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Can TEFL work for non-native English speaking teachers? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 25 Feb 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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Can TEFL work for non-native English speaking teachers?
TEFL is considered a career with few opportunities for non-native English speaking teachers as a lot of employers only hire native English speaking teachers. However, with the expansion of TEFL worldwide and the increasing number of individuals ready to get TEFL certified and move abroad to teach, there are also many non-native English speakers who enter the career of TEFL teaching. A TEFL certificate allows teachers to explore the world, break out of their national boundaries while working a rewarding job and earning a competitive salary.
So what about non-native English speaking teachers? While the competition on the global TEFL market is fierce, a non-native English speaking... [Read more]
Should You Teach One-to-One or Student Groups? - An ESL Teacher Explains the Difference - TEFL Blog
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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Should You Teach One-to-One or Student Groups? - An ESL Teacher Explains the Difference
I founded an English training center in China in 2017 and have been teaching a wide variety of English classes since then. I teach both one-to-one and groups, and I find them to be very different.
Prospective TEFL teachers may want to consider: which kind of class fits you best?
Below I would like to compare my experiences in teaching and managing these two types of class, and also give some suggestions for prospective TEFL teachers to make a realistic choice.
This post was written by our ITTT graduate Yan Z.
Do you prefer small groups or bigger classes?
The first difference, obviously, is the class size, which decides your budget. When teaching... [Read more]
Will motivated students learn more English? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
Will motivated students learn more English?
There is little doubt that students who are interested, involved and motivated are easier to teach. Motivated students are forthcoming and attentive, the class flows easily, and there is more response and creativity during activities. So, with a class full of motivated kids, we find our English class is more fun. But does that mean the students can learn as much?
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Melanie S.
The level of motivation is tied to the teacher’s response.
In many countries, in fact, in many traditional schools across the world, grammar drilling, memorization and recitation are primary methods of teaching. Some students learn the rules and memorize all the... [Read more]
How Does Seating Arrangement in the Classroom Influence Classroom Management? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 29 May 2019 Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
How Does Seating Arrangement in the Classroom Influence Classroom Management?
The seating arrangement is one of the most important topics in classroom management. Classroom management refers to the various skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task and academically productive during the class. However, this essay is going to explore more on the various methods of seating arrangement and how they influence classroom management. There are three most common seating arrangement methods that can be used by the teacher. These include the traditional rows and columns, horseshoe or U-shape and clusters. These are going to be explained in detail outlining their advantages and... [Read more]
Live TEFL Q&A: Ask Us Anything! - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Live TEFL Q&A: Ask Us Anything!
03/31/2021
hello hi i am back for another live session this
week my name is linda from itt over here and um yeah hi i took a break last week
i was um traveling actually a little bit of traveling in korea not too far um but yeah i enjoyed the
cherry blossoms so that's why there was no life for me last week
but um yeah i'm back this week i'm super excited to be back and um yeah today we're just
gonna have a um you know q and a session so you guys can ask me questions
about tefl and tesol and everything uh teaching abroad teaching online
whatever you want to know about tefl and tesol and all that good stuff um so yeah that's what i'm here for
today so something a bit more casual um let's have a chat i like to you know uh get to know you
guys better you... [Read more]
10 Advantages Of Taking A TEFL Course With ITTT - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
10 Advantages of Taking a TEFL Course with ITTT
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What traits should an EFL teacher have in teaching one-to-one Business English? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
What traits should an EFL teacher have in teaching one-to-one Business English?
.As I learned from the 50-hour CTBE course, teaching business English always involves one-to-one mode. Imagine there is a student who is a high profile business person in China. He needs to learn English for his own Business work and he prefers one-to-one lessons. Then, what traits should an EFL teacher have in order to get this teaching job? In this essay, I would like to use this case to discuss some attributes that a businessman would seek in an EFL teacher and why he would demand those traits.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Lisha L.
English language + business knowledge
First, the EFL teacher should have a broad knowledge of... [Read more]
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session about all things TEFL & Teaching - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session about all things TEFL & Teaching
01/21/2021
hello everybody hello and welcome
we're actually also going live on instagram today so i'm gonna check that out as well
so when i look here hi this is on instagram and when i look here this is on facebook
and youtube so hopefully everything will be working fine
i hope everybody can hear me well and can see me as well so this is the first time that
we're actually live on instagram and on facebook and youtube at the same time so i have a lot of
screens here in front of me hello there i see somebody tuned in on instagram and a couple of people here as
well on facebook and youtube so
i hope everything is going well today hi great okay so unfortunately if you're
watching on instagram um you won't be able to see... [Read more]
Answering the Most Asked TEFL/TESOL Questions - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Answering the Most Asked TEFL/TESOL Questions
06/03/2021
hi welcome guys linda here from itt for another
live session this week i'm so happy to be here today the weather is great today the lighting
is good uh if you were watching last week uh yeah it was pretty much like the end of
the world weather here and it suddenly turned super dark and i don't have a light or anything
like a ring light so um but today it's great i feel good i have my coffee
right here even though it's almost gone but um yeah so happy to be here if you
can see me if you can hear me please just drop a high into the comments we are live on
facebook and we're also live on youtube and if you're listening to this as a podcast episode
thanks for the download we really appreciate it we always turn our live
sessions into... [Read more]
Group Teaching or One-to-One: What Will You Choose? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 02 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
TEFL Information
Group Teaching or One-to-One: What Will You Choose?
Teaching a group or having private lessons can be as beneficial as challenging. Let’s try to understand which kind of teaching is more suitable for us.
This post was written by our ITTT graduate Catalina R.
Advantages of Group Teaching
Teaching large classes has many advantages. A large class offers a greater variety of activities. The teacher can have students work alone, in pairs, in groups or as a class. This allows the focus to be placed on the students instead of the teacher. Pair or group work helps motivate the students because they share their doubts and ideas in a safe environment among peers. It can also challenge students because the weaker students will become better... [Read more]
Which TEFL course should I take? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
Which TEFL course should I take?
Although you are free to sign up for any course that catches your eye, there is one thing you should always bear in mind: the minimum qualification required by most ESL employers worldwide is a 120-hour TEFL certificate course. The good news for our trainees is that there are a number of ways in which this can be achieved with ITTT.
Travel to learn or stay at home?
The first distinction in TEFL course type depends upon whether you want to travel to a training center to complete your studies or stay at home. If you wish to travel, then an ‘onsite’ course is best for you. Should you wish to complete your training at home then an ‘online’ course is best.
What are onsite TEFL courses like?
The four-week 120-hour TEFL certification course can be... [Read more]
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session About All Things TEFL & Teaching - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session about all things TEFL & Teaching
Hello everybody and welcome. We're actually also going live on Instagram today, so I'm going to check that out as well as the usual Facebook and YouTube. Hopefully everything will work fine. I hope everybody can hear me well and can see me. This is the first time that we're actually live on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube at the same time, so I have a lot of screens here in front of me.
Hello there, I see somebody tuned in on Instagram and we have a few people here on Facebook and YouTube already. I hope everything is going well today. Unfortunately, if you're watching on Instagram you won't be able to see the screen and maybe some of the questions that I'm popping in there but that's all good, you can still... [Read more]
Creative Writing Prompts: My City - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Creative Writing Prompts: My City
This is a creative writing prompt about your student's city. Have them write answers to all the questions asked at the top of the sheet.
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TEFL Q&A With a Non-Native ESL Teacher - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL Q&A With a Non-Native ESL Teacher
07/07/2021
hey there it's liza here how are you doing guys um i'm super glad
to welcome you to today's live session and i should say it's an unusual time
for me to start my live stream uh however from now on we're going to go
live uh on different days at different time uh just to make sure that we can uh
help out as many people as it is possible and there are some
people who can't make it on my regular day and at my regular time so that is why
i'm here today uh it's actually 10 am at my place
and i should say it's just the best way to start my um day my work day because um
i can meet this um interesting people who are motivated and um
proactive to change their career or i don't know like
develop careers so i'm super glad to be here and if you... [Read more]
Ask a Non-Native TEFL Teacher: Career, Motivation, Self-Development - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Ask a Non-Native TEFL Teacher: Career, Motivation, Self-Development
04/20/2021
hey guys it's liza here and i'm super happy to welcome you to
our weekly itttt live session uh today we are going to talk um about
some usual teaching stuff and if you are interested in anything related to tefl teaching
or um probably career building so feel free to uh comment
and i'll try to help you out and reach you back with uh my thoughts and
ideas um and maybe you'll find um my suggestions useful okay uh
i have to fix my camera just slightly i feel like it's moving moving down
somehow so um i hope that you can hear me clearly and
you can see me clearly and if you see this video if you see
this live please let me know where are you guys from so what's something is wrong with my camera
uh for some reason i... [Read more]
Present Simple Reading Comprehension - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Present Simple Reading Comprehension
Read Elizabeth's description of her daily routine and answer the questions below.
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Q&A About TEFL/TESOL - Ask us anything! - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Q&A About TEFL/TESOL - Ask us anything!
12/10/2020
hello and welcome my name is linda from itt um thanks for tuning in if you are
watching for the first time thanks so much welcome and if you've seen me before on one of our lives welcome back
thanks for joining us again if you can see me and you can hear me please let me know in the comments so
that i know that everything is working well and also please let me know where you're
watching from that's always very interesting for me to know i am in south korea so it's actually
friday morning right now it's 10 a.m so i have my morning coffee right here
that i might have to uh take a few sips from here and there um but yeah where are you watching from
let me know i really i'm really curious to know and today we are talking about
well you... [Read more]
Unreal Conditionals - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Unreal Conditionals - Speaking Cards
This is a set of cards to practice unreal conditionals questions and short answers with your ESL students. They work in pairs or groups and interview each other.
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Was/Were Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Was/Were Board Game
This fun activity helps your students practice the verb to be in the past simple by playing a board game where they give true or false answers to questions.
How to play
Give each group of three or four a copy of the game board, a set of true or false cards, a dice and counters. The students shuffle the cards and place them face down in a pile next to the game board. The players then take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a player lands on a square, they pick up a true or false card from the pile and look at it, without showing it to anyone. The player then answers the question on the square using was or were by giving either true or false information as... [Read more]
Q&A: Ask a Non-Native ESL Teacher - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Q&A: Ask a Non-Native ESL Teacher
02/02/2022
hey guys it's lizzy here and i'm happy to welcome you at another ittttts live
stream uh if you don't know me yet i'm a non-native esl teacher
i also passed a tefl certification uh several years
ago and uh if you are here to learn a little bit more about uh tefl certification
uh and uh particularly how to be a non-native esl teacher uh
these days i'm here to help you out so feel free to ask me whatever um comes
to your mind whatever disturbs you maybe because i am that person who
is like 100 percent on your side i'm also a non-native esl teacher and um it
took me a while to overcome some challenges being a non-native teacher
so feel free to ask me anything by the way i have prepared
several questions from from our channel on youtube
so i'm... [Read more]
TEFL TESOL: 24/7 Customer Care Assistance & Tutoring - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL TESOL: 24/7 Customer Care Assistance & Tutoring
At ITTT we put a strong emphasis on customer care as we know that getting all the information you need and then choosing the right course to suit you can sometimes be a difficult task. If you have any questions regarding our TEFL courses or have any other pre-course queries, you can contact us via a wide range of convenient platforms. Our online contact form is a simple and effective way of sending your questions in and we will do our best to get back to you promptly with all the answers you need. You can also chat to one of our friendly and knowledgeable staff members via WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.
On our contact page you will find several phone numbers that you can contact us on directly, depending on your location.... [Read more]
Reasons Why You Should Complete a TEFL Course Before Starting Teaching - TEFL Blog
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Reasons Why You Should Complete a TEFL Course Before Starting Teaching
Many non-native English speaking countries only require teachers to have a bachelor's degree, and it can be in any field. It can be a degree in anything at all, thus not having prepared the future teacher for their new job and life. Some other countries don't require a bachelor's degree at all. With the rise in demand for learning English as a second language has come the increased relevance and need for courses such as TEFL. I'm an example of someone who had no background in teaching, and I also didn't take a course before I dove in. I had to "fake it till I made it" and looking back, that was unfair to the students. Even if I wasn't breaking any laws and I was... [Read more]
Present Simple Battleship - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Present Simple Battleship
This game is to practice the Present Simple Tense questions and short answers. Students draw the ships on their boards and then they start shooting, trying to guess, where their partner's ships are.
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Live Look into TEFL/TESOL Online Course Platform - TEFL Blog
Thu, 20 May 2021 Federico Riva
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Live Look into TEFL/TESOL Online Course Platform
Hello and welcome, Linda here again. Thanks so much for tuning in to this week's live session. If you're listening to this as a podcast episode, thanks so much for the download. We always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes so if you're into podcasts check that out. You can find us on any podcast platform, you can just search for The TEFL and TESOL Podcast from ITTT. We are live on Facebook and on YouTube as always, so thanks so much for tuning in.
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I see there are a lot of people joining. What we're going to do today is I am going to show you what it looks like when you take an online TEFL course with ITTT. I’m just making sure that everything works... [Read more]
What TEFL course is most useful? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 Linda Dunsmore
TEFL Information
What TEFL course is most useful?
Online TEFL and TESOL courses are a fast and easy way to become an internationally certified English teacher. At International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT), we offer a variety of online options for new teachers and those who are already qualified and looking to enhance their professional portfolio. We understand that the process of becoming a teacher abroad can be a little overwhelming, which is why we'd like to help you choose the right online course for your career.
For New Teachers
Since teaching overseas is a lucrative career for many native and fluent English speakers worldwide, we offer high-quality TEFL and TESOL training for those without any prior teaching experience. The following courses... [Read more]
Animal Reading Comprehension - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Animal Reading Comprehension
This is a fun worksheet for reading comprehension. The students read the two texts and answer questions about the animals.
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Conversation Cards about Experiences - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Conversation Cards about Experiences
These are fun conversation cards about experiences. Have your students pick a card, read out the questions and answer them.
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Your Questions About TEFL & TESOL Answered! - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Your Questions about TEFL & TESOL Answered!
Welcome, I'm Linda from ITTT, and we are doing a live Q&A session today, so let me just check if this is working. Is anybody here if you're here, if you can see me if you can hear me. Please, leave a comment. That would be great so that I know that you are here. And, please, let me know where you guys are tuning in from? I would be super interested to see where you are tuning in from. I'm in South Korea. I'm about an hour and a half outside of Seoul, like in the middle of South Korea in a city called Cheongju. It's not that big. It is quite big, but it's not pretty well known, but um, I've been here for five and a half years already.
So, hello, some people are here great! Hi, welcome! Where are you guys? Please, let me know. So... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Study Short Answers - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
EFL Sample Lesson - Study Phase - Short Answers
This video is a sample EFL lesson in a real-life classroom setting abroad. After covering how to build questions with modals, the teacher elicits the form for short answers from his students. Notice how the teacher elicits information from his students rather than feeding them the new information. This way, the students think in English and also speak to the teacher in English.
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... [Read more]
TEFL - FAQs
At ITTT we are dedicated to training new teachers to become effective and confident professionals who are capable of working in English language classrooms worldwide. Throughout the training process we are here to guide you every step of the way, from choosing the right course all the way through to finding the best job to suit your plans. Inevitably you will have many questions along the way which is why we have put together the following FAQ section that should help to answer some of the most common queries.
TEFL & TESOL (General)
What does TEFL mean?
The acronym TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. It is commonly used to refer to training courses that almost anyone can take to learn the skills and knowledge required to teach... [Read more]