TESOL Planet provides the TESOL Teaching community with current TESOL teaching jobs, TESOL Teacher Training, and TESOL Information for those English speaking teachers looking to Teach English as a Second Language around the world. TESOL planet is here to help all TESOL teachers make informed choices about their TESOL teaching career.
Welcome to TESOL Planet!
Erin School of English opened in 2003 in a small Georgian building on Eden Quay overlooking the river Liffey. We were a tiny school when we started with just 4 classrooms and 3 teachers. A lot has changed in the 15 years since we opened, inside and outside of the classroom. We’ve grown from 4 classrooms to 20 and from 3 teachers to 18, teaching up to 550 students a day. When we started classroom materials and equipment meant books and desks now it means electronic whiteboards, projectors and multimedia. We have entered a new world of learning in the last decade and we would like to invite you to join us in exploring it.
We offer General English courses from every level from beginner (A1) to advanced (C1). The course programmes for each level are 12 weeks long with built-in assessment designed to monitor your progress and indicate when you are ready to move to the next level. Progress tests are held monthly and are designed to test your English skills relative to your specific level. This ensures that you are always in the right class for your development. We operate an integrated syllabus which balances work on the four key skills of speaking, reading, writing and listening with contextualised language input including grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Language is presented and skills developed in recognisable and useful communicative contexts. Our teacher training programme is designed to emphasize the importance of placing all language in the context in which it is used. Thus, helping teachers to continuously improve their skills at doing so. The course programmes are mapped from the Common European Framework of Languages with set learning
outcomes for each week and level of the course. These learning outcomes form the basis of your progress and final course report and are designed to assess and credit what you can do with English, not what you cannot.
The present teacher education and training environment in England is characterised by schools and university partnerships and school-based only frameworks. There are however
Training is not about us as trainers or even the content we have to deliver. Instead it is about creating the environment and guiding the process that facilitates
In western countries the history of teacher training and education, theories of teaching and education of teachers, in western countries, began in the first decade
~~Stand up/Sit Down: Young children enjoy this simple game. Give a command and the children respond as quickly as possible. Then give the wrong command i.e. stand up when they are already standing etc. This can be adapted into a Simon Say type game where the children respond only when the caller say
Vocabulary is: All words make up our vocabulary. All languages have words. Words come in different forms and perform different jobs. Each language will have rules over how words can change, which words work with which, how words sound. When teaching vocabulary it is important that learners know: *ï€
"I saw a documentary on NHK recently and it said that if the foreign teacher is allowed to teach and the Japanese teacher assists, then the class will go well. But
