The Essential TEFL Guide

As educators, it is our responsibility to teach, assess, encourage, correct, inspire, and evaluate our students’ progress honestly. Before we can do this effectively, we must first be able to evaluate ourselves and openly reflect on the strategies and methods we use in the classroom.

In this course, we will explore the concept of self-evaluation, why it is important for TEFL teachers, and how it can be used to improve overall classroom quality.

We will examine what makes a good teacher, identify both positive and negative teaching traits, and reflect on what it truly means to be an educator.

Finally, we will look at the classroom environment and how you, as the leader, can influence it positively or negatively.

We will take a look at what makes a good and bad teacher and what we can do to improve as educators.

Observation is a key component of Self-evaluation and whether observing ourselves or others, knowing the methods that we can use are vitally important skills.

We will explore a few different activities that you can use to make use of group or pair work in your classroom and how you can use them efficiently and with purpose.

As well as this we will discuss the advantages of group and pair work and also some of the problems that may arise and how you can overcome them.

Furthermore, we will learn about how we can efficiently and effectively organize and implement pair work and group work into our classes.

Throughout the course, there will be tasks to complete and there will be a PPT guide to follow as the videos play.

Hope you enjoy it!

Here we will look at Setting up Pair or group work activities.

We will take a look at activities you can do when making use of group work in class.

Here we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of group work. TASK: Try to think of some of your own before looking at the ones I give you!

We will look at strategies to organize your class. For example, how can we have them use S-S interaction and group work to practice asking and answering?

In this course, we are going to take a look at cooperative learning.

We will discuss what co-operative learning is, why it is important, and how you can make use of this in your class. We will go into the many uses of cooperative learning and why many teachers see it as a vital part of the classroom experience.

Furthermore, we will take a look at lower-level classes and upper-level classes and how each of these levels requires a different approach to co-operative learning, and how it can be a useful classroom management and behavior management tool as well.

A look at what cooperative learning is and how we can use it in our classes.

Here we will look at building routines in our classrooms and how this can help us achieve our goals.

Why is Student-centered learning important? Here, we will try to understand it more deeply and consider why it is useful to us as educators.

When implementing cooperative learning into your class, it is vitally important to make sure you have the correct classroom setup as well.

Boards are an integral part of any class. Whether they are whiteboards, smartboards, or good old-fashioned blackboards, they are generally the centerpiece and focal point of the classroom.

In this lesson, you will learn about good and bad habits when using boards in your classrooms and we will discuss basic rules to follow when using the board for teaching.

As well as this, we will look at how to organize the board effectively and present or display information clearly. Moreover, we will cover various techniques and methods you can make use of to emphasize structures or vocabulary to help maximize student focus and information retention.

Finally, I will present some of my own board setups from my own classes and discuss how I use them for various games, strategies, methods, and classroom management.

Here we will take a look at the basic rules for using the board in your class.

Let's think about the different ways we can organize the board.

Using tables is a great way to display structures and present new sentences to classes. Here we will explore different types of tables you can make use of in your class.

Finally, let's look at the different types of board management techniques and why they are important for a classroom.

In this lesson, we will cover a variety of different techniques for presenting and learning new vocabulary in the classroom. We will look at CCQs and how to use them effectively, and we will look at how to give purposeful examples and context clues to help students understand and retain the content. Furthermore, we will go over some of these techniques in more detail and look at different ways teachers can utilize and make use of them in their classes.

Here we will cover a variety of different techniques for presenting and learning new vocabulary in the classroom.

Here we can think about the different ways we can present vocabulary to the class and how we can use multiple techniques to keep it engaging and interesting.

Think of the different ways we can use the words with the class.

In this lesson, we will cover a variety of different techniques for presenting and learning new structures in the classroom. We will look at ways to demonstrate the form of a structure via tables and look at some of the common errors made by students when using basic sentence structures.

As well as this, we will look at examples of how to show meaning and the different ways a teacher can introduce the meaning of structures to their classes. Moreover, we will discuss the ramifications of these methods and take a look at the strengths and weaknesses of each method. Finally, we will discuss basic rules to follow when teaching structures to your classes.

Here we look at structure tables, when you can use them, and how to set them up in your class.

Here we take a look at conveying meaning to your class and how we can make it easier for our students to comprehend what the structure we are teaching means.

We finish with some basic rules, hints, and tips for teaching structures.

In this lesson, we will go over the strategies and methods used by TEFL teachers to go over reading and passages in the classroom. We will look at how to build interest and motivation through context clues and pre-reading activities.

As well as this, we will break down the steps of how to successfully complete a reading exercise with your students and how we can maximize the effectiveness of your lesson.

Finally, I will go over a bunch of my most used activities and gamers for reading classes. These games are all adaptable and you can use your own ideas and variations to make them suitable for your own classes!

An extremely important and overlooked part of doing any reading. The pre-reading routine is vital to building contextual understanding and knowledge activation before attempting a reading.

The basic steps to teaching reading, for any level of class. These steps are important for building up IELTS skills in the future.

CCQs, My favourite part of reading, These are comprehension based checking questions such as 'who, what, where, how, and why'. This is where you help them build understanding and retention.

Here I share my most popular and best reading games and activities.

Using Flashcards and drilling is the bread and butter of TEFL teaching. Most schools will have a flashcard system for teachers to use while teaching vocabulary as it is the most widely used teaching method in ESL.

In this lesson, we will go over the strategies and methods used by TEFL teachers to use flashcards effectively and purposely. We will look at different types of visual aids and how we can make use of them in your classes! We will also talk about the basics of flashcard usage and how to make them a fundamental part of your teaching tool bag. As well as this we will look at my techniques for drilling and my go to games using flashcards.

Here we have a quick look at the many visual aids that are available to teachers to use with their classes.

Using real objects is an overlooked part of teaching and is especially effective with younger learners.

Let's take a look at the basics of using flashcards and how we can best make use of them in our classes.

Drilling is vital to teaching ESL, and as teachers, we need to know different techniques and methods to use with our classes.

Here we will look at some of my most popular and most used games and activities for flashcards.

Writing and creating lesson plans is one of the most basic and fundamental aspects of ESL teaching.

In this lesson, we will take a look at lesson planning and how you, the teacher, can effectively and efficiently create lesson plans for your class that are both, educational and purposeful.

We will take a look at basic rules, TEFL-defined stages, and tips for lesson planning. As well as all this, I will share my skeleton plans for younger and older level classes as a guide for your future lesson planning.

Let's look at the basic rules to follow when writing your plans.

Having specific aims and goals for each lesson is very important. A purposeful lesson plan is the most effective plan!

Let's look at my skeleton plan for younger learners.

Let's look at my skeleton plan for elementary learners.