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pillowfort + TEFL
hey! if you wanna join pillowfort (the DW/Tumblr mix), you can get on the waiting list here:
https://mailchi.mp/20a35b1a80af/ai9p4sin4u
also i completed that 120-hour TEFL in just under 7 hours; now i get to wait "up to a week" for my assignment to be graded and if i pass, i'll be the owner of a teaching certificate.
TEFL was essentially reading a book, meant for people who haven't been in school for a REALLY long time and who haven't studied a foreign language, then answering multiple choice questions until the very end where you submit a sample lesson plan + justification for what you put in the plan. most of the stuff to be "learnt" were common sense items as you can see above, and/or all i had to do was think back on the various lessons i’ve had in language classes to realize what they were talking about. the hardest stuff was remembering the TERMINOLOGY - every chapter felt like it threw 10 new abbreviations, or 10 english test names etc, and then i was supposed to remember them and what they were good for ("the IELTS is an American test meant for people who... blah blah"). i still for example don't really remember the names of each type of lesson plan ("PPP", "TTT", "Audio-Lingual"...) or of English tenses ("present continuous"...). they’re all standard terms though so googling them brought clearer info than what was actually taught to me in the TEFL instructions i think. the other problem was essentially that due to their vague wording on the quizzes it was pretty confusing at times.
otherwise, not a problem at all. i think the 120-hour TEFL can actually be done in 5-6 hours, because i barely failed a couple quizzes and had to retake them + was slow in writing my final assignment + tended to eat while sitting at the computer. all in all, if you need a job and/or want to boost your resume, i definitely recommend doing this as it's a piece of cake. i bought the 300-hour package that has extra stuff in it like "toddler's english" and "business english" so i'll be working on those later on, though i've heard the 120-hour course alone suffices for work stuff. i bought mine from "i-to-i" on a sale so it cost around $200 (as opposed to the normal price of around $600) so keep an eye out.
https://mailchi.mp/20a35b1a80af/ai9p4sin4u
also i completed that 120-hour TEFL in just under 7 hours; now i get to wait "up to a week" for my assignment to be graded and if i pass, i'll be the owner of a teaching certificate.
TEFL was essentially reading a book, meant for people who haven't been in school for a REALLY long time and who haven't studied a foreign language, then answering multiple choice questions until the very end where you submit a sample lesson plan + justification for what you put in the plan. most of the stuff to be "learnt" were common sense items as you can see above, and/or all i had to do was think back on the various lessons i’ve had in language classes to realize what they were talking about. the hardest stuff was remembering the TERMINOLOGY - every chapter felt like it threw 10 new abbreviations, or 10 english test names etc, and then i was supposed to remember them and what they were good for ("the IELTS is an American test meant for people who... blah blah"). i still for example don't really remember the names of each type of lesson plan ("PPP", "TTT", "Audio-Lingual"...) or of English tenses ("present continuous"...). they’re all standard terms though so googling them brought clearer info than what was actually taught to me in the TEFL instructions i think. the other problem was essentially that due to their vague wording on the quizzes it was pretty confusing at times.
otherwise, not a problem at all. i think the 120-hour TEFL can actually be done in 5-6 hours, because i barely failed a couple quizzes and had to retake them + was slow in writing my final assignment + tended to eat while sitting at the computer. all in all, if you need a job and/or want to boost your resume, i definitely recommend doing this as it's a piece of cake. i bought the 300-hour package that has extra stuff in it like "toddler's english" and "business english" so i'll be working on those later on, though i've heard the 120-hour course alone suffices for work stuff. i bought mine from "i-to-i" on a sale so it cost around $200 (as opposed to the normal price of around $600) so keep an eye out.