TEFL Reviews

This unit brought me back to grade school and showed just how much I had forgotten about grammar and parts of speech...

A lesson plan is a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction, or 'learning trajectory' for a lesson...

I found this to be the most difficult unit so far...

Lesson materials can be divided into two groups; authentic and created materials...

Usually it is appropriate to give students tests throughout every course, in order to evaluate the language level of students and their progress...

Receptive and productive skills are as equally important and should both try to be included in every lesson...

The different types of transitive and intransitive phrasal verbs is very confusing and would be benefited by more examples...

This unit talked more about the management and running of a classroom, how to set up the seats, where to stand at different points of the lesson and how to build good rapport within the classroom...

In teaching scenarios, many problems may arise of different natures...

The unit covers may of the techniques that can be used when teaching students, ranging from the use of case studies, biographies, or various games adapted to accompany a teaching point...

Where it goes on to talk about time expressions, the diagram would be more clear if the text was by the arrows...

A teacher's first impression is important to set the tone of the class...

In order for a class to proceed smoothly, it is important that the teacher be in charge and have some sort of plan for what should happen when...

This is a very creative unit showing various ways to make fun,effective, and productive classes...

Unit 15 looked at different ways of evaluating and testing student levels and progress...

This unit is about the usefulness of a course book, its advantages and disadvantages...

This unit covered modal verbs, phrasal verbs, the passive voice and a brief overview of relative clauses...

This unit talks about the most common problems that teachers can encounter in the classroom and we have learned of the solutions to tacle these problems...

Past Tenses was the subject I studied in the unit six...

There were a lot of great, specific examples about passively steering the mood within the classroom, depending on the activity and the students' abilities...

This unit emphasized teaching speaking and writing, the productive skills...

The specific lesson planning information shown here taught me a far more useful flow for teaching vocabulary than I have been doing recently...

This unit provided me with a very detailed study of modal verbs and highlighted how students' attention must be drawn to certain aspects of them: i...

AN EFL teacher will not exclusively have the option of teaching in a formal classroom...

I learned about the many methodologies used in the classroom that try to imitate natural language acquisition as best as possible...

This unit talks about teaching children, beginners, and 1:1...

Unit four covers the four present tenses of the English language: the present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous tenses...

Like the other tense units, I found the future tense unit to be difficult but I recognized patterns that have shown up in the other tenses...

This unit reviewed how to write a lesson plan in a classroom setting...

This lesson has elements of my teaching principles...

The unit talked about teaching special group; the difference in style and approach that a teacher might adopt when teaching students who belong to different groups...

After going over this unit, I have realized that the future tense, although similar in nature to the present and past tense by methodology, is slightly more abstract in theory...

Unit 12 allowed me to understand the second set of skills, productive skills...

From this unit I learned that speaking and writing are both equally important in the learning of English as a second language...

This unit offers two examples of a lesson...

Student achievement and performance is directly related to teacher?s ability to motivate or demotivate them...

When teaching students English, it is important to encourage them not to use their native language in class but English instead...

This Unit provided very beneficial guidance for managing classrooms, particularly for someone who doesn't have any previous formal experience with classroom teaching...

Writing and speaking are teaching productive skills and they are equally important...

I think the biggest thing I took away from this unit was the importance for minimizing TTT, and realizing that unless dealing with an advanced class, listening to a teacher talk on end provides as much if not more of a challenge than any piece of work that might be given...