TEFL Reviews

Unit 9 discusses about lesson planning...

This Unit was a good reminder about five main conditionals (zeros, first, second, third and mixed) and how they formed and used...

During this unit, I learned different techniques to manage students effectively in a classroom...

When doing a course it's appropriate for teachers to evaluate and assess the students' language levels and progress at different stages...

This lesson was very interesting...

The content of the unit is mostly on the main objective of a good teacher,which is to deliver the materials to the learners of the language where the same teacher teaches in two different approaches in the first and second video lessons...

There are many different teaching styles and how a teacher teaches depends on the circumstances the student and/or teacher are in...

This was a very enjoyable part of the Tesol course as it makes students/potential teachers aware of the importance of all Reading and Listening skills...

This unit briefly explains what tests/assessments are best used at certain stages in a student's English learning career...

Future tenses are in a myriad of ways more complex than past or present verbs, but this unit provides a straightforward presentation on how to instruct each type...

Unit 20 emphasised at some of the most common problem situations that teachers encounter in the classroom and ways to deal with them...

From this unit I have gotten some tips on how to deal and solve problems with teaching the first lesson , teaching large classes, or classes of different level students, when to allow students to use their native tongue and how to deal with reluctant students...

The Engage, Study and Activate methodology is what we will be using to teach English as a foreign language...

In unit 19 I learned about teaching more specialized groups...

This unit discussed making lesson plans...

Planning has never really been my strong suite...

The two videos showed how much the attitude of the teacher can effect the lesson...

In this unit, I have learned about the breakdown and detailed explanation on the Engage-Study-Activate approach in teaching English...

This unit covered many of the aspects for Classroom Management...

In this unit, I was brought back to the basic physical action realm of the English Language, revisiting the receptive learning aspects of reading and learning...

Another good unit! I have taught in various settings; simple language school, businessman, and now an accredited international school...

I feel that the classroom management lesson was more or less naturally logical to me...

In this unit I learned different activities that can be used for teaching language functions, vocabulary and grammar to ESL students such as asking students to describe their house during engage, giving them a crossword puzzle to learn the vocabulary terms for various rooms or pieces of furniture in a house during study, and then having them create a role-play about buying furniture for a new house during engage...

This unit covers Conditionals; as well as, direct and indirect speech...

Reading and listening skills both hold the same level of importance for students comprehension...

This unit focused on course book work and creating material for the class...

Being an English speaker for over 50 years, I thought I knew English grammar...

Initially Unit 4, Present Tenses, seemed somewhat intimidating...

The first class with a new group is important...

Unit 5 Managing Classes was a very important Unit for me to focus on...

In this unit we saw two very clear examples of the actual teaching practice...

From all the units referred so far, this unit took the maximum time in reading, understanding and absorbing the details provided it...

The Unit 9 has taught us a lot about the usage of different types of course books, the advantages and disadvantages of using one, the variety of probable usage of both authentic and created materials and also, the way of choosing the appropriate course book with all of its supplementing materials and the correct choice of using them differing and depending of the type of the current class and students you are dealing with in your classroom because, as stated in the Unit, not all the students groups are the same and also, not all students have the same interests and can be involved in the same topics - some groups are more demanding in the manner of vocabulary, their knowledge of English language grammar, etc...

Course books are a very emotive issue for many teachers...

I spent 12 years teaching student's with severe behavioral issues...

This unit was a brief, yet still highly informative, unit regarding the potential problems that a teacher may face during an ESL classroom environment...

Teaching productive skills can, in my opinion, be quite a challenge...

Much like the previous chapter, unit twelve covers essential language skills...

This unit cover the importance of receptive skills in the classroom...

Unit twenty was titled \"Troubleshooting\" and it covered how a teacher should properly handle some typical problems that may arise throughout one's teaching experience...