Articles tagged ‘Lesson Preparation’

TEFL Course Teaching Practice: What’s It Like?

By Katie | January 8th, 2008 |

Like most teachers with a TEFL certificate, I have the experience of one type of course – the one I took, the CELTA – as opposed to several. What follows is my experience, as reading the experiences of a TEFL trainee would have been useful to me when making decisions about a course. [...]

“The Art Of Questioning”: How To Get A Discussion Going

By Katie | January 7th, 2008 |

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Do you have a specific strategy for getting the discussion going when your questions receive blank stares?
I came across some tips for group discussions from a Princeton handbook for teaching assistants which has some interesting, if not always totally relevant, insight on leading lively discussions.
Keep in mind that the questions given as examples are geared [...]