Fernando is originally from Buenos Aires but spent the past 12 years working in the United States. As he has now returned to Argentina, he wants to become an English teacher. In his TESOL review he shares his thoughts on the center in Buenos Aires. He learned a lot regarding teaching techniques and lesson planning. He is confident that he can now lead his own classroom and is excited to start working as an English
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
From this unit I have learnt some knowledges and the teaching tips for teaching Reading and Listening. And this is the first time I got the idea of receptive and the productive skills. It helps me to improve my lesson plan skill and asks me to be really careful about the pre-teaching extent.This section teaches you to break down a sentence into all of its parts. It equates each word type as a building block with which to form sentences. I have better learned the specific types of each type, like intransitive vs transitive verbs and the rule of thumb for placement of adjectives.In this Unit I have learned to create a lesson in an appropriate way based on several factors including the level of students and the topic I want to teach that particular day. It helps me to follow a predefined structure, which obviously remains flexible according to the needs of the class.
