Teacher And Student Talking

  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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuAndu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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. I guess we all have been there. Sitting in a classroom where the teacher never stops talking. How did it feel? Was it interesting and motivating or was it perhaps boring and discouraging? Did you have the feeling of having learned something when the lesson was over? Whereas getting students talking in the classroom has proved quite a challenge to many teachers,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ganma Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lianyungang 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. Teaching English as second language, is as much about the Teacher explaining and facilitating as it is allowing students the space and time to speak. This in turn greatly effects the learning ability of the student in literacy and engagement. Having studied the 120-hour Course and not yet taught a class myself, I can understand the need for an inexperienced...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengdong 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. Speaking English is without any doubt, the number one, best way to learn English. Speaking builds confidence and creates opportunity. A significant problem faced by students in an ESL classroom is a teacher who loves the sound of their own voice. A teacher who spends a significant proportion of the session, speaking limits student speaking time to answering a few...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanjing 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. Teacher speaking time or Teacher talking time (TTT) is the amount of time the teacher talks in the classroom, this can be compared with student talking time (STT) which is the amount of time student talk in the classroom. It has been determined that TTT must be reduced and student talking time must be maximized. There are a number of reasons why reducing TTT such as:...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Beisheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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. TTT stands for Teacher Talking Time, ’of which teachers can't have too little. Teachers will speak more in class, when present knowledge, manage the classroom, correct students’ mistakes, praise students or provide feedback, and set up or demonstrate the classroom activities. Here are some inadequacies of too much TTT. Firstly, TTT is opposite to STT...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changle Zhen? 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. Over the course of 4 years teaching English to children from 6-10 years old, I realized that managing classroom is one of the vital keys to gaining successful lessons. Classroom management is not only organizing the class but also having a friendly, relaxed manner and maintaining discipline for students. In this essay, I am going to dig into “How to manage...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAnshAn 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 student-teacher relationship inside the classroom is necessary for the instructor to teach efficiently and for the students to learn effectively. There are several factors that needs to be taken into consideration in order to manage the classroom well. First of all, good eye contact should be established within the classroom. This signifies connection between...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiyangping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou? 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 term “Classroom Management” is defined as the following from ITTT’s TEFL Course Unit 5. “The skill of Organising and Managing the Class, having a Friendly, Relaxed manner and Maintaining Discipline.” There are many different aspects to Classroom Management. It can range from physical attributes such as Eye contact, Gestures, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tielushenghuoqu? 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. Having disruptive behavior in classroom can reduce the amount of time the teacher has to carry out the lesson. There are ways that the teacher can ensure that the classroom lessons runs adequately. For the most part, a teacher can have under control the disruptive behavior by building rapport (Training, 2011, p. 2) with the students at the beginning of school...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zijin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangyang Shi — Xiangfan? 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. Punishment can be defined as an inflicted action in a person’s environment that occurs after a given behavior, or a response which reduces the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future. There are a lot of reasons why people use punishment, but the main reason is to change someone’s behavior. There are two types of punishment known in...  [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 JingjijishukAifAqutonghailu Guanlichu? 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. During my first semester in college, my teachers arranged for my classmates and me to visit a special historic site relevant to our studies. I will never forget that two and a half hour bus ride. A guest teacher lectured on the history of the site we were soon to explore. While a number of my friends quickly drifted to sleep, I politely sat...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mengxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in E'erduosi Shi — Ordos? 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. Throughout the lessons, I noticed a strong theme of games in the classroom. They appeared in every example and nearly every unit. This stood out to me and I looked further into the role that games play in the classroom. Games impact and help the students in many ways. They are engaging, help build rapport with their peers and the teacher, they allow the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lushui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhuzhou 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. Topic: Why complete a TEFL course As a teacher with the passion of teaching young learners, experiencing and exploring new language and culture in other parts of the globe, I have come to realize that, to meet my career expectation and needs, I need a certification to kick start. I strongly believe Teaching English as a Foreign Language(TEFL) certification will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huilongpu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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 this essay, I will talk about the differences and pros and cons of one to one and group teaching. All the arguments given are based on my teaching experience with young learners. Pros of one to one teaching for teachers. The biggest advantage of this teaching style is the easily manageable class. The teacher doesn't need to think about more classroom...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LamawAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huhehaote Shi — Hohhot? 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 in The Classroom Games traditionally were played outside the classroom as a break from learning. They now are known to be powerful learning strategies earning a respected place inside the classroom. Being fun and interactive, ESL teachers integrate them into lessons to engage and activate students. Included in this essay are some activities as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jindong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yongzhou 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 best thing I learned from the TEFL course cannot be explained in one thought or topic sentence because the amount of information was significant. However, for this essay, I will narrow it down to one concept. I am an experienced licensed teacher from the United States, but there is always more to learn. In the United States, I would have one or two students in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xikou 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. Classroom Management is a skill that a teacher must try to learn and gain. This skill is a skill of managing the class, organizing the class and the classroom, having relaxed manner and maintaining discipline. As a teacher it’s not easy to have relaxed manner and maintain discipline at the same time. To achieve this goal the teacher needs to know how to balance. How...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xichang Zhen? 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. When you are a new teacher it is easy to fall into the habit of talking too much during the lesson, this can be easily done because, in reality, you are the teacher, therefore you teach. This makes complete sense from one standpoint, the students are there to learn English, and you are obviously the model of that language. However, it is essential that we remember...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuiyuesi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng 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 COULD BE DONE TO ENSURE THE EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF A CLASSROOM? For a class to function properly it necessitate the teacher to put his /her student in a confident position ,in this sense the teacher must know when to be firm with students and when to give them liberty. Classroom here refers to a room in a school or an establishment where a group of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiyi 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. Classroom management deals with role flexibility, organizing and maintaining discipline. The student’s confidence and learning effectiveness will depend on the teacher’s classroom management skills. The teacher must know when it is time to be firm or when to leave students alone. The level of firmness depends on the age of the students. Overall, it is best to keep...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mengxi 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. I think of a teacher i had back in junior high in South Africa that made my learning experience memorable and that in turn earned me a diploma for achieving a honors in my year end examinations. He spoke little and allowed us as the students to discover and solve problems partially by ourselves. So, my aspiration is to apply the same or similar principals in...  [Read more]

In the words of one-to-one pioneer, Peter Wilberg, ´One-to-one teaching is different´. http://www.oxfordtefl.com/teacher_development_courses/certificate_one _to_one_teaching(Teaching one to one: Mark Powell, oxford TEFL.) Most TEFL courses and language schools are geared towards teaching students in groups, so many teachers find it difficult to adapt there skills to one to one teaching. Many, perhaps most, of the personal and pedagogical skills we have developed as language teachers relate almost exclusively to working with groups. It has been suggested that most students prefer one to one teaching as opposed to being taught as a group. For teachers it can prove very challenging, as expectations tend to be high from the students view point, students and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yongfeng 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. According to the definition given by the psychologist David Wechster, intelligence is “the aggregate or global capacity of the individiual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with the environment”. As we know, everyone and so every child (should) react in front of a stimulus, faster or slower, and many theories have been postulated...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chouqiao 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. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT Classroom management is the organisation of the classroom setting to suit the teacher and students to have a relaxed and a friendly environment for effective teaching and learning while maintaining discipline. Arranging the class normally depends on the availability of space, the type of chairs available, age of the students, , ability levels,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XiushAn 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. ROLE OF THE TEACHER A role is a form of duty that ones perform. A teacher will adopt a teaching style that typically reflects his or her general personality in some way. If the teacher try to be someone or something she or he is not, for eight hours a day, it will soon become tedious and very hard work . No matter the the style the teacher will be applying the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShuAnghe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayannao'er Shi — Bayan Nur? 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 role of a teacher is not only to teach us but also to mold us as a person. They are the ones who share wisdom, learning, and experiences to us. We don't have any other professions if we don't have teachers. As a student, we may all have favorite teachers from our elementary, intermediate, and upper intermediate classes. And we have all our own...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wanshi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingzhou 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 today's society, education is an irrevocable tool for people who want to develop, change and renew themselves. Therefore, the importance of education is increasing day by day in all age ranges. In fact, education is the process of developing an individual's personality by changing his/her behavior positively. In addition to correcting and changing negative...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guoyingxincao Nongchang? 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. When you watch a teacher with great classroom management techniques, it can feel like magic. The truth is that classroom management can be learned. Reading about classroom management, asking other teachers what they do, and even talking with your principal about what they have observed can help. Here are things to consider for classroom management...  [Read more]