TEFL Prague and Abroad

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Take a look at Annie Edwards, graduate of The Language House September 2011 class, on CNN. She currently is working in South Korea and is potentially being featured for her efforts to support and help female education in the region. Take a look ireport CNN Annie Edwards

 I've always thought of teaching as being a collection of skills. To be a good EFL teacher, you need a lot of innate qualities like empathy, charisma, creativity...etc., but you also need a plethora of classroom skills. These can include error correction, eliciting and concept questioning, pace, rapport, lesson formation, and a whole host of others. Often times teachers peak in the skill department while their general knowledge of language teaching increases. Most MA programs in teaching rarely touch on skill development and only focus on increasing your general knowledge of EFL theory.  If you want to get better in the classroom, work on your skills. What I recommend while teaching is to focus on a few of them at a time. Read up on different techniques, let's say error correction for example, and practice them while you are teaching. All good teacher are skilled teachers. You can know everything about EFL methodology, write dozens of books on the subject, but that doesn'

 Just a quick tip for anyone who is interested in taking a TEFL course. If you are interested in teaching abroad in Prague or elsewhere, make sure to get into contact with recent graduates of the course you are planning on taking. There are good providers out there and there are unfortunately some lackluster ones. There's nothing wrong with a getting a list of past graduates who you can contact to check their experience, and it's not a lot to ask for from the TEFL course provider. The TEFL job market is getting a bit tighter and you need to make sure that graduates of your particular program are working afterwards and were happy with their experience. It's a big investment to make and it's the only clear way of checking the legitimacy of the course. Here's a list of our recent grads. We've provided both emails and Facebook profiles with their consent. (scroll down to the bottom of the page after clicking the link)    Recent Graduate Contacts August 201