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This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned:
During the course I've further familiarized myself with ESL, TEFL, and teaching concepts. I've touched on areas of the english language that upon second glance can be extremely difficult for students to learn. Just thinking about and dealing with them will be extremely valuable in dealing with other areas of grammar.
I've also learned things that I hadn't even thought about teaching before. For example, I'd never thought about intonation and stress, yet with these students can really say a whole lot more with the language they've learned thus far. I also wasn't able to manage the classroom as well as I'd like. The chapter on this was enlightening.
Now that I know how to make lesson plans and the reasoning behind it, I'm sure my classes will be a lot more organized, making more effective use of time. Plus the multitude of ideas for fun engaging activities was a godsend.
In general, this course has allowed me to create better lessons for the different types of learners out there. It was interesting to evaluate my former self and see what I was doing right, as well as the areas in which I can improve upon.
With this course finished, as the saying goes, the flood gates have been opened. First, I intend to further study both myself and other teachers, not to criticize, but to improve my teaching abilities. I'd like to do further research into areas not covered in the course, many of which are fairly specific, as well as others such as evaluations.
While although I did some market research ahead of time to help understand the students' interests in my past volunteer job, I didn't look into common problem areas for the language/region; Next time I will. While although not directly covered in the book, by going through the course, I've come to realize how useful it is learning the mother tongue of your students, not so that you can use it in class, but so you can better understand some of the difficulties they may encounter, both language specific and just learning another language in general.
In the short-term, I plan to generate some additional lesson ideas, as well as doing some volunteer work in the local area. Even though I live in a very small city, I'm blessed that there are quite a number of international students here. I'd like to do some work with the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy or with the local high-school that the international students go to. Hopefully I'll get some practice teaching small groups and one-one sessions. Maybe I'll even make some friends in the process.
