CELTA Courses - FAQs
If you're interested in teaching English as a second language to adults, you'll probably have heard of CELTA as you've been researching, but what is it and is it for you? These FAQs should answer some...
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The Benefits of Taking a CELTA Course
CELTA stands for Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults. Taking a CELTA course could be the start of an exciting teaching career travelling the world or working in the UK. Find out more...
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Launching Into Teaching Part 1 - Policies, Standards, and Textbooks
Hundreds and thousands of bright, eager teachers are about to descend upon classrooms throughout the nation. There are few pleasures greater than a first job after a long period of study and...
View ArticleEngage Learners by Integrating Funny Quizzes to Courses
Making good eLearning courses is a developing art. A funny quiz can energize almost any content and produce powerful new understanding for your learners. Integrating funny quizzes into eLearning course...
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Launching Your Teaching Career Part 4 - Finding a Mentor
Doctors and physical therapists endure grueling internships; electricians and plumbers are apprenticed as they achieve excellence; dentists and hygienists are constantly taking classes to update their...
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Teaching Workshops, Online Teachers Teaching
Most new teachers starting out in the classroom are aware that while it is important to raise academic standards of today's youth in classroom all across America, it is the professional experience and...
View ArticleTips on Using Reflective Learning Logs
When teachers collaborate, they do so with the goal of investigating additional ways to support their students' literacy development. It is even more helpful and beneficial to collaboration if each...
View ArticleFlexible In-service Training Methods
Adapt flexible ways to train teachers on the job for improving, such as computer based training, training through video, online test assessment, etc. It saves effort and more efficient .
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TEFL Training Courses – Accreditation and Certification
For a TEFL teacher about to start their TEFL teaching career, choosing the right TEFL teacher training course can be daunting. When trying to figure out the accreditation of the TEFL course, the task...
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Lesson Observation Tips
With 20-60 minutes to demonstrate your teaching skills the pressure is on! There are many factors which cannot be controlled but many more that can.
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Top 10 Most Effective Teaching Methods
If you lined up 100 teachers and asked for their Top 10 Most Effective Teaching Methods, you'd probably get 100 different lists. Here's this retired math teacher's tried and proven list.
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Top 10 Least Effective Teaching Methods
Teaching is tough enough. However, if you really want to make it hard on yourself and turn off your students, try one of these.
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Professional Development For TEFL, TESOL Teachers
It is difficult however to strictly categorise teachers under certain headings as teachers will find various aspects of each category true for them and their own particular personality types. These...
View ArticleEffectively Engaging Teachers - 5 Strategies For Successful Staff Deve
Effectively Engaging Teachers - 5 Strategies For Successful Staff Development I really enjoy working with teachers. They are creative, and most teachers absolutely love to learn.
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How to Become a Learner-Centered Trainer
Training is not about us as trainers or even the content we have to deliver. Instead it is about creating the environment and guiding the process that facilitates gaining a skill, changing an attitude,...
View ArticlePractical Considerations When Choosing a Qualitative, Quantitative, Or
Discussion of the differences between quantitative and qualitative research are numerous. Some of this discussion focuses on the epistemological differences, that is, differences in the nature and...
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HSC Schooling - Dealing With Unmotivated Teachers
This may be a controversial topic of discussion but it's a problem faced by students commonly: What if you have a 'bad' teacher at school during your all-important HSC year? Firstly, what do we mean by...
View ArticleWhat Teachers Want
What do teachers want? The answer is simple, more time. Indeed, locating that elusive time creation button has become a quest to be pursued with relentless zeal. Although management and career...
View ArticleTips in Becoming an Effective Teacher
Do you want blend in the background as just one of those mediocre teachers? Or would you rather be known as a great teacher who has touched and changed a lot of lives? Here are some tips on how you can...
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Characteristics of a Good IELTS Instructor
There seems no shortage of ideas regarding what defines a “good” teacher in the context of IELTS instruction. Teachers and teaching have become subjects of conversation by a wide range of interested...
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TEFL Course Preparation Tips
Internet forums are always abuzz with future TEFL students asking what they can do to prepare for their course. Here are some of my tips on what you can do to make sure you have an edge over your...
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The Bell Curve and Standardized Tests
I have long been a proponent of finding alternatives to standardized tests, including the use of portfolio assessment and other authentic assessments that measure real learning and not the ability to...
View ArticleBecoming an Effective ESL Teacher
Being a good ESL teacher requires more than simply speaking the language. Teachers must have a sophisticated understanding of how the English language works, then be able to teach in a lively manner...
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Training Teachers: Professional Development Strategies for Administrat
Many administrators are also master teachers. Still, instructing others to be effective educators requires a different set of skills from teaching classes yourself. And yet, as another session...
View ArticleEstablishing and Consistently Utilizing Effective Classroom Centers
If done properly, centers can bring an entirely new dynamic to your class. An opportunity for students to move from their seats where they probably sit for most of the day, and immerse themselves in an...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Master Teacher
What Makes a Master Teacher? Current thinking among educators looks toward seven key characteristics.
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How Do I Design an Effective Training Course or Training Programme?
Good research, meticulous preparation, good quality presentation material and a training instructor with the right skills and personality are only a few of the key components that make up a good,...
View ArticleHow Do You Motivate Teachers to Be More Effective? A Legitimate Scient
Research journals are filled with strategies to motivate students to increase student engagement and performance. It seems to me, an important prerequisite question isn't asked enough. That is, how do...
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Six Steps to Be a Successful Teacher
The challenge to deal with students well is one of the reasons why becoming a teacher is never boring If you're an elementary school teacher, you're dealing with children that prefer playing games to...
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The Ultimate Master Teacher
What Makes a Master Teacher? Current thinking among educators looks toward seven key characteristics. They are as follows:
View ArticleFrom Flipped to Student-Centered Classes
While more and more teachers are experimenting with the latest classroom concept, the flipped classroom, science teacher Shelly Wright believes that real learning occurs when lectures are actually...
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What Can You Learn From Teaching English Overseas?
OK, so the title of this article might have confused you a little bit. After all, when you go off teaching English overseas, YOU'RE the teacher! What could you possibly LEARN? A lot!
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What Makes a Great Teacher?
Some teachers regularly lift students' test scores, while others leave their students with below-average results year after year. This can happen right next door from each other; same grade, same...
View ArticleHow Can We Determine the Success of Training Programs?
When attempting to determine the effectiveness of any training program or training course, it is customary to embark on an evaluation process. This evaluation process often starts during the event or...
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Informal And Formal Assessment With Multi Ability Classes
Formal assessment often creates fear within the student such that it prevents them from performing at their best. Therefore, it is important for the teacher to give students practice assessment items...
View ArticleRequirements for teaching in Thailand
Qualifications for TEFL jobs, teaching English in Thailand Teaching English is a popular way to live and work in Thailand, and many are employed here, legally or otherwise, in TEFL jobs. In 2014 the...
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Professional Development Programs for Teachers: An Overview
In today's scenario, continuous training and development form the building blocks of successful teaching, irrespective of a teacher's experience. Therefore, professional development programs for...
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Mentoring the Trainee Teacher - A Supervisor's Defining of the Role
I always looked forward to being asked to supervise trainee teachers during my teaching career. This was because it forced me to look at my teaching. With the constant pressure of the job, I, like many...
View ArticlePorous and Permeable - Essential Characteristics of New Teachers
Across the nation it is becoming more and more difficult to recruit classroom teachers. It is not that we are lacking in young folks with special ideology for making a difference in the lives of...
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Assignment Clarity
As a teacher I am well aware that many students do not hear what is said but what they want or expect to hear, and many times they hear nothing at all. This is particularly true when it comes to graded...
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Researching Teacher Education and Training in England (Key Ethical and
The present teacher education and training environment in England is characterised by schools and university partnerships and school-based only frameworks. There are however an increasing body of...
View Article10 Tips To Ensure Staff Observations Improve Teaching, Learning and As
I have been considering the decision of Ofsted to stop grading individual lessons during inspections. The reason is understandable - they did not want to give the impression that the impact of...
View ArticleCoach With H.E.A.R.T.: A Coaching Philosophy That Builds Relationships
When instructional coaches are initially entrusted with the responsibility of supporting the needs of teachers through a teacher-centered, student-centered, or combination of both models, they often...
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10 Easy Tips to Communicating Across Cultures
Ten Tips for Cross Cultural Communication As our world becomes smaller through innovative technology and international business, effective cross-cultural communicating skills are the foundation to...
View ArticleReflective Teacher: Teacher Self-Development
Training v Development Teacher Training is not the same as Teacher development. Teacher Training: Devised by academic management Pre-determined training course structure Addresses ‘global’ teaching...
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Engaging The Disengaged Student
The A.C.T. Strategy Part 1 of 3 Prison. Juvenile detention centers. The mean streets of the city. All of these things and more are possibilities for kids these days. I know, because I've been there...
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5 Paradigms of Language Teacher Professional Development
Language teaching is a unique field which has seen a tremendous amount of change in recent years. Emerging technologies have fundamentally altered the language teacher's role and opened up...
View ArticleChecking Meaning & Eliciting
~~What are Concept Check Questions (CCQs)? What are Concept Check Questions? A question to lead learners to understand or demonstrate their understanding of the meaning of a new item (vocab or...
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Training Guidelines for the Novice Teachers
When a school looks for a new teacher particularly at the junior level, they create a picture of the teacher they desire. Every school has certain considerations for the teaching staffs and these...
View ArticleSpoken Discourse Analysis in the Classroom
~~It can be said that a lot of what happens during the lesson in the act of teaching is unknown by the teacher, this is because teachers are often unaware of the many of the moment-to-moment decisions...
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