TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language and learning English - Theme
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Education Category: Language
Ages: 4-8, 8-12, 12-16
A way for students to get to know each other in a new setting is to let them find someone who has had a specific experience. The students will ask each other predetermined questions, such as:
'Look for someone who has...'
Think about how many questions you want the students to ask each other. Think about the instructions you'll give about answering the questions, and about the questions which are culturally accepted in the country where you are teaching.
Teaching English to students who's first language is not English can be quite difficult. They may be able to answer certain questions and do well on tests about the topics that they had to learn. However, when it comes to having a regular conversation with your students or asking about something outside of their learning area, students usually have great difficulty with answering questions. In this TEDx video, Robert Guzman, a full professor at the University of Puerto Rico, explains his teaching method that he calls "teaching English without teaching English". It is a very interesting video to watch,
...Read moreTeaching English is a popular way to work abroad for a few months or even years. Although some cities are crowded with English teachers, more provincial areas still have many who are looking to improve their English.
There are always many interesting questions involved, such as one today. A woman asked if age mattered when looking for a teaching job abroad. Although you can travel (and work) at any age - and it's probably more about your mindset than anything else.. Still in some countries of for some organizations it will be a deal breaker if you are over 60...
Hopefully for those of you who are looking for opportunities to go abroad after retiring and looking for a teaching job > this interview with Donna who teaches English and travels the world at age 68 is inspiring!
Recently I read a nice blog written by "TEFL" teacher Ashley Sheets. Ashley, or Miss Sheets, shows that teaching a (foreign) language abroad also is about learning the other way around. Learning about working and living in other cultures, acquiring new competencies, getting insights in other ways of living, etc.
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Miss Ashley, Miss Sheets, Ashley teacher.....I get called a lot of things. I’ve taught English as a second or foreign language in quite a few different countries over the past seven years, and my work in international schools has given me access to students from more countries than I can remember. And these students have all had different names for me. In South Korea it was Ashley teacher (usually pronounced “Ash-uh-lee teach-uh!” by the little ones in my kindergarten class). In the sweltering Marshall Islands it was Miss Ashley. My Somali students referred to me simply, respectfully, as “Miss”.
Being in a room full of rambunctious 5 year old Koreans, all speaking their mother tongue and running amuck with the level of energy that is generally afforded to those of their age, was never something I expected in life. Nor did I ever expect to spend a year of my life teaching largely uninspired but utterly delightful island kids on a tiny piece of land the size of a football field (the same kids who couldn’t stand grammar lessons, but serenaded me with ukulele singalongs and shared their ramen/kool-aid mixtures with me). It just goes to show that if anything can be said about teaching English abroad, it’s that it is never, ever, dull!
For everything that I have ever helped a students to learn, they have taught me something in return. Regardless of age - child, teenager, adult - they all have something to teach me, and I could not possibly have chosen a profession that had more life lessons in store for me. Sometimes these lessons have been wonderful, sometimes difficult, sometimes life-affirming. When I lived in other countries and taught in their schools, I was a complete and total outsider, doing my best to swim against the current and offer up my students all the English that they could absorb during the short time they had with me. But outside of those classrooms, I was utterly immersed in learning as much as I could about the language and culture that enveloped me almost completely. I was a tiny foreign fish in a very large pond, and I always felt that way.
But teaching in English speaking countries, specifically in America and in the UK, has been a different experience altogether. Helping my little fish in the big pond that I call home, where I can speak and understand the language inside and outside of school, creates a completely different atmosphere for learning, and adds a sense of urgency for these students that just want to communicate with the world they find themselves living in.
One of my very first teaching experiences is still, to my mind, one of the most rewarding I’ve had. In my hometown in Ohio, there exists a huge population of Somali refugees that have permanently emigrated to the USA. Years ago, I served as a teaching assistant in a class of only Somali woman, friends and neighbors all and ranging in age from 16 - 80, with very little English knowledge among them. These women needed the language, not just to move toward some goal of “assimilation”, or for a big test; but to find jobs and help their children in school, to fight with their aggressive landlords, and run their small businesses.
It was the purest form of language learning, and many of the women didn’t even know how to hold a pencil. My oldest student was nearly 80-although she couldn’t confirm it, as she had no way to be entirely sure of the date and year of her birth. With a wide, toothless grin she came to class every evening and, along with her classmates, helped me realize that I couldn’t really see myself doing anything else but helping people just like her learn my language, if that’s what they wanted or needed to do.
Now I teach in a school with a huge mix of students from countries around the world. Every day, we come together, and we teach each other. I refuse to think that they are the only ones learning anything, and hopefully they are learning as much from me as I do from them. So Ashley teacher it is. Or Miss Ashley. Miss Sheets works too. But what the students call me isn’t as important as what we continue to learn from each other. We’ve got a nice thing going.
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Education Category: General
Ages: 16+
What is This Thing Called Science 4th Edition (CHALMERS) – compulsory --Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, & 4 to 11.
Critical thinking 12th edition (Moore, Brooke Noel Parker, Richard)--Chapters
Education Category: General
Ages: 8-12
Unicef stelt een gratis digitale les beschikbaar rond het thema kinderarbeid. Deze digiles informeert leerlingen uit groep 7 en 8 over kinderarbeid en manieren om kinderarbeid wereldwijd terug te dringen. De les geeft leerkrachten handvatten om kinderarbeid in de wereld en kinderrechten klassikaal te bespreken. Uiteraard is deze les ook heel behulpzaam
Education Category: General, Language
Ages: 4-8, 8-12, 12-16, 16+
Een vreemde taal leren. Het staat bijna op iedere bucketlist die je ooit zult tegenkomen. Heel tof, maar het leren ervan vergt vaak meer tijd en moeite dan men denkt. Hieronder beschrijf ik een aantal handige manieren om een taal te leren. Voordat je begint, moet je je wel
Education Category: Creative
Ages: 4-8, 8-12, 12-16
Eén speler is een beeldhouwer en krijgt de opdracht om van een groepje andere spelers een kunstwerk te maken.
Het kunstwerk stelt een actie voor, b.v. een groep mensen die aan het
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Ages: 0-4, 4-8, 8-12, 12-16, 16+
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During my volunteer work in South-Africa, I've had a couple of presentations with two other volunteers. We told children en adolescents about HIV/AIDS. I'd like to share our powerpoint presentations with the World Summary Bank.
Education Category: Games
Ages: 0-4, 4-8, 8-12, 12-16, 16+
Donated by Erwin
What do you need?
memory game(s) (multiple)
How does it work?
The students team up in groups of four. The students place the memory cards picture down on the table. The first student picks a memory card and tries to find a similar one
Education Category: Games
Ages: 0-4, 4-8, 8-12, 12-16, 16+
Donated by Marjolein
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How does it work?
This game is a way to get to know your students and to train their English pronunciation. You can play this game with
Education Category: Games
Ages: 0-4, 4-8, 8-12, 12-16, 16+
Donated by Jessica
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Education Category: Math
Ages: 0-4, 4-8
Donated by Christian
What do you need?
Tennis balls or other objects to represent the numbers
How does it work?
There are multiple ways to teach young students how to count. For the younger students it's important to involve them in your lesson. Just reading out the numbers and expect
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