Designed for your support, the Footprints Teacher's Lounge is a comprehensive collection of information that will help you get started for your first class and will be useful when you're lesson planning in every ESL class from here on.
Your skills as a native English speaker are the foundation of your teaching. Mix in compassion, patience, sincerity and preparation and you are ready for any ESL class.
If you take the time to ensure you are prepared, your classes will be more enjoyable for you and your students.
Footprints Teachers have ongoing support throughout the duration of their contracts and they get monthly newsletters with Hints, Tips, Tricks and Ideas to help make teaching fun and fulfilling.
Become a Footprints teacher to make sure you have all the support to be the best teacher possible.
Prepare Yourself To Teach
Be creative and have fun!
Take a TEFL/TESL course.
Read some suggested books.
Make lesson plans.
Be honest and passionate.
Teaching Tips
Work on Phonics Early - One of the more important elements of most kindergarten programs is teaching English phonics. Sounds made in English are very different than sounds made in other languages, find out where these trouble spots might arise and work on drills to help facilitate growth in these areas. Pronunciation is important for ALL LEARNERS no matter how advanced they are. Start with the basics.
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“I'd like to start off by saying that my choice to teach abroad in Korea was one I know I will never regret! Footprints made it very easy to communicate with the school regarding details of where I'd be living and what I'd be teaching as well as taking care of my flight information. At the airport the morning we left, my boyfriend and I encountered overweight bags and extremely long lines at security, and we missed our flight by literally one minute. As we watched our plane pull from the gate, we just about lost our minds and any hope that we'd make the long journey we'd been planning for so long. We made one simple phone call to the travel agent, Claus, that Footprints set us up with. It was 6AM where he was on a Monday morning when we called in a panic. He said, "Stay by your phone," and we knew that he would fix this fiasco for us. Luckily, while Claus was searching for a solution, a woman from United Airlines was able to book us on another flight so that we would make our connection out of the U.S. to Seoul. We would like to thank Claus and Laina at Footprints for all their help in getting us to Korea!
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