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Teaching Various Groups of Students: Young Learners vs. Adults - TEFL Blog
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Teaching Various Groups of Students: Young Learners vs. Adults
Not all Teaching English as a Foreign Language is equal. Different types of groups of learners include beginner vs. intermediate/advanced learners as well as monolingual classes vs multilingual classes. Another set of distinctive groups and perhaps the most contrary groups to be aware of are groups of young vs adult learners. In the following comparison, the many ways to ensure success with both types of groups will be discussed, as well as reasons the groups can be both challenging and rewarding.
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Group success
Needs Analysis
Anticipated Problems
Benefits of working with both groups
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The Different Challenges Between Teaching One-to-One Versus Teaching a Group - TEFL Blog
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Different Challenges Between Teaching One-to-One Versus Teaching a Group
Teaching in the field of ESL learning is a task that has plenty of challenges that can arise in the classroom. Whether students are young learners or adults, learning English as a second language requires a lot of time and dedication in and outside of the classroom. Teachers must put a lot of patience, care, and effort into their lessons for the sake of their students' success. They can find themselves teaching various types of classroom environments such as class sizes that are big or small, online or in-person, or multilingual or monolingual environments. These can affect the way a teacher chooses to run their class lessons. One of the biggest influences... [Read more]
Why Should We Teach Our Children Through Stories? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 04 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Why Should We Teach Our Children Through Stories?
As a teacher, we often find ourselves daunted with the task of capturing our students' interests and also equipping them for the future. Not only do we seek to train better students, but we also want to produce better citizens, workers, and future teachers. Teaching is still held the same purpose throughout all these years: bettering our future through the lives of our students.
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Teaching Methods
Benefits of Using Stories
Easy to Remember
Higher Level of Engagement
Relative
Storytelling
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Why I Did Volunteer Teaching in Nepal and You Should Too - TEFL Blog
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 Dan Sloat
Destinations Alumni Experiences
Why I Did Volunteer Teaching in Nepal and You Should Too
Volunteer teaching in Nepal is thoroughly rewarding! The need for engaging and enthusiastic teachers is so great and the positive impact you can make, even in a short period, is significant. Personally, I had a modest classroom of 16 students comprising a broad range of ages and competency. Those kiddos were quite a handful, but being their teacher was an incredible privilege. Their maturity was striking and yet, at the end of the day, they are still growing boys. They would get rowdy at times and often pulled pranks on each other. I loved their curiosity, their excitement for learning, and their playful spirits. Between lessons they would often draw pictures for me. I... [Read more]
Engaging Language Acquisition: The Importance of Reading for Pleasure - TEFL Blog
Tue, 21 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Engaging Language Acquisition: The Importance of Reading for Pleasure
Fears of declining reading rates have long plagued the United States. In 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, a report showing that reading rates for all demographic factors had declined. The report shed light on the potentially devastating effects that such a decline may have: this was not about mourning the loss of book sales, but about reading's impact on citizens' abilities to comprehend written material, improve their socioeconomic standing, and maintain a successful career.
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Research discovery
What is FVR
Other studies
Emotions
Possible risks
Voluntary reading
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Skills of the Top-Notch ESL Teacher - TEFL Blog
Fri, 24 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Skills of the Top-Notch ESL Teacher
Throughout the course of this TEFL course, many factors were discussed that can lead to potential success or failure within the ESL classroom. One factor that was constantly highlighted was the teacher's attitude and ability to build a good rapport with their students. Student engagement skills are vital for motivating students. Teachers in a classroom should develop a relationship with their students where the students can be comfortable in his or her classroom environment.
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Circumstances Supporting Rapport
Solid Subject Knowledge
Good Communication Abilities
Natural Flexibility
Interesting Teaching Materials
Creative Approach
Classroom Management
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The Methods of Developing Speaking Skills in Kindergarten Level Children - TEFL Blog
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Methods of Developing Speaking Skills in Kindergarten Level Children
Kindergarten students are those who are typically around the age of five. From birth till five, they would have developed their sensory and speaking abilities in their mother tongue with decent fluency. Children at this age have a strong potential to gain a lot of information. They would know about 1000-2000 words by this time. At this age, they are formally introduced to reading and writing skills, group work, independent thinking, and sharing practice. Teaching children at this age can be quite challenging and fun. Vocabulary is one of the strongest predictors when it comes to speaking capacity. So, by carefully incorporating study into play we can enrich... [Read more]
Top Tips for Teaching English to Young Learners - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Top Tips for Teaching English to Young Learners
02/18/2023
hi welcome Linda here from ITT back this
week with another live session I hope you're doing well thank you so much for joining me today I'm happy to see you if
you can see me and if you can hear me clearly if everything's working please just leave a high in the comment section
and uh maybe also let me know where you are right now where are you watching
from today what time is it there how are you doing let me know in the comments we are live on Facebook and on YouTube at
the same time and we also always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes so if you're listening to this as a
podcast thank you so much for the download and thank you so much for listening we really appreciate that
don't forget to like And subscribe um so... [Read more]
Teaching English in 2021: Setting Realistic TEFL Goals - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Teaching English in 2021: Setting Realistic TEFL Goals
01/07/2021
hello and welcome to another live session from itt my name is linda and yeah it's so good
to have you here if you can see me and if you can hear me please leave a comment that would be really
really helpful so that i know that everything is working well because i think sometimes
there is an issue with my mic i don't know what's wrong today um but oh okay somebody already said hi
or hey hey mansi thanks for joining that's awesome okay so i guess you guys can hear me you
can't see me so it's great perfect
hello hi tiana cool
so sometimes my mic kind of turns off i don't know why that is weird but at least i get a notification
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