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Successful Teaching Career Step by Step - TEFL Blog
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Successful Teaching Career Step by Step
Teachers teach children to much more. They use games, videos, computers, and other tools to teach children different subjects. Teachers show students skills. They also explain the information. Teachers plan their lessons before they teach. Planning takes a lot of time.
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Role of the Teacher
Steps of being a successful teacher:
What is the role of a teacher in the life of a student?
How to build a successful teaching career?
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Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in Japan - TEFL Blog
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 Linda Dunsmore
Destinations TEFL Information
Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in Japan
Japan has been a popular destination for English teachers from all over the world for decades. Year after year, thousands of teachers come to Japan attracted by the country's fascinating culture and the lucrative salaries, as well as the government-funded JET program that places qualified teachers into public schools across the country. Teaching English in Japan is an exciting adventure and offers you the opportunity to experience a unique culture like a local. However, it is important to be aware of the local job market and regulations before heading off on your adventure of teaching English in Japan.
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Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in China - TEFL Blog
Mon, 05 Mar 2018 Linda Dunsmore
Visa and Legal
Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in China
If you are interested in teaching English abroad, you probably quickly realized that China is one of the largest job markets for TEFL teachers at the moment. Truth is, China has over 300 million English learners and schools are hiring constantly. This large demand for qualified teachers leads to high salaries and great benefits to attract teachers to make the move. China is a great place to work in if you're a new teacher and if you have experience in the field. However, it is key to understand the country's current visa regulations and the local preferences of schools to be able to teach English in China.
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Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in Thailand - TEFL Blog
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 Mark Crocker
Visa and Legal Destinations
Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in Thailand
Thailand has been one of Asia's most popular destinations for teaching English abroad for many years due to its endless cultural attractions, great climate, and wide range of job opportunities, but how do you go about teaching there legally? As the process can be a little confusing, we have put together the following guide to help you get started.
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Step 1: Understanding the Visa Situation
Step 2: Get Your TEFL Certification
Step 4: Apply for Jobs
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Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in South Korea - TEFL Blog
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 Linda Dunsmore
Visa and Legal Destinations
Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in South Korea
South Korea is one of the most attractive locations for teaching English as a foreign language. The country has been welcoming foreign teachers for decades with lucrative salary and benefit packages, as well as the government-funded EPIK program that places qualified teachers into public schools across the country. South Korea is a great place to work whether you are a new teacher or if you have some experience in the field. However, it is important that you understand the local job market and regulations before heading off on your adventure.
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Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in the Czech Republic - TEFL Blog
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 Christine Thompson
Visa and Legal Destinations
Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in the Czech Republic
Though quite bureaucratic for non-EU passport holders, it is by no means impossible to get permission to work and stay legally in the Czech Republic. Depending on your country of origin, the process will differ slightly, but the following should give you a good idea of the process involved:
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Step 1: Understanding the Visa Situation
Step 2: Documents You Will Need
Step 3: Get Your TEFL Certification
Step 5: Apply for Jobs
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Christine is from Nashua, USA, and started her ESL career teaching refugees as a volunteer in Boston in the early 90's. She later worked for 10 years as a teacher, and eventually a teacher trainer, for GEOS Japan, Kansai. She came to Prague in 2008 to do the DELTA and has been there ever since. She is currently a teacher trainer, director of studies and career placement specialist for Prague TEFL.
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Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in the Czech Republic | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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How hard is the TEFL exam? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
How hard is the TEFL exam?
Many prospective English teachers wonder about the difficulty of a TEFL exam. At ITTT, our focus is on delivering top-tier teacher training complemented by thorough pre- and post-course support. This comprehensive approach ensures that our students are well-prepared for any tests their course requires. As evidence of our program's efficacy, we boast a pass rate of over 90% - among the highest in the TEFL industry. Thus, while our TEFL courses require dedication and effort, with the right preparation and commitment, a pass is highly achievable.
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Is a TEFL certification course difficult?
How difficult is the TEFL exam?
Is a TEFL certification course difficult?
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First Step in Teaching: Reasons to take a TEFL Course - TEFL Blog
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
First Step in Teaching: Reasons to take a TEFL Course
I would rather start by sharing my experience with the combination of teaching and living in several different countries to clarify why I have chosen this topic:
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My Story
Special Education
Getting Ready
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My Story
In the past, when I was younger, I did not have any interest and was not enthusiastic about learning English, and I remember that I always used to escape from foreign language classes. Once I turned to 16 and 17, during... [Read more]
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After leaving the UK to travel in the mid-1990s, Mark has to date visited over 50 countries across six continents. After completing a TEFL course in Phuket, Thailand, he decided to make it his base and has since worked as an online TEFL trainer and a freelance writer.
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Destinations
Mexico is one of the most popular destinations for teaching ESL anywhere in the world, but what is there to do in your free time away from the classroom? Here we look at 8 of the most popular places to visit across this fascinating country.
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How do I become an English teacher overseas? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
How do I become an English teacher overseas?
The high demand for English language teachers worldwide offers English speakers from all walks of life exciting opportunities to live and travel abroad. In most cases, you do not need any prior teaching experience to teach English overseas. Moving to another country to live, work, and travel, on the other hand, will necessitate careful planning and foresight. Good research is also essential to ensuring that you do it correctly.
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Linda is a passionate traveler, language learner and TEFL teacher. After spending some time teaching in China, she moved to Korea in 2015. She now calls South Korea her home.
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Step-By-Step Guide to Legally Teaching English in Japan | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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Linda is a passionate traveler, language learner and TEFL teacher. After spending some time teaching in China, she moved to Korea in 2015. She now calls South Korea her home.
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Visa and Legal Destinations
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3 Steps for Teaching ESL Vocabulary Effectively - TEFL Blog
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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3 Steps for Teaching ESL Vocabulary Effectively
Words are an essential part of the structure of English sentences. If we want to speak English as a foreign language, we need to know new words and even progress. Considering a student who needs to know and learn new words as a teacher, we have to answer this question "What impressive ways do you have in teaching ESL vocabulary?"
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To effectively acquire new ESL vocabulary, students must go through four essential stages:
1. Noticing and understanding new words
Introducing nouns, things, objects, animals, etc.
Introducing adjectives
Introducing abstracts
2. Recognizing new words
Bingo
Matching
3. Producing ESL vocabulary
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6 Important Steps to Getting a Teaching Job - TEFL Blog
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 Jon ITTT
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6 Important Steps to Getting a Teaching Job
Many people are unaware quite how accessible a career teaching English as a foreign language is while others are simply not aware that it is even possible to live and work abroad in almost any country in the world. Not only is possible but it is relatively easy to achieve in a short period of time. By following the six steps outlined here, you could be working abroad as an EFL teacher before you know it.
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Step 1 - Research where you want to teach
Step 2 – Earn your TEFL certificate
Step 3 – Apply for jobs
Step 4 – Attend a job interview
Step 5 – Check the fine print
Step 6 – Settle in to your new home and get ready to teach
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5 Steps to Work on Your ESL Teaching Career - TEFL Blog
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
5 Steps to Work on Your ESL Teaching Career
When I started teaching English, I've always experienced imposter syndrome because my major was Linguistics. I had no idea about teaching itself, although I knew a lot about how the language works.
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Step 1: TEFL Course
Step 2: Further Education with MOOCs
Step 3: Educational Conferences
Step 4: Teaching Community
Step 5: Language Tests
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11 Steps to Teaching Confidence in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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11 Steps to Teaching Confidence in the ESL Classroom
The teacher with no experience or little experience can face issues like fear of teaching, lack of confidence, or empowerment. This can happen to the experienced teacher as well, especially in the situations of changing jobs, type of the group, institution, or topics he/she is accustomed to teaching.
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To gain more confidence during your lessons there are few tips and words of advice to bear in mind:
1. The teacher is the center of the lesson.
2. Work on your special 'teacher's' voice and intonation.
3. Find an online or offline course about developing effective presentation skills.
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3 Steps to Teaching Mixed Ability ESL Students Effectively - TEFL Blog
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
3 Steps to Teaching Mixed Ability ESL Students Effectively
It is well known that the population of students in the same class is usually heterogeneous. In other words, all students have different learning abilities, talents, intelligence, interests, and maturity level. A teacher's task is to understand how to help each student to learn best. Educators use various teaching techniques, methods, and tools to reach students' needs. There are different ways to teach the classes with mixed learning abilities, and among them are the strategies that work well in the multilevel classes.
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7 Steps to Paying Off Your Student Loans While Teaching English Abroad - TEFL Blog
Tue, 29 May 2018 Linda Dunsmore
Budget and Salary
7 Steps to Paying Off Your Student Loans While Teaching English Abroad
Have you just graduated or are about to graduate college and face a massive amount of student loans? You are not on your own. In the United States alone, the national student debt totals over $1.4 trillion this year. This number means that the average graduate in the US owes $17,126 and this number is rising year after year. When you are this much in debt, you can't possibly think about moving abroad - or can you?
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Step 1: Get a TEFL Certificate
Step 2: Find a Teaching Position Abroad
Step 3: Start Your Adventure and Make a Budget Plan
Step 4: Stick to Your Budget... But Also Have Fun!
Step 5: Send Money Back Home
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5 Steps to Teaching the Degrees of Comparison in an ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
5 Steps to Teaching the Degrees of Comparison in an ESL Classroom
ESL students face the rules for the degrees of comparison early on in their English learning path. However, this topic may become daunting and lead to constant mistakes later on due to problems like confusing different degrees, doubling up, formulating unbalanced comparisons, etc.
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What Are Adjectives?
For example:
Adjective Degrees
Irregular Comparative
Syllable
Bonus Rule
For example, let's take a positive adjective slow:
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How to Build Your Teaching Career as a Non-Native English Teacher
Hello everybody, my name is Liza and I am super glad to welcome you to my weekly live session. Please let me know that you can see me clearly and hear me clearly. Today's live session is going to be devoted to a really popular question in my direct messages. I've received several requests to talk about teaching career advice and I hope everybody will find something interesting in this live stream.
We've got the chat box here and you basically can comment with whatever you want. As I have already mentioned my name is Liza and I am a TEFL expert and a former ESL teacher. I’ve been teaching online since 2020 because of the quarantine and because I just want to work remotely. I'm also a non-native English speaker and... [Read more]
5 Steps to Prepare Yourself for Your TEFL Interview - TEFL Blog
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 Marie Hernandez
Visa and Legal TEFL Information
5 Steps to Prepare Yourself for Your TEFL Interview
If you plan on teaching English as a foreign language, you may need to obtain an officially recognized teaching certificate (such as TEFL) before you start looking at the positions that are available. In some countries, these certifications are absolutely necessary when it comes to finding a paying job as a teacher. Once you have completed your TEFL training you can then follow these 5 steps to ensure your job interviews go smoothly.
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Step 1: Set Up a Professional Look
Step 4: Research the School/Company and Have Questions Ready
Step 5: Take Control of Your Voice and Surroundings
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How to Build Your Teaching Career as a Non-Native English Teacher - TEFL Blog
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
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How to Build Your Teaching Career as a Non-Native English Teacher
Hello everybody, my name is Liza and I am super glad to welcome you to my weekly live session. Please let me know that you can see me clearly and hear me clearly. Today's live session is going to be devoted to a really popular question in my direct messages. I've received several requests to talk about teaching career advice and I hope everybody will find something interesting in this live stream.
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Watch the live session here
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How hard is the TEFL exam? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
How hard is the TEFL exam?
We have made it our mission to provide you with the very best teacher training in the industry. This includes comprehensive pre- and post-course support so that all our course graduates can start their new journey as an English teacher in the best way possible. Due to this extensive support, we are proud to say that our pass rate is over 90%, which is one of the highest in the TEFL industry.
Is a TEFL certification course difficult?
A high-level TEFL course is comparable to a university course as it involves a great amount of time and effort. However, if you put in the work, review all the course content thoroughly and do well on your assessment tests, chances of failing are very slim.
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6 Steps to Becoming a TEFL Trainer - TEFL Blog
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 Linda Dunsmore
TEFL Information
6 Steps to Becoming a TEFL Trainer
One of the routes you might want to think about taking after your TEFL course is to train other people how to teach English. It can be very rewarding seeing people who have never taught before gain in confidence and ability over a short space of time. What does it take?
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STEP 1: Complete your TEFL course
STEP 2: Continue your formal studies
STEP 3: Get Experience
STEP 4: Choose the right location
STEP 5: Find a company to work for
STEP 6: Plan to settle into the job
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