and means explicit and direct. It comes from the Greek word kat?goria meaning ‘statement’. 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. This unit was about how to teach the receptive skills, which are reading and listenin. An integrated lesson will include both the receptive skills and also both of the productive skills (writing and speaking), but...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Arzamas, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Arzamas, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit focuses on pronunciation and phonology in the classroom and different tactics we can use in our lesson plans. The lesson proves that an effective teacher will want to focus on pronunciation,...  [Read more]

  The idiom "golden opportunity" refers to a chance that is likely to be rewarding and successful, for example: The low price for the house is a golden opportunity we must not waste. The price for the house is very cheap at the moment, so we should buy it before the price increases again. 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. As an English teacher, obviously one's voice and the language one uses is of vital importance to the clas. Teachers of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in France? Are you interested in teaching English in Angers, France? Check out our opportunities in Angers, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! For a new teacher or building rapport is important to find out the level of each student level is. Some new classes have already established rapport within the group and others new classes, there is no...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuanjiang, China? Check out our opportunities in Yuanjiang, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! It is difficult to talk about the eyes of the other person but it is very important to face the eyes. By facing each other's eyes, students can see that they are participating in the class. And the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Yongan, China? Check out our opportunities in Yongan, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! There are talking about the relationship between teacher and student. The way of communication between teachers and students depends on the culture and environment of the country. Students also need to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Benin? Are you interested in teaching English in Cotonou, Benin? Check out our opportunities in Cotonou, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! There are four basic skills in any language: reading and listening (receptive skills) and speaking and writing (productive skills)and all are equally important. We read and listen for two reasons or we...  [Read more]

During our own school days we probably all encountered more than one teacher who didn’t appear to be in the right job. Some might have been keen to dish out heavy punishments for minor offenses, some were probably extremely dull and uninteresting, while others simply failed to listen to the feedback of their students. Despite these negative influences, most of us will also have better memories of teachers who actually had a positive impact on our learning. So what actually made these teachers stand out? We think there are several skills and traits that can be combined to ensure a teacher is remembered for positive and not negative reasons. If you can manage to develop most if not all of these yourself, you should find your future students will remember you as a great ESL teacher....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Germany? Are you interested in teaching English in Erfurt, Germany? Check out our opportunities in Erfurt, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! It is possible to be a bad teacher. If one does not possess certain characteristics, he may not be a good teacher. The teacher has to want to teach, know the material well, connect with the students in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in India? Are you interested in teaching English in India? Check out our opportunities in this beautiful US state, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Unit 19 covers various aspects of the possible types of classes you may teach in your career as an ESL instructor. The unit begins by giving a list of 5 different types of beginner learners ranging fr Unit 20 is especially short and covers common problem situations which a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Japan? Are you interested in teaching English in Hino, Japan? Check out our opportunities in Hino, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In teaching any new foreign language it is very important, how the teacher explains the pronunciation regarding to the stress, rhythm and intonation of the speech. Stress highlights the "strong" part of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Algeria? Are you interested in teaching English in Saida, Algeria? Check out our opportunities in Saida, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! It is important to be able to engage the students and make them comfortable in the classroom. I noticed that students are often not confident in speaking a new language, so being encouraging and...  [Read more]

  And now it's time to have a look at our first grammar unit. Grammar in its widest sense is the structure of a language. We as speakers of the language can structure our language without a problem. However, as teachers of the language we need to be able to better analyze the grammar and the grammar that exists within statements that we make. These basic parts of grammar are called parts of speech. Each part of speech has a certain function within a sentence. Our example sentence here is "My older brother lives in Tokyo." Each one of these words is a certain part of speech, which we'll have a look at in just a minute but let's just think about the words within this particular sentence. We have ?my?, indicating whose brother it is, we have "older", indicating which brother it is....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Belarus? Are you interested in teaching English in Minsk, Belarus? Check out our opportunities in Minsk, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Receptive skills we learned in this lesson are extremely important in learning a language. Reading and listening are two important factors to better understand the English language written as well as...  [Read more]