Teaching Children English
Educating Children Will Be One of Your Most Rewarding Overseas Experiences. Learn to Have Fun as You Inspire Your Students to Learn Through Games, Activities and More!
Teaching children will be the most fun you'll ever have in a TESOL classroom if properly prepared.
Course Overview:
Children are full of energy and need to be kept busy! Most teaching positions will come with textbooks, but all other creative materials/activities will have to be provided by you. This course will teach you how to develop your own children's ESL classroom activities. This is a hands-on course with improved usage being the goal, not a pass or fail objective.
This course is divided into the four sections. The first part deals with the theory and practice of teaching children. The second part includes why we should use games in the classroom, and explains the different types of games available. The third part is a collection of songs to use in your TESOL classroom, and the final part is how to use coloring and art as an alternate effective classroom activity.
Course Content:
Studies have shown that all children, regardless of their first language, learn language in more or less the same way. A child's age determines the certain points of language acquisition they should reach, referred to as language acquisition milestones.
Teaching Children breaks down the theory behind language acquisition as it applies to teaching children English, as well as defining the verbal and physical milestones of children. The second part to the course deals with the most important aspect of teaching children - the ability to plan games!
Students learn best when they are having fun and games are fun and competitive. Most importantly, they are repetitive enough to make any type of drill/rote memorization fun. Also included are units on singing songs and how to use coloring effectively.
Course Requirements:
- 2 theory assignments
- Board game and pair work task
- Team game task
- Running game task
- Card game task
- Miscellaneous games task
- Flashcard task
- 2 game and 2 song lesson plans
- 2 song cassettes to compile
- 2 children's show videos to compile
- 7 coloring tasks
- Final course assignment
Q: How can we establish a basic language target for beginners?
A: There are two basic things to remember. One is to avoid overload, and the second is to constantly recycle the learning. Students should first be introduced to concepts that they are familiar with in their own language and then allowed to branch out to other concepts once they understand the basics.
Q: What factors determine the effectiveness of children who are new to second language acquisition?
A: The amount of time the kids are in class, how much they practice, how good the teacher is, the quality of the resources in the classroom, the home environment??all of these determine how well young learners acquire language. Unfortunately, most classes do not have qualified instructors and the resources given are inadequate.
This is where your training from Global TESOL College will make the difference. Having completed the Teaching Children Specialization course, you will be equipped to deal with the challenges presented in a classroom of young English students. Being properly prepared, you will find teaching children English to be wonderfully rewarding and fun!
