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pennylane
Joined: 18 Oct 2004
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 Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:47 am Post subject: The TESOL Course - Im a tad bit confused... |
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The Global TESOL is NOT well regarded � verging on a joke to some. REALLY- believe me.
It is just a marketing scam that has no legitimacy to anyone that knows
I have had many opposing views on whether or not the TESOL courses are worth doing. The one I am considering doing is run by Teach International and is about $1,595 so naturally, I want to check whether it is worth it before a poor student like myself spends that kind of money...
Is the Trinity course (which is 500 more i think) worth doing instead??
I would really like to hear some more feedback concerning this. Thank you VERY MUCH to everyone who answered my questions in the previous thread ...it helped a lot!! Smile
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lily
Joined: 02 Aug 2004
Posts: 200
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Hi Pennylane,
My bf and I did the Teach Int'l course in NZ - very worth while!!
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My g/f and I did the Teach Int'l course in New Zealand. It sounds just the same, and was also amazingly expensive. However, it was a very good course, and they really cram in the information. It doesn't prepare you for everything, but then nothing can. They give you a huge manual - bring it with you when you come, it's got lots of good ideas in it.
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I, like you, was very worried how I would be in the classroom, nervous etc - you name it, I was it. We even had TV camera's in our first lesson - which we were told about 1 day in advance! I almost left that night. As it is, we now only have 2 months of a 12 month contract to go. Smile lots, and have fun.
At the end of the Teach Int'l course they had me believing I could do this job, along with the other 14 participants. Our instructors were wonderful - very encouraging, knowledgable, lively and very good teachers. Most participants favourite part of the course was when one of the instructors did a demonstration lesson for "beginner" students - we were the students and she taught us coffee, tea, milk and something else - in JAPANESE! Demonstrated very well that it can be done. We also had to do a group lesson. In small groups (3) we planned, prepared and presented a lesson to the other participants in the course. Very good for the self-esteem. Teach Int'l is worthwhile, but maybe Trinity is as well. Someone else will have to answer that.
Hope this helps,
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ContemporaryDog
Joined: 21 May 2003
Posts: 1477
Location: Wuhan, China
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| I had something similar to that on my 'CELTA' course. Our tutor gave us a beginner's japanese lesson, teaching beer, wine, orange juice, hello, how are you... Great fun... |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 1797
Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject: Greetings! [in Japanese] |
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The Trinity Cert in TESOL course that I did at my local adult education centre back in the UK three years ago had several lessons where we trainees were allegedly in a position of having a foreign language taught to us in that language with no English involved.
HOWEVER, our two tutors believed that none of us knew any Japanese, only for them to discover that I was doing an evening course in Japanese at the SAME centre! My fellow trainees had a good laugh when I told everybody. Hence, I had an "advantage" - for a few hours at least... |
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