Classroom Language For Teachers

  When considering teacher Talk Time, we can perhaps look at the major advantage and disadvantage of the teacher actually talking. The major advantage is that you as the teacher are usually the only real model for the language, the source of correct English. So at some stages, your talking time is very important to the students. So when you?re modeling language, that use of Teacher Talk Time can be very advantageous. There are major disadvantages to overusing Teacher Talk Time, however, and perhaps the major one is that whenever the teacher is talking, the students are listening and if the students are listening, then they themselves cannot be talking. So, Teacher Talk Time reduces the opportunity for Student Talk Time. So, we should try to minimize the use of Teacher Talk Time...  [Read more]

  There are some other classroom management issues that we need to consider and they may include issues such as writing on the board, giving students individual attention, the use of teacher talk time, the way in which we should give instructions to our students, the building and maintaining of rapport with our students, and finally the one that perhaps most new teachers particularly spend a lot of time worrying and thinking about, is the issue of classroom discipline. So what we'd like to do is to take each of these in turn and look at some of the major issues surrounding these classroom management issues. 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...  [Read more]

It is certainly possible to travel overseas and work as an English language teacher if you have children. However, there are several things to consider before deciding whether it is the right option for you and your family. Wherever you are in the world raising children can be an expensive proposition, so before you head off to teach English abroad you need to be sure that it is financially viable. As pay levels vary greatly from one region to the next, where you plan to teach is one of the most important decisions you will have to make. Europe and Latin America are both very popular destinations for ESL teachers, but it is not easy to earn enough to support more than one person in these regions. In contrast, across Asia there are several countries such as China, South Korea, Taiwan and...  [Read more]

The age, background, and motivation of the students in your ESL classroom will vary greatly depending on where you are teaching and the school or institute you work for. You could have a class full of university students, hotel workers or even high flying business executives. Alternatively, you might work in a government school teaching a class of children aged anywhere from five to sixteen. Each of these groups has its own characteristics, and different teachers have their own preferences. Just remember that by completing a reputable TEFL certification course before you head off abroad, you will learn all the skills required to deliver effective and enjoyable lessons to almost any group of learners. A large percentage of teachers working in ESL classrooms overseas will find their...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in KuAnghe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. How exactly can a teacher motivate his/her students and help create a positive attitude while learning English? As a teacher, we don`t want our students to just sit in the classroom bored, too shy to speak, and learn nothing. We want to engage them by having them use their English and have fun. It is not what a teacher teaches, but how a teacher teaches that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinquan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Summative Task Topic: 128. How English teaching should be adjusted to online learning ## Introduction Advances in computer technology and education research are revolutionizing how we teach in the classroom. These same advances are also making education accessible to students who aren't able to attend class. How can technology, and rethinking the role of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiepai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Classroom management refers to how things are generally carried out in the classroom. It deals with ways on how things are supposed to be done. This includes procedures and routines among others. New teachers, however, tend to mistake classroom management and classroom discipline. Whereas classroom management is as stated above, classroom discipline is the specific...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuitianhe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Discipline is an important aspect of any classroom working with younger students. I currently work at a middle school, and discipline is foundational to creating an inclusive, welcoming classroom environment. Adolescents at this stage are typically very confrontational towards authority, and are testing the waters to what they can get away...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanzui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yiyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. For students to benefit most from their time in the classroom, they must feel at ease, focused and engaged with what they are doing. Before any sort of lesson can begin or homework administered, I believe that creating an atmosphere where the students can feel like they are being set up for success is key. Managing a classroom, from the very first day of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JiAngshe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangtan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Classroom management is important in part of teaching, and the effect of classroom management directly affects classroom efficiency. Therefore, learning how to effectively manage the classroom is a required course for every teacher. In the classroom, children are prone to situations where their thoughts are not concentrated and they are absent-minded in class such...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiuhehuan Yuanzhongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiantao, Tianmen, Qianjiang & S? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. When it comes to managing a class, a teacher must be prepared to face many different challenges. This can be especially true for a teacher in classrooms abroad. In addition to teaching a subject, a foreign teacher may also have to worry about cultural or social norms of a country they may be unaccustomed to, and other problems...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xuliu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In order to correctly and effectively manage a classroom, a teacher may be required to use several techniques. Above all, students need to feel safe within a classroom environment: no learning can be done if students are constantly worried. When students feel safe many other issues may be addressed. For instance, a classroom can be comprised of many types of students:...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Meiguiying Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulanchabu Shi — Ulanqab? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Games play an important role in keeping the students motivated and positive while learning English. As a teacher, we don`t want our students to just sit in the classroom bored, too shy to speak, and learn nothing. We want to engage them by having them use their English and have fun. It is not what a teacher teaches, but how a teacher teaches that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chaihu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingmen Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Learners of all ages need to be motivated in order for them to even come close to succeeding in being able to speak the English language. Students need as much motivation as possible to learn the language in order to achieve or strive towards goals. The motivation each student has determines the attitude they have towards the language, the other students, as well as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhAngqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. What are some course materials that can be used in the classroom? Materials are anything the teacher can bring to the classroom that can be used to aid in the teaching process. Some common examples of materials used are worksheets (used by students to practice what they are learning), pictures, flashcards, drawings, recordings, real objects (realia), comic books,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hepu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. It comes as no surprise that children learn their behaviors from adults. Such can be witnessed in the famous psychology study of Bobo the Clown, where two groups of children were put in a room with an inflatable clown; one group had previously seen an adult abuse the doll, the other did not. The findings were that “children who witnessed an adult pummeling the doll...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guantouzui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changde Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There is no doubt that the demand for learning English is increasing dramatically in the last few years. The reason is that the world seems to get smaller through globalization (trade between countries) and the increases used in technologies. Almost everyone can communicate with other people from different countries through social media such as Facebook, Twitter,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ruoshui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaihua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Children love music and they love songs in the classroom. Using English songs in the classroom can be effective to teach your learners. Children can benefit from having a lively and cheerful classroom full of music. So how can we be productive using songs in the classroom? And how can we motivate children to learn new English words and improve their pronunciation by...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangcheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhumadian Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The motivation for students and teachers in a classroom is important to build an effective and constructive learning environment. When students and teachers are motivated, the learning that is conducted is usually effective as people tend to learn better in this sort of environment. There are many factors that affect motivation in the classroom. The English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gongyeyuanqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Baotou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. ESSAY TOPIC: DISCIPLINE IN THE CLASSROOM. TITLE: The Different Approaches to Classroom Discipline. INTRODUCTION. This essay focuses on discipline in the classroom, the styles and approaches to discipline, Importance of discipline in the classroom and maintaining classroom discipline. Additionally, I listed steps to follow to implement an effective discipline and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TiAnshAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chifeng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Abstract: Classroom management consists of the practices and procedures that a teacher uses to maintain an optimum environment in which instruction and learning can occur. Management is the act of managing, supervising, guiding and caring for an organization, program, or project you have been entrusted with. A teacher is entrusted with managing a classroom as a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuangjiAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yancheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. “Good morning class. Get out your text and follow along as I read aloud. On Slide 12 you will see that this passive voice is used correctly and on slide 13 the passive voice is used incorrectly.” We have all been there. Another boring lecture. The transmission of information is presented from teacher to student without inciting creativity or self-discovery....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sheqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhumadian Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. How to teach a bilingual classroom The last decennia showed me that children do not only speak their mother tongue anymore, they have more opportunities to acquire a new language. I believe that the main reason to this is that we have all these possibilities of travel, work in any place and live in another. We start to live in another world, a world where people...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pingqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Learning a foreign language can be very challenging and can often take months and years of study to reach a high level. This is because the learner is faced with an entirely different set of words, sounds, grammar, and sometimes even alphabet. Depending on the learners' native language or L1, the level of difficulty may vary. For example, generally, it is easier...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nantongshifumingang Zhongchuchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Motivation from the dictionary means the enthusiasm for doing something, a stimulus, or influence. The concept motivation derives from the Latin word “movere” which means “to move” (Hubert, 2006, p 481). The word motivation gets its origin from the root word "motive" meaning the reason we do what we do (McLean, 2006). Therefore, what...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dayi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Games have always been a medium that has an educational purpose to it, and this from a young age. Toddlers learn to interact with shape and physics with blocks, babies learn to talk with picture books and teenagers learn to socialize and develop logic with competitive games. Throughout human lives, games are essential tools. Nowadays, video games also take a big place...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lǚliang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The subject of punishment in the classroom is something that is hotly debated around the world. In the past, school punishment even up to the extent of corporal punishment was fairly common. But corporal punishment has been on a sharp decline with many countries outright banning it, though some, including the United States, South Korea, and Australia, still allow...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dajing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Try picturing this: students running around their desks, paper airplanes flying everywhere, and students yelling loudly, giving you a migraine. Does this sound familiar? It's a teacher's worst nightmare - an out of control classroom. Managing a classroom is part of the job for a teacher, but it can be difficult, especially for new and inexperienced teachers. Even...  [Read more]

Being an EFL teacher can bring numerous rewards and happiness, but even the most experienced EFL teacher runs into challenges in the classroom from time to time, especially when teaching young learners. Challenges may range from wondering how to organize the seating of your students in the classroom to having a student that is disruptive. There are many challenges that TEFL teachers face, and unfortunately many are not given the resources/ideas or training that is beneficial and essential in maintaining a productive and homeostatic classroom. This is an essay about some of these challenges, and of course some ideas for classroom management.Classroom management can be challenging for anyone, but especially for the new teacher who has little experience in this area. It is not only important...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingshuping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Loudi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill the love of learning.” The previous quote as said by the American lawyer Brad Henry highlights the effect of a teacher. The later whether it is positive or negative can last a life time. Teachers move lives, inspire creativity in their students and enhance their confidence. In order for the...  [Read more]