Sonya and Travis » Rassias http://sonyaandtravis.com A story about a girl and a boy Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:38:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 We are now certified English teachers http://sonyaandtravis.com/we-are-now-certified-tesol-teachers http://sonyaandtravis.com/we-are-now-certified-tesol-teachers#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:27:17 +0000 Travis http://sonyaandtravis.com/?p=41 Over the last 5 days we completed a TESOL certificate through the Australasian Training Academy. TESOL, which stands for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, is a fundamental course which teaches the necessary skills to teach English in foreign countries.

Whilst, the course was crammed into 20 hours, with homework and presentation preparation during after hours, the course was still a lot of fun. Generally, the course was centered around teaching children, with some brief mention of adult students. One of the memorable techniques taught is the Rassias method, invented by Professor John Rassias, which teaches students a foreign language through a form of theoretical learning.

The highlights were group presentations, where we had to create and execute a 15 minute lesson for children. These lessons were in a non-English language, which gave both the student teachers and students an idea of how teaching and learning a foreign language felt.

Sonya’s group taught the class five words in Mandarin, and my group taught the class four words in Spanish. The teaching predominantly consisted of Flash-cards and various children’s games, all which the adult students seemed to enjoy immensely.

Sonya teaching the class the Mandarin word for ginger.

Travis teaching the class the Spanish word for Autumn.

More photos from the group presentations can be found here.

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