TEFL Reviews

As an ESL teacher, I believe that assessing and testing students is somehow rewarding...

This unit taught me that while there is no one way to approach a lesson, there are certain strategies and tools that can be used to promote the active engagement of students in the classroom...

Unit 2 was beneficial to me for 3 reasons...

There was quite a bit of information I learned from the video and text of this unit...

How one motivates and inspires students to learn confidently and improve their English language skills, will draw from a very important strategy; classroom management...

A very technical unit with a lot of food for thought particularly regarding phrasal verbs as they are multi-word verbs and obviously something that I use continually in ordinary conversations but not something I consciously recognised until I studied them in this module...

This unit focuses on common problems situations and troubleshooting that teachers can encounter in the classroom...

I found this unit a little difficult to understand upon the first read through but with the second and third reads it became a little clearer as to the objective of it...

This unit gave a brief overview of what makes a good teacher that can capture student's attention and what makes a good and willing learner...

In this unit i have learnt: 1) Often teacher has to create his/her own materials to replace or supplement the course book...

In this unit, it focused on the importance of speaking and writing...

Unit 9 delves into Lesson Planning: What a lesson plan is, how to construct a good one, and samples of evaluation charts and lesson plans are given...

There are many techniques and methods that can used to teach a class of students...

Class management plays a crucial role in how effective our teaching will be and how beneficial to the student...

Teaching resources often found in classrooms and study centers: white/blackboard, interactive whiteboard, overhead projector, visual aids, worksheets and work cards, cassette recorder, CD player, videos and DVDs, video camera, dictionaries, course books, resource books, photocopier, computers and online resources...

This unit presents the teaching of productive skills—speaking and writing...

In this unit, the typical characteristics of good teachers/students are explained...

pronunciation could be very hard to teach to students...

In this unit, we covered conditionals and indirect speech...

This unit contained the structure and usage of present tense forms...

During the teaching activity, teacher need to know the feedback from the class, so they need to evaluate the students level and progress...

This unit was particularly useful , as it presented lots of examples of how to plan a lesson and what teaching themes to use...

Learning about the different methods was quite interesting, it is helpful to see all the different methods that can be used...

In this chapter, I’ve grasped some useful information concerning evaluation and testing...

In Unit 17 I was able to see the various tools teachers utilize in order to lead a successful lesson and how each on personally helps the students...

Much of this unit was familiar from my training and experience as an elementary school teacher, but it was helpful to be refreshed by the information, as it has been a few years since I have taught...

Using course books in a balanced way is very important...

I am personally taking away many helpful tips and methods concerning how to manage classes...

This unit is an overview to what we will find and learn in this course...

This section describes the 4 aspects of the present tense: simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous...

Teaching vocabulary...

This unit gave me a crash course in lesson planning which will be one of the most important tasks for myself as an inexperienced teacher...

This unit covers lesson planning while showing examples of lesson plans...

I learned here how to best gear subjects of lesson to be easily absorbed through reading and listening...

From unit 11, I learnt about four basic language learning skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing and they are equally important...

It is interesting to read about those teachers who don't particularly like tests and claim to know their students' language abilities because they observe them regularly and for extended periods of time...

Few things I learned from this chapter is; how difficult it is to pronunciation English words and understand the meaning of the sentence based on which word is being stressed in the sentence...

Unit two provided me with a lot of information I did not have before starting this course...

This lesson talked about the different types of English learners...

There are a number of methods of lesson planning, each with its own merits...