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3 Apps for Digital ESL Lesson Plans - TEFL Blog
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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3 Apps for Digital ESL Lesson Plans
Being an ESL teacher is not an easy task, especially if you work as a freelancer TEFL teacher online. In this case, you have to be even more organized to provide better services to your students. This blog post offers you 3 apps for digital ESL lesson plans that will save you a lot of time.
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Why do you need a digital lesson planner?
Evernote
Some more essential features will work accurately for your digital ESL lesson plans:
Pricing
Trello
Pricing
Notion
Pricing
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3 Online ESL Teaching Ideas You Must Try Before 2021 - TEFL Blog
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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3 Online ESL Teaching Ideas You Must Try Before 2021
This year has been challenging for all educators due to quarantine and long-term distance learning. However, it is vital to work on online teaching skills to enhance your students' online ESL experience.
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1. Interact With Your Students through an Online Board
What other tools can be useful for an online ESL teaching session?
Why should you try an online board?
2. Gamify Your Online Classes
That's how to do it:
How can you and your online ESL students benefit from games in the lessons?
3. Create a Feedback Template
How can you organize this part of your job?
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3 Best Tools to Gamify Your Online Lessons - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
3 Best Tools to Gamify Your Online Lessons
12/14/2021
hi again everyone this is another live
stream session by itt and my name is
lisa i am happy to welcome you to this
livestream session
and today we're gonna discuss um
three interesting tools you might
utilize to make your lessons
uh interactive and engaging because
these uh things will help you to gamify
to gamify your classes so in my previous
live stream i actually shared uh several
trends uh like 10
uh trends for
2022 that you have to
think about to implement in your
online classes
and today i will
dive into this idea of gamifying
lessons and share several tools that you
might actually use to
help your students uh get excited and
engaged into your content
and i hope that you will love these
ideas
uh these are going to be actually
um... [Read more]
Gamification in ESL Teaching: Tools, Platforms, and Benefits - TEFL Blog
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 Federico Riva
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Gamification in ESL Teaching: Tools, Platforms, and Benefits
In the dynamic landscape of education, the infusion of game-like elements into traditional teaching methods has emerged as a powerful tool for language instructors. Gamification, an innovative approach that adapts gaming features to serve educational functions, is reshaping the way English as a Second Language (ESL) is taught. Explore how gamification websites are transforming the pedagogical experience for online teachers and students, offering a spectrum of interactive tools and resources. Let's delve into two remarkable platforms, Edvibe and Wordwall, each revolutionizing language education in its unique way.
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Top 3 Tools For Creating Interactive EFL Activities - TEFL Blog
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Top 3 Tools For Creating Interactive EFL Activities
The online mode of teaching has become a primary one in the COVID-19 era. For many teachers, remote work is not easy especially due to a different approach to creating materials.
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1. Google Slides
2. LearningApps
3. WordWall
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If you still struggle with games and activities for your activate phase of the lesson, take a look at the following three tools that can help you to versatile your Zoom classes and make your students super happy!
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Online ESL Game Design Workshop for Teachers - TEFL Blog
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 Federico Riva
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Online ESL Game Design Workshop for Teachers
Hello everybody and welcome to the ITTT weekly live stream. It's Liza here and I'm super excited that this stream happens every week and we can talk about teaching and TEFL and stuff like that. So welcome and thank you for joining me.
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Today, we are going to talk about online ESL game design. Last week I started showing you the game I was designing, it was Monopoly. Today I'm going to show you the outcome of the game and also tell you a little bit more about online game design.
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How to Use Videos in Online ESL Lessons
Elizaveta Pachina
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In this blog post, our TEFL experts talks about the reasons and ways to use videos in online ESL lessons. If you want to spice up your online classes, read this article and try these exciting ideas!
Linguistics for ESL Teachers
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How can being a linguist help you when teaching English as a foreign language? This blog post will explore this topic.
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Online ESL Game Design Workshop For Teachers - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Online ESL Game Design Workshop for Teachers
Hello everybody and welcome to the ITTT weekly live stream. It's Liza here and I'm super excited that this stream happens every week and we can talk about teaching and TEFL and stuff like that. So welcome and thank you for joining me.
Today, we are going to talk about online ESL game design. Last week I started showing you the game I was designing, it was Monopoly. Today I'm going to show you the outcome of the game and also tell you a little bit more about online game design.
Thanks a lot for letting me know that you are watching and right now please let me know at what stage of your ESL career you are at. As for me, I'm an online ESL teacher currently. I used to teach in a real classroom several years ago, but then I decided to... [Read more]
Empowering ESL Educators: A Guide to Free Teaching Tools - TEFL Blog
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 Federico Riva
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Empowering ESL Educators: A Guide to Free Teaching Tools
Navigating the realm of ESL teaching is both rewarding and challenging. To equip educators with versatile and effective resources, a myriad of free tools has emerged, revolutionizing the way English as a Second Language (ESL) is taught. These tools not only streamline lesson planning but also enrich classroom engagement and student learning experiences. In this comprehensive guide, we delve into an array of invaluable free resources tailored specifically for ESL teachers, empowering them to craft dynamic and impactful lessons that resonate with diverse learners.
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Miro
Google Docs
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WeTransfer
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7 Easy Ways to Make Money Online as an English Teacher
Elizaveta Pachina
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This blog post was written by an ITTT TEFL expert who shares 7 ideas on how to make money online as an English teacher. Online EFL market is boosting this year due to the global quarantine, thus, there are new ways to implement your skills and get profit sharing your personal EFL teaching experience.
3 Apps for Digital ESL Lesson Plans
Elizaveta Pachina
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In this blog post, our TEFL expert shares 3 useful digital apps for ESL lesson plans. You will learn about Evernotes, Trello, and Notion, a 2020 favorite planning app. Create your own system... [Read more]
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Liza is a translator, freelancer and ESL teacher from Russia. She had been teaching in a Chinese bilingual school for more than two years and recently moved to Thiland to run her blog about teaching and freelance job.
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5 ESL Classroom Halloween Decor Ideas | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
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In this blog post, our TEFL experts share five Halloween decor ideas for your ESL classroom. Get inspired and create incredible atmosphere of this fun holiday.
7 Easy Ways to Make Money Online as an English Teacher | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
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The Basics of Planning and Reviewing a Lesson - TEFL Blog
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Basics of Planning and Reviewing a Lesson
The lesson plan functions as a roadmap for the teacher, providing an organized framework for the planning, preparation, and execution of the lesson and serving as a record of what has been completed. It should not be a detailed script, but rather a guide that allows for flexibility and adaptation in the classroom. The plan is a living document that may continue to be refined and enhanced after execution, incorporating lessons learned.
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Basic Class Identification
Learner Objectives
Personal Aim
Language Point
Anticipated Problems and Solutions
Procedure Information
Lesson Review
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Lesson Planning: What is it and Why is it Necessary? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 Mark Crocker
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Lesson Planning: What is it and Why is it Necessary?
Planning, planning, planning! Many things in life need to be properly planned, be it a summer holiday or a work presentation. It can be a plan that is formally written down or it can be a plan that you simply keep in your mind. Having some kind of structure in place before doing activities will help put you at ease because you know what to do next and what to expect. Planning will also make you more productive as there will be no 'guessing' time, you will know what to do and when to do it. Taking the time to plan your lessons will almost certainly save you time in the long run.
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What is a Lesson Plan?
Constructing a Lesson Plan
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Inspiration to Create Teaching Materials - TEFL Blog
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Inspiration to Create Teaching Materials
Teaching is a creative enterprise and creating your materials is very satisfying. There are many positive reasons for a teacher to create their materials. Purposely created materials are inexpensive, tailored to specific grammar and language topics, adaptable for different language levels, specific expansions on the course resources, culturally sensitive and correct. From my perspective, among the most important reasons for creating your materials are that it adds a personal touch to your class, and it enables you to have a sense of ownership in the curriculum.
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Topics to discuss
Online resources
Printed materials
Second-hand materials
Life-learning
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Top 10 Mistakes of an Online English Teacher - TEFL Blog
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Top 10 Mistakes of an Online English Teacher
Ever since online English teaching became a common means of delivering lessons, every online English teacher must strive for excellence to guarantee their students' best learning experience.
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1. Imbalanced Lesson Planning
2. Lack of Equipment
3. Poor Lesson Design
4. Inappropriate Teaching Content
Lack of Interaction and Personalized Approach
Increased Teacher Talking Time
Insufficient Lesson Flow
Distractors
Not Enough Feedback
Miscommunication With Students and Parents
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8 Effective Reward Systems for ESL Learners in an Online Classroom
Anna Domiczek
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Reward systems can be a very powerful tool for teachers in an online environment. Having a reward system for your students is essential because it encourages even the more shy and reserved young learners to participate in their virtual English lessons.
Top 6+ Tips to Design Effective Lessons for Your Online Classes
Pritam Nagrale
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How to design effective lessons for an online class? Is it that easy? I will try and answer both these questions in this article while providing six topmost tips that might help you create superb and engaging lessons for your online classes.
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5 ESL Classroom Halloween Decor Ideas
Elizaveta Pachina
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In this blog post, our TEFL experts share five Halloween decor ideas for your ESL classroom. Get inspired and create incredible atmosphere of this fun holiday.
6 Great Ideas for Developing Vocabulary in English Learners
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Exposure to a language is of prime importance if one intends to excel in it. Like every language, English needs to be practiced in all its integrated skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Vocabulary has always been among a key component of language learning that teachers rely on. The following are 6 great ideas for developing vocabulary in English... [Read more]
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Where to teach English Online: Best Websites to Teach on for Both Native and Non-Native Speakers
Federico Riva
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In this live session, Liza will tell about several platforms to teach on as a native or non-native TEFL teacher.
8 Effective Reward Systems for ESL Learners in an Online Classroom
Anna Domiczek
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Reward systems can be a very powerful tool for teachers in an online environment. Having a reward system for your students is essential because it encourages even the more shy and reserved young learners to participate in their virtual English lessons.
How to Work in China as a Non-Native English Teacher After the Pandemic
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The Most Effective Teaching Methodologies for Online ESL Teaching Mode - TEFL Blog
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Most Effective Teaching Methodologies for Online ESL Teaching Mode
For the last two years, I have worked as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) at a Japanese high school. Along with my teaching job, I have volunteered at a weekly English conversation class, where I teach English to both children and adults. Next year, I plan to transition out of my ALT job and into private ESL teaching. It is most likely that I will do most of my teaching online, where I will be one-on-one with a student.
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Teaching Methodologies
ALT
Lesson Stages
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TEFL Q&A: Online ESL Teaching - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL Q&A: Online ESL Teaching
06/25/2021
hey guys welcome to the itty weekly live stream
uh my name is lisa and i'm super glad to welcome you uh today uh so while i'm waiting for
some more people to join us uh let me introduce uh today's topic
uh so today's live stream is going to be pretty short but concise because i'm going to focus
just on one specific point which is online esl teaching
uh and if you guys have any questions related to this problem feel free to comment uh
feel free to uh use the comment section uh to send your questions or maybe concerns
um and uh as for myself i am actually going to address uh top five
um questions i've been asked recently on the point of online english
teaching um so this is probably the outline of today's session if you
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Interactive Whiteboard in a Young Learner's ESL Class - TEFL Blog
Wed, 10 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Interactive Whiteboard in a Young Learner's ESL Class
Interactive whiteboards have been around since the turn of the millennium. They have been implemented and studied in multiple ESL classrooms, primary schools, and language centers in order to find the best practices. The American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) acknowledges the importance of using technology, such as the interactive whiteboard, to support and enhance classroom-based instructions (Segni & Davidson, 2019). In order for the interactive whiteboard to be used effectively to take advantage of learning opportunities and support children's learning, it is important to use it skillfully in education.
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Your First Online English Lesson: 5 Main Things to Include - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Your First Online English Lesson: 5 Main Things to Include
08/26/2021
hey guys welcome to a new itt's live stream uh and my name is lisa uh if you
don't know me yet uh i'm a tefl and t soul expert at itt and i also teach
english online as a non-native esl teacher so i'm super glad to welcome you
um at today's session and it's going to be devoted to um the very first online
esl class um i hope yeah my name is lisa not linda
but it's okay hi uh mikey i hope i pronounce your name correctly
so uh today's session is going to be devoted to everything related to the
very first uh lesson with your um online students
so um i'm going to share five uh five main points uh you have to remember
before planning your very first lesson um so hopefully it's going to be useful
i believe that if you are a... [Read more]
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Live TEFL Talk: How to teach English in Asia | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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Are you interested in teaching English in Asia? TEFL expert Linda from ITTT shares the ultimate guide to teaching English as a foreign language in one of the most intriguing regions of the world!
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Top Strategies for Effective Teaching of Grammar - TEFL Blog
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Top Strategies for Effective Teaching of Grammar
Type in "teaching grammar effectively" into Google and the reader will be confronted with pages and pages of advice/frameworks/theories on how to effectively teach grammar.
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8 Do's and Dont's for Effective Grammar Instruction
8 things to avoid
Alternative Approach
Theory
Explanations
Examples
Exercises
Supplementing the coursebook
Carry-over
7 tips for effective grammar instruction
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Utilizing New Technology in an ESL Setting to Limit Smartphone Use - TEFL Blog
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Utilizing New Technology in an ESL Setting to Limit Smartphone Use
Depending on which part of the world you are in, more often than not, you will find that majority of your learners, especially the younger ones, tend to be very tech-savvy nowadays. This is especially true in a Prep-Year setting in Saudi Arabia, where I'm currently based. When I speak about a Prep-Year setting, I am referring to young adults, between the ages of 18-20 who have just finished high school and must complete a year of English language studies to begin their major.
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Teaching such learners brings about several challenges.
So, we know the problem and we know the restrictions. What can we do?
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How to Engage Young ESL Learners in an Online Classroom - TEFL Blog
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 Anna Domiczek
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How to Engage Young ESL Learners in an Online Classroom
Shifting from a traditional classroom to a virtual setting can be daunting for teachers who do not have experience teaching online. This is especially the case if one has to keep young students engaged and motivated. What are the tricks to instill excitement and interest in preschoolers who do not have the intrinsic motivation to perform to achieve good grades? Their parents' primary desire is for them to speak like the native and one day go off to an internationally renowned US university or work for a foreign company. Young students are motivated by something else- a desire to have fun in a welcoming environment.
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Our Complete Guide to Teaching English Online - TEFL Blog
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 Federico Riva
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Our Complete Guide to Teaching English Online
As we talk about teaching English online (TEO), let's first look at some of the basics of teaching English in this way. So, what does TEO generally involve?
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The three main things you need to teach English online are:
Additional requirements for some companies:
The two main types of online teaching.
1. Online platforms
3. Fully Independent online teaching
The Pros and Cons of Teaching Enlgish online
The pros
The cons
1. How much can you earn teaching English online?
2. Which platforms hire online English teachers?
3. Where should you look for jobs?
4. Setting up to work independently
a. Do you have the... [Read more]
How to Give Feedback to Your ESL Students - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
How to Give Feedback to Your ESL Students
09/01/2021
hey everybody it's lisa here and i'm glad to welcome you to a new itttt live stream
uh so i'm going to wait for a while for some more people to join us uh but while
doing so i'm going to change the slide uh just one sec
so that you could see it um bigger so i'm going to zoom in
and yeah i'm just going to present itttt right right straight away
uh so itttt is a leading tefl and tesol training and we provide high quality
tefl certification so if you are interested in becoming
a teacher and you are willing to build on um a successful career
tefl should be the first step uh in this journey uh so check us out
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Live Event: The Best Ideas for Online TEFL Teaching in 2021 - TEFL Blog
Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Federico Riva
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Live Event: The Best Ideas for Online TEFL Teaching in 2021
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.
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The Best Ideas For Online TEFL Teaching In 2021 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Best Ideas for Online TEFL Teaching in 2021
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 there is something bad going on in the comment... [Read more]