Exploring the World of English Language Teaching Archives

Teaching Online Classes

The teaching practice component consists of three classroom observations supervised by a locally appointed trainer. The first two observations are formative assessments and teachers receive feedback from their trainer with …

What’s in a course?

In the quiz in the previous step we showed you some examples of the types of questions which are included in pre-course tasks for TEFL courses. There were questions about …

Tips, tips and more tips

So what are you going to do next? Has this course helped you decide to become an English language teacher? If so, are you going to do a course to …

What employers say

We’ve heard from teachers and learners but what about employers? What do they think and how do they choose teachers to work for them? Watch this video of a Director …

Live question and answer session

On Tuesday 13th December at 3.30pm (UK time) we held the last of our live Q&A sessions, about training options, jobs and career paths. You can watch a video of …

Teaching practice or no teaching practice?

In Step 6.2 Monica talked about the CELTA course she took before she started teaching and about the benefits of doing a course which had assessed teaching practice with real …

What training can you do?

Monica and Marie Therese talk about some of the different training options available. Watch the video and make a list of the different types of courses they mention. What aspect …

What’s on next week?

How are we going to end the course? We’re at the end of Week 5 now, getting ready to start the last week of the course. What will the last …

Glossary

You can see here some of the terminology used in Week 5. Published material – things written specially for ELT Coursebooks (e.g. Student’s book, Teacher’s book, CD Roms, DVDs), ebooks, …

Live event: Q and A about resources

On Wednesday 6 July at 5pm UK time we held a live question and answer session on our ExploreELT Facebook page. You can watch the recording of the session on …

Do it yourself!

Throughout the course we’ve used lots of different digital tools. We’ve used Quizlet to introduce new vocabulary and to revise new terminology, and Padlet to share links and images, and …

Get to know some digital tools

Let’s move on now to explore the exciting world of digital tools. Watch this clip from our webinar with Anna and Mary talking about some digital tools. Make a note …

Share your reviews

In the previous step we asked you to choose a resource and review it. Now we’d like you to share what you learned with other people on the course. You …

What do you think of these?

There are a great many resources available on the internet. Here is a list of websites with resources for teachers and learners. We’d like you to choose one which you …

Top tips for how to select resources

In the previous step we talked about selecting or making your own resources. Here are our top tips. Are your top tips listed here? Make sure: the resource will help …

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