TEFL Certification-Your Completely Guide

        After reading the book called Teaching English to Children, and taking TEFL training program. I think a lot on the following topics, one is the arrangement of the classroom, the other is the topic-based task.

        My students are at the ages of 10-11. I am not only the English teacher but also their head teacher, which we call home room teacher in our school. I work on the classroom except when I have a meeting or when I have class next door. My students need to be observed all the time, or they would behave really bad in other teachers’ classes. Some of them are easy to be inattentive or talk in class.

        Right now, I arrange the seats in five rows. All of the students face to the board, so the teachers could see every student’s face. But it is not suitable for pair work. Students need time to look for a partner, because they change rows and lines every week. This condition frustrated me.

        If the students behave well, I’d like to arrange the desks similar like Arrangement A on page 13(Teaching English to Children). Also from what I learned in TEFL class. They sit in groups and they have desk-mates, so they can work by individual, in pairs   or in groups. I also can use the space in the middle of the classroom for playing games, acting out dialogues or presenting a lecture. It is available for all of the student concentrate on what we are doing in the middle and involve in the activities.

        I agree with the student-centered class. I love giving them tasks need to work in groups. The topic-based work is always used in my class. Last month, we do a project on the topic of ‘Recommendation of E-product’ after learning E-age. Students worked in a three people group. They discussed what they wanted to recommend, who they wanted to recommend and the reason. They use keynote to make a PPT, and delivered a speech. Right now, we are doing a project on the topic ‘How do we save the Earth’ after leaning This is our Earth. I want my students to think more to relate the text book with reality. That is why we learn language.

        The new point I get from TEFL training course is how to carry out Friends topic. The Interpersonal relation problem is always essential between people. My students are in their early puberty. Some of them are sentimental or easy to be irritated. I planned to design 2 lessons on this topic next time with the guide in the book. I am sure that my students will get benefit from the lessons.

        I read and think, I get a lot from the book. I learned and think, I get a lot from the TEFL program. To be a gentle teacher, to organize my class, to train the students’ language skills, to plan my lessons. As an idiom saying in China: Teaching is learning. I need to learn more to be a better teacher. I have a dream like everyone does. I hope that I am not only good at teaching grammar and vocabulary in English, I can also teach my student to think, to communicate with the language. That is the purpose on language learning. And the purpose of TEFL class.

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