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What is Important for Early Career Teachers? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
What is Important for Early Career Teachers?
I have been teaching for almost 5 years now. My teaching career, I should say is at the beginner level. But I rather call it the aspirational level. At this level, I am in the stage of acquiring different qualifications to have more advantages and gain a wider scope in teaching. But as I seek more qualifications, I slowly understand what is important for early-career teachers like me.
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My Start
Setting up Goals
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How Motivated Students Influence the Whole Atmosphere of the Classroom - TEFL Blog
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 Federico Riva
Teaching Ideas
How Motivated Students Influence the Whole Atmosphere of the Classroom
In any classroom, for students to successfully learn to the best of their abilities, they must be motivated to do so. If a student is not motivated to learn, they will not actively engage with the lesson, they will not focus on the information presented, and they will not retain the new material. This is why motivation is so essential for each student's learning experience. A large part of achieving student motivation comes from the teacher inspiring this motivation.
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Actions
Ways I Motivate Students
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3 Reasons Why Lesson Plan Will Make Your Teaching Less Stressful and Frustrating - TEFL Blog
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
3 Reasons Why Lesson Plan Will Make Your Teaching Less Stressful and Frustrating
Lesson planning has always been the backbone of my lessons. I believe that to be successful in anything you need to plan, especially with projects or goals that are complex and time-consuming. As a teacher, I want to do everything I can to give my students every advantage possible, and that requires preparation and planning. Lesson planning is an essential part of teaching in a classroom and is the key to being an effective educator.
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What can a lesson plan give you?
1. Achieve your goals
2. Visualize your lesson
3. Deepen students' experience
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Ways to Encourage ESL Students to Learn English - TEFL Blog
Wed, 02 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Ways to Encourage ESL Students to Learn English
To be able to answer this question, we need to think about what is the meaning of motivation. So motivation is the force that drives us to achieve our goals.
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What Does Students' Progress Depend on?
Motivation
Student-Teacher Relationships
Evaluation and Assessment
Parents Role
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What Does Students' Progress Depend on?
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5 Simple Ways to Motivate Your EFL Students - TEFL Blog
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
5 Simple Ways to Motivate Your EFL Students
Regardless of what you are teaching, the outcome of a learning process for students will be affected deeply by how motivated they are. Motivation can initiate students to pay more attention, care more about what they are learning, and increase the time and efficiency on the mission at hand. In an EFL course, motivation will most likely be a crucial factor in how fast and well a student may learn English.
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Knowing the Purpose
Engage the Students
Show That You Care
Encourage Your Students Frequently
Set Easy-to-Reach Goals
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Moving Forward: My Personal Teaching Experience, Changing Careers - TEFL Blog
Mon, 11 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Moving Forward: My Personal Teaching Experience, Changing Careers
I've always wanted to be a teacher. In high school, I was inspired by my English teachers and the way they were able to make material interesting and motivating. I remember telling myself that I would not be the person who changes the world, but perhaps as a teacher, I would be able to inspire the person who would. From the beginning, my motivation was to help others in a meaningful way. My goal was to improve the lives of others. When I entered university, I found myself studying philosophy to become a professor in the future. However, the reality of being a university professor was a lot of presenting and publishing, with very little teaching. Because teaching... [Read more]
5 Great Ways to Give Your Students Feedback - TEFL Blog
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 Linda Dunsmore
Teaching Ideas
5 Great Ways to Give Your Students Feedback
As a teacher, you should always give your students effective and meaningful feedback on their performance and progress. However, it is all too common for students to feel like they are being criticized by their teachers instead of being given constructive and useful comments. That's why we have listed these 5 great ways to give your students feedback.
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1. Tailor Your Feedback
2. Timing is Key
3. Balance the Feedback
4. It's All in the Details
5. Help Setting Goals
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7 Things to Remember for Increasing Motivation in Your Class - TEFL Blog
Wed, 12 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
7 Things to Remember for Increasing Motivation in Your Class
An essential part of effective teaching is motivating students to learn. Through my experience as a teacher and learner, I have found many times where I have lacked the motivation to learn. This lack of motivation happened for a variety of reasons. They included general tiredness, lack of interest in the subject, an instructor who was going through the motions with no passion for what they taught and personal problems to name a few. As instructors, some things can and cannot be controlled. Teachers can control class content and presentation. They can develop lessons that have interest and purpose to cause their students to engage. What they cannot do is influence a... [Read more]
The Secret Strategy of Developing Teaching Abilities - TEFL Blog
Thu, 06 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Secret Strategy of Developing Teaching Abilities
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate BUSAYO J. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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Plan Your Teaching Backward from Authentic Performance Tasks
Steps to Take
Expect students to self assess their learning and performance and set goals based on assessment results:
Positive Results
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What Drives Students in the Classroom - TEFL Blog
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
What Drives Students in the Classroom
How can a teacher motivate an EFL classroom? Motivation is a major part of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There is more to motivation in the classroom than knowing English is a useful language to learn.
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Importance of Motivation
Ways to Motivate
Types of Motivation
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Importance of Motivation
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How to Use Learners’ Internal Motivation - TEFL Blog
Thu, 02 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
How to Use Learners’ Internal Motivation
Motivating students is always a challenge and can, in fact, be one of the most difficult parts of education. There are countless ways to either encourage or intimidate a student into completing their work or participating in class but these external motivators have a limited effect. Encouragement and praise may only motivate a student while they are seated in the classroom. A teacher expressing disappointment on an uncompleted assignment may only encourage the student to avoid the subject or course work altogether. One of the best ways I have found for motivating students is to find a student's internal motivation.
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Finding Students' Future Goals
Setting Up The... [Read more]
Top Tips for Giving Feedback and Correction - TEFL Blog
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Teaching Ideas
Top Tips for Giving Feedback and Correction
Student feedback and correction are an integral part of our teaching methodology. In this blog post, we introduce some general concepts.
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Considering the teacher-student relationship
What is the goal here?
Peer evaluation and correction
One type of Mistake
Conclusion:
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The Main Aspects of Motivation in a Business English Classroom - TEFL Blog
Tue, 05 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Main Aspects of Motivation in a Business English Classroom
Motivation plays one of the most important roles in a teacher's pedagogy and students' process of learning. In the classroom both sides have to be motivated, students and teachers likewise. It will make work productive and resultative. So, before we get into the details about how to keep the atmosphere motivated in your classroom, let's figure out what is 'motivation', what types of motivation exist, and what can help us to be motivated and motivate others.
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Motivation as a process
Methods of increasing motivation
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Increasing Teacher’s Confidence - TEFL Blog
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Increasing Teacher’s Confidence
For a class to be interesting and beneficial to both the teacher and the students, quite a lot of things have to be taken into consideration. Smooth sailing of the classes and success of the students in acquiring the English language can largely be attributed to the teacher's character and/or behavior. The confidence of a teacher has great meaning as it gives birth to students' confidence in learning English.
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What is Confidence?
Ways to Work On Confidence
Self-Education
Setting Up Goals
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Inspiring Students to Embrace English Learning in Developing Countries - TEFL Blog
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 Minh Huy Hoang
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Inspiring Students to Embrace English Learning in Developing Countries
In developing countries, encouraging lazy students to cultivate a passion for studying English can be a challenging task. However, with the right strategies and approaches, we can greatly improve their motivation and help them discover the benefits of mastering the English language. This article presents five effective tips to inspire even the laziest of students to love studying English.
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Tip 1: Make English Relevant to Their Lives
Tip 2: Implement Interactive and Creative Activities
Tip 3: Foster an Enthusiastic and Supportive Learning Environment
Tip 4: Utilize Technology and Multimedia Resources
Tip 5: Set... [Read more]
Why I took the ITTT TEFL course? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Why I took the ITTT TEFL course?
Understanding the importance of teaching the English language.
The last 10 years the world have witnessed an increase in teaching English as a 2nd language, as we witness a shift in structural teaching to commutative and learning center approach, This new approach in teaching ESL to recognize the importance of ESL to the student, they suggest teaching methods and teaching techniques that help learner acquire the language in anxiety reduce environment.
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Understanding the importance of teaching the English language.
Why I am here
The course and unites
My expectation
My goals.
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Monitoring and Documenting Learning Through Assessments - TEFL Blog
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 Ahmed Taha
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Monitoring and Documenting Learning Through Assessments
Assessments are at the heart of the goals of deliberately and effectively helping students in the acquisition of subject-specific information and skills, conceptual understanding, and the development of learning approaches.
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Monitoring learning
Tasks that are closed or open
Task completed:
The task in progress:
Closed tasks typically:
Open-ended tasks typically:
Documenting learning
Measuring learning
Analyzing learning
Reporting learning
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Functions of a Lesson Plan - TEFL Blog
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Functions of a Lesson Plan
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Meiheriguli Y. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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Foundation
Teaching tasks
Good Lesson Plan Check-list
Lesson plan and Unit plans
Criteria of a Unit plan:
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Foundation
First of all, we must understand that the lesson plan is the most important foundation in English teaching. With a sound curriculum plan, perfect teaching can be carried out. Set out the purpose of teaching in the course plan:
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Lesson Planning as a Matter to Self-Organization at The Beginning of Your Teaching Career - TEFL Blog
Wed, 15 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Lesson Planning as a Matter to Self-Organization at The Beginning of Your Teaching Career
Lesson planning is very important for all teachers but is especially useful for a teacher at the beginning of his/her career. A lesson plan is an aid for teaching, a working document, a record, and a guide for what should be included in the lesson or entire subject during the term.
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Understanding the goals
A record of work
Structure for the lesson
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Understanding the goals
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The Principles of Designing a Syllabus - TEFL Blog
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Principles of Designing a Syllabus
English is the widely used language in the world that used as an official language in a majority of countries, as the main business language and as a universal language for education and tourism. Based on their interests and responsibilities people decide what type of English they should learn and try to find the most suitable course for their personal goals. From another perspective, as English teachers, our obligation is to create a course that consists of materials that help students to reach their goals and allow us to present English in a structured and the most appropriate way. As a result, the problem of syllabus design that meets students' expectations appears.
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First Language Acquisition and How it Informs Our Approach to Teaching Second Language - TEFL Blog
Tue, 26 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
First Language Acquisition and How it Informs Our Approach to Teaching Second Language
This topic, in particular, is of great interest to me as someone who managed to acquire two languages (Mandarin Chinese and English) at a high level. For me the journey was completely painless and the word 'acquired' is fitting since I personally never felt I had to actively undergo a 'study' to learn either language, but this statement is dependant on how we define studying and learning languages, and in turn: teaching languages. People often use the phrase 'It's like learning a whole new language' when trying to express how difficult and confusing it is to learn something, yet learning new languages shouldn't be harder than learning any other... [Read more]
How to Teach English Grammar Communicatively - TEFL Blog
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
How to Teach English Grammar Communicatively
In today's emphasis on quality education and the development of communicative competence in English, "English grammar "seems to be a big taboo when talking about English teaching. Most English teachers feel comfortable teaching a conversation lesson or a lesson that integrates other skills such as listening, reading, or writing. They show creativity in those lessons and include various ideas to help students improve their language skills. how ever this, however, more difficult when teaching a grammar topic.
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Goals
Steps
The last activity in the grammar lesson is a communicative activity, this is really the culmination of the lesson.
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English as a Global Language: Why is it an Important Skill to Have? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 13 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
English as a Global Language: Why is it an Important Skill to Have?
Communication through complex language is a uniquely human trait that allowed for the development of society and culture in the human species. Over the past several decades, humans have moved into an era of a globalized society. Part of "society" is sharing a language; therefore, a globalized society should have a shared language. While there are still many cultures across the globe and thousands of languages being spoken, English has gained a place of global dominance. The recent rise in technology has created avenues for instantaneous communication between people thousands of miles apart. With the internet playing an extremely important role in how humans continue... [Read more]
Why Teaching Productive Skills to Students is of Importance? - TEFL Blog
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Why Teaching Productive Skills to Students is of Importance?
For students to be able to communicate effectively, they need to be proficient in the four language skills. Productive skills are known SPEAKING and READING, then you have your receptive skills known as READING and LISTENING. All four language skills are of importance and should be combined during lessons as they are all of importance to teach students to communicate with others.
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Goals
Speaking
Writing
Integration
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3 Main Differences between One-To-One and Group Teaching - TEFL Blog
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
3 Main Differences between One-To-One and Group Teaching
Deciding whether to teach individuals or group classes can be difficult. There are many similarities as well as differences. The perusal of these two kinds of classes led to charting each difference and similarity. Many of the differences fell under three categories. These three major differences between teaching one-to-one and groups are the class set up, students' goals/motivations and available activities.
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Individual Tutoring
Working With a Group
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The Essence of Educational Games - TEFL Blog
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Essence of Educational Games
Educational games are methodical tools for achieving a learning goal. A successful learning game should combine motivating player's life and interesting learning content. Games should not just be practical gaps fillers in the learning process but also serve to impart certain knowledge and to consolidate skills through exercises.
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Benefits of Games
Games Goals
How to Use Games Effectively
When can we use educational games to take benefit from them in English classes?
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Answering the Question on Why Motivation is Necessary for the Classroom - TEFL Blog
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Answering the Question on Why Motivation is Necessary for the Classroom
What is the key objective of a teacher? It is simple: ensuring students learn well and don't forget what they were taught a few minutes after a course ends.
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Teacher's proficiency
Research in the field
Proof of the findings
First impression
Useful recommendations
1. Teacher's personal attitude
2. No boredom in the ESL classroom
3. Realistic goals
4. Classroom environment
5. Self-assurance
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Is Lesson Planning Overrated? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 19 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Is Lesson Planning Overrated?
Lesson planning is perhaps one of the most core fundamental things that a teacher must do. It should never be anything that is overlooked. Of course one can not plan every little detail of each minute of class, nor should they try. However, coming to class with a solid outline with goals and activities is crucial to teaching effectively.
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What influences your teaching?
Pros of a lesson plan
Expectations vs. reality
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5 Important Reasons to Start Planning Lessons Today! - TEFL Blog
Wed, 22 May 2019 Jon ITTT
Alumni Experiences
5 Important Reasons to Start Planning Lessons Today!
There are various thoughts among teachers on the use of lesson plans. Some believe that a lesson plan concentrates too much on the teacher and on what the teacher wants to accomplish and they think that this approach has the potential to neglect the students needs. On the other hand, some believe that a teacher should dictate what the students need most in a lesson. Personally, I believe that there needs to be a balance between a teacher being prepared by having a lesson plan but also have the flexibility to meet the students needs as the lessons progress.
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A lesson plan provides a framework
Lesson plans let you set clear goals
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