Articles tagged ‘TEFL Certification’
ESL Empathy
By Katie | April 30th, 2007 |
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Do I have to have had your experience to be able to empathize with you? I came across this totally unrelated article in the International Herald Tribune and almost immediately connected it – of course! – to teaching.
My first instinct was to disagree with the author. While putting yourself in someone else’s shoes [...]
What Should I Tell Students About My Training?
By Katie | April 29th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
It can be an awkward moment when students want to know how you’ve been trained to teach them. Native speaker EFL teachers are hired to do work that is substantially different from that of university professors or, say, elementary school reading teachers, and as such, I don’t think a four-week intensive training [...]
Interview With A Recent TEFL Course Graduate, Kineta In Wisconsin
By Katie | April 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Kineta Abraham recently completed an intensive TEFL course at the Wisconsin English as a Second Language Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, which included 130 hours of instruction as well as real teaching practice. I learned about Kineta’s course when I saw her ESL Base TEFL Trainee Course Diary – this is where she chronicled her [...]
Interview With A Recent TEFL Course Graduate, Kineta In Wisconsin (Part 2)
By Katie | April 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
In Part 1, Kineta described how her TEFL course changed her outlook on teaching. Continue here to find out more about the challenges and rewards as well as her advice for others.
What was the most difficult part of the course?
Kineta cites “getting and more importantly staying organized” as the most challenging aspect of the [...]
Why Go To Grad School?
By Katie | April 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tedkarma, creator of TEFL Bootcamp free online TEFL training, has contributed his insight and advice to the TEFL Logue before, most recently on the topic of using business experience to help you in TEFL.
Tedkarma has an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology (learning theory) and describes it as “…invaluable - on a deeper level - in terms [...]
Why Go To Grad School? Part 2
By Katie | April 2nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
In Part 1, Tedkarma set the stage and outlined the reasons for getting an advanced degree in the field of English language learning. Read on to get a more in-depth view of how a Master’s degree will relate to professionalism, opportunity and personal philosophy.
Professionalism: We all know that most jobs in EFL offer the [...]
Interview With Kate, Recent Trinity Cert TESOL Graduate In England
By Katie | March 30th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Kate Sutcliffe, who recently completed a Trinity Cert TESOL in Woking, England, and took the time to do an email interview about her experience for the TEFL Logue. You can read and subscribe to her ESL Base TEFL Course Diary Blog here, where she details her thoughts and experiences during the course and also [...]
Interview With Kate, Recent Trinity Cert TESOL Graduate In England, Part 2
By Katie | March 29th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
After finding out why Kate chose the course she did and how it affected her outlook and challenged her in Part 1, I asked her for her opinion on the difference between doing a course at home and abroad – perhaps a difficult question for anyone to answer because of course most people will do [...]
Interview With Hilal, A Recent CELTA Graduate In Istanbul (Part 2)
By Katie | March 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hilal reports how the CELTA has changed her outlook on teaching:
“When I was in university, I would always wonder “when is this class going to end?” However, the CELTA helped me realise that the world is changing and that the classical teaching style is now history. Classes have become student oriented and teaching students has [...]
Interview With Hilal, Recent CELTA Graduate In Istanbul
By Katie | March 27th, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Hilal Hastaoglu lives in Istanbul and recently completed an intensive CELTA course; she was kind enough to do an email interview for the TEFL Logue. (You can get her story and thoughts first hand by subscribing to her ESL Base TEFL Course Diary) In the near future, I hope to be able to offer [...]
