Key Points of The TEFL Course With ITTT
Being a tutor in a foreign land and who doesn't have a TESOL certificate is kind of cumbersome. There are things that I did as a self-declared teacher however failed to understand that I was erring.
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Husein B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
My Feedback
The course educated me quite a lot of things that I truly give thanks to the team for informing. I learned a theoretical and sensible foundation that necessitated me in having acceptable teaching methodologies at my disposal. However, there seems to have been some excessive focus on the various theories of instruction which may leave some prospective TESOL students confused and unsure which approach to implement. additionally, to this, in most cases, the theories that are in the course educated were pretty up to date which pretty much left me ready for the classroom. I additionally learned that teaching is a very practical and intuitive activity, that is best learned through direct interaction with students; it's a trial and error method of constant adaptation.
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Course Contents
Real-life teaching experience, correct theoretical implementation, and cultural exposure are fundamental components of being a well-rounded foreign language educator. In this course, I also learned matters of speech. The course clearly stated how important speech is in our daily lives as anyone's mistake would lead to having the wrong meaning after all. I was taught how to construct a simple sentence using proper grammar.
The first grammar unit is typically concerned with classifying and identifying different parts of speech. The unit also indicated that there are different types of nouns, for example, common nouns, proper nouns e.t.c. I further managed to know that descriptive words like ‘black’ are adjectives, two different types of articles; indefinite and definite, ‘doing’ words are identified as verbs, adverbs add meaning to the action. I was informed that gerunds are typically words withing added to them or rather the –ing is the gerund.
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Deeper Knowledge
The course also indicated that the behavior or personality of the teacher greatly affects how the class is going to proceed. There is a need to understand that a successful class should start with a warm-up herein referred to as the engage phase. Students must have a background of what they are supposed to learn through indicating the lesson objectives which should be clear. if a student is late, there is no need to humiliate them but rather find a friendlier way to do so as portrayed by the teacher in the second video when he said "we are late" and he was not even looking directly at the student who was late. a successful class should have a point where an exercise is done to see if the students understood it. This course also equipped me with the skills of drafting a lesson and also using different types of lesson methodologies like the straight arrow and the boomerang.
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Conclusively, the course was generally productive as stated above with the information and skills that I thought were pretty much constructive. It takes a willing teacher and willing learner to earn rich results.
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