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TEFL USA

 

Alabama
The Unit 1 constitutes a unit of introduction of the course about teaching English to young learners. It clearly describes how the course works, the purposes and the objectives of the course. It expla
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Alaska
the different types of classes need different methods of teaching skills. for beginners class, it would be helpful to think in terms of categories of beginner, do not over correct them. for children,
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Arizona
This unit focuses entirely on lesson planning, and its effectiveness. Generally, lesson planning is good because it keeps you organized and helps you obtain the objective you've set for your students
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Arkansas
The unit material was about the teaching resources available in the classroom in addition to a textbook. These included whiteboard, overhead projector, visual aids, worksheets and work cards, cassette
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California
Course books and other materials provided are a great tool for teachers.Some love it and other despise it.Official course books and materials and its advantages in using them for they are real and the
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Colorado
In this unit we tackle about methods of teaching English vocabulary, grammar and functions to students. When teaching vocabulary one of the main problem is selecting which word to teach. However, th
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Connecticut
This unit discussed conditionals and reported speech. Conditionals are sentences with the word "if" concerning past, present, and future possibilities. Teaching the students how to properly breakdown
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Delaware
This unit was helpful in delineating how to break up or group vocabulary in oder to create a contextually relevant lesson. I do usually use a theme like "To invite" or "To apologise" as a route to le
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Florida
I have learnt about the qualities that a good teacher and a good learner possess. Also, I have acquired a deep understanding about how the language levels of a student are being distinguished. Truly s
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Georgia
Evaluation is an ongoing, iterative process centered around the teacher's ability to remain cognizant of the students' progress. The tools presented in this Unit are helpful in quantifying or qualifyi
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Hawaii
Teachers should use and assume a variety of rolls in the classroom in order to effectively help the students learn. The teacher should also make sure to cater the lesson and the interactions to the ex
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Idaho
In this unit, I have learnt the definition of seven different kinds of future tenses and how to use them. the future simple: I will call you later. The future continuous: I will be getting ready to co
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Illinois
This unit was so helpful. What I learnt from this unit is how to be a good teacher for your students and what behavior have with students to have a better class and the students participate well. Like
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Indiana
In this unit we learnt about phonology and pronouciation. Phonology is considered as análisis the physical properties of the sounds. For correct pronunciation students need to be familiar with differ
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Iowa
Unit Eleven covered the topics of receptive skills, and how they are taught, based on skill level. I learned all about the different learning curves of students, based off of their knowledge, and int
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Kansas
This unit taught me about conditionals, reported speech and direct speech. I learnt about the conditionals which are, zero, first, second, third, and mixed conditionals. I was taught the differences b
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Kentucky
In this unit i learned about the modal verbs, which was more of a review, but also a refresher because i had forgotten all about some of them. This was a very helpful unit, it refreshed my memory on t
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Louisiana
The unit three lesson has been great! The unit has many practical techniques that I can use in class such as alphabet relay, sevens, word linking, anagrams, information search, and more. Anytime I am
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Maine
In this unit I learnt the main types of ESA methodology. We can divide it into 3 stages: Engage, Study, Activity. The main purpose of the Engage stage is to get students think and talk in English. We
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Maryland
The lesson about reluctant students was very helpful to know to teach them. When I first joined ESL course, I was one of the reluctant students who was shy and dealing with cultural differences in the
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Massachusetts
Unit 11 is about the first part of important basic skills in English language as well as in any language which is receptive skills. Under this receptive skills we have reading and listening. In this I
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Michigan
During our teaching period, we might have various classes differing by the age of the learners or their purpose such as young beginners and business English learners. Teachers might find it so differe
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Minnesota
From unit 1, I learned that teachers must be passionate and understanding that what they do. They must be available and intervene when necessary. They must be kind and have knowledge at what they're t
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Mississippi
This unit provides another reference for lesson outlines, but dealing with general topics, such as vocabulary, grammatical structures, and language functions. The lesson formats from previous units ca
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Missouri
This was the last unit of the trainning and it was the shortest one also. After talking in details about all other features of an English class plan, this one spoke about some of the most common probl
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Montana
I've learnt what abilities and skills a good teacher must have, so what an interested and willing to learn student will expect from me as a teacher. I've learnt all the roles a teacher can and must ha
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Nebraska
Unit 8 is all about Future Tense. Tense that will happen in the future timeline. Some of the present tenses can be used to express something that happens in future or will be happening in the future.
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Nevada
Every English teacher should be concerned about the quality of teaching! Besides having good qualities, it is necessary to be attentive to several factors about students such as, ages, culture, level
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New Hampshire
This unit's focus is on how to approach and teach special groups.those special groups are: the beginner (the false beginner ,the young beginner, the adult beginner,the beginner without roman alphabet)
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New Jersey
Interesting unit about authentic and created materials that we can use in the classroom. There are many examples of created materials which will help experienced and non so experienced teachers. We ha
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New Mexico
Future tenses include future simple, future continuous, going to future, future perfect, future perfect continuous. Future simple includes predictions, promises, or facts. Future continuous refers to
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New York
In this unit i've learnt that conditionals contain a condition that has to be met or had to have been met. there are 5 types of conditionals. Zero conditional refers to actions or facts that are irref
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North Carolina
When teaching new vocabulary we need to take into consideration several factors for the better learning of our students. The meaning, the usage, the pronunciation and spelling, the function on a sente
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North Dakota
I personally think lesson planning is a great tool every teacher should endeavor to have. Reading from units and with some experience I have teaching, it is most useful to have a lesson plan because i
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Ohio
Unit nine discusses the advantages of creating a lesson plan for each class to be taught. As previously expressed in other chapters it highlights the importance of the teacher's ability to be flexible
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Oklahoma
It is great to know that ESA lesson has been created adapting several features from previous theories, methods, and technics. For example, ESA has recruited the idea of three stages of a lesson from S
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Oregon
This unit is still something difficult since I had to identify ESA pattern. I'm getting use to selecting the best pattern to use.The unit explained to how to effectively improve students receptive sk
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Pennsylvania
This section sets the ground work for classes by describing the roles and basic dynamics of classrooms of all levels. It establishes the role of teacher; role model, proctor, entertainer, encourager,
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Rhode Island
Unit 16 presents the nature of conditionals and reported language as well as their use and application to actual life. This unit is actually a direct application on what was taught and learned from th
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South Carolina
As I have previously reviewed, verb and the consept how to use it in a grammaticly correct way builds up the base of the conveying and expressing some sertain idea or thought. Past tenses should deepe
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Tennessee
In this unit, I felt I learned a lot of unique and efficient ways to help students learn the language content. Learning about the ESA methodology made me realize the familiarity of the structure when
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Texas
When defined within an educational setting, assessment, evaluation, and testing are all used to measure how much of the assigned materials students are mastering, how well students are learning the ma
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Utah
Much like receptive skills, productive skills (speaking and writing) ensure a balanced way to teach a language. Both speaking and writing require the teacher to have creative topics and fun ways to te
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Vermont
Useful unit that helps the educator understand the physical space and content of the teaching space and how to use it to obtain certain results. Its also a good resource to consult when issues arise a
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Virginia
This unit was one of the best and effective units. I learned a lot on this unit. I saw the differences between first video and second video. The first video the teacher didn’t have good teaching pla
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Washington
Unit 16 is an expansion on the English tenses, focusing on past tense in this topic. We learn about the past tenses and the difference between past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous an
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West Virginia
Reading and Listen skills are very important for learning vocabulary and understanding of words. In my opinion the best way to increase their vocabulary and understanding of words. It’s always best
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Wisconsin
This unit was incredibly helpful to go over the specifics of the different aspects of the English language we will be presented with. I especially appreciated the different factors that must go into t
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Wyoming
In this unit I have learned more aspects of the complicated topic of the pronunciation and the phonology. Many learners have a hard time polishing their pronunciation, that is why us as teachers sho
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