Richard, from our class, quit the course yesterday. He said he just wasn't feeling it. I understand where he's coming from, though I don't plan on quitting. I'm not wasting all that money I spent, though motivation is getting hard to come by. I think that this certificate will be useful in the future, should I choose to teach at some point, but so ( Read more... )

I'm now a third of the way through this program. I taught for 40 minutes on Monday and 40 minutes on Tuesday, and now I'm trying to brainstorm some ideas for my first 60 minute lesson tomorrow. I have to teach about apartment/accomodation ads, including adjectives of place, adjectives like comfortable and modern, and do some kind of dialogue ( Read more... )

The first week of class is over. They have been some of the longest four days of my life ( Read more... )

We start class at 11 every day, and for two weeks of that, I will not be finished with class until 8:45 or so. The first day went okay - basic administrative stuff. We begin teaching tomorrow, but it's for 6 minutes and only to half of the class because we split up. This morning's half of the class, I started getting a little freaked out and ( Read more... )

I've been here about 2 days now. Here's a mass e-mail I sent about my first 1.5 days here.

( I'm here )

I got this e-mail yesterday:

Dear trainee ( Read more... )

I just finished my interview for TEFL, and it went really well! I've been offered a spot in the course starting July 5th! Part of the interview was correcting a couple of sentences that the interviewer dictated, and I corrected a misuse of an apostrophe and he said I had "an impeccable command of the English language" (and this was coming from a ( Read more... )