Ryan Hartsfield, a recent BridgeTEFL graduate and experienced TEFL teacher, also found himself a witness to the tragedy in Japan in March 2011. He received his IDELT™ certificate after completing the October, 2011 IDELT™ course in Denver, Colorado.

In university, my initial plan was to double major in economics and Japanese and try to work for
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I am not ashamed to admit that I enjoy Star Trek. If you are like me, you may have noticed that our world today is beginning to resemble life on the Enterprise, Voyager or Deep Space 9.

We are already able to search the Internet with pictures taken with our smart phones. It is only a
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I woke up at 5:45 a.m. and started my day by hitting the snooze button twice, but when I really woke up, I ate mochi (sticky rice cake) toasted in my toaster oven and a kiwi (not toasted in my toaster oven).

I will teach my first class of the day 3rd period, on time expressions: “minutes
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I woke up at 7:30 a.m. and fought with the shower: freezing cold, warm, scalding hot, and back to freezing cold. This event mirrors my fabulous day.

I will teach my first class of the day at the university. I am currently teaching English conversational classes at UACH (Universidad Austral de Chile) to students in the agriculture department. My class typically begins
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I woke up at 6 a.m. and started my day by plugging in the hot water kettle for coffee. In Thailand, I drink a sachet of “3-in-1” instant coffee/creamer/sugar mix. It’s a far cry from the organic fresh ground coffee in the French press of home, but I’ve come to appreciate the ginseng extract in the powdered
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The CELTA training course is an intensive, month-long program. While you are in contact with trainers and ESL learners over the course of twenty days, you will also be working over the weekends of the course on lesson plans, catching up on reading, writing papers (and rewrites), and also catching up on sleep. So plan
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It’s widely accepted that student collaboration is an effective tool in the TESOL classroom. Outside of the class, more and more collaboration is done online through the use of wikis. Why not bring wikis into the classroom to create an authentic collaborative environment for your EFL students?

Why a wiki:

• Students collaborate more.
• Students think more critically about
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For the past four years my life has, to some extent, revolved around TEFL, first as a Teacher in Ukraine and now as a program advisor for BridgeTEFL.  When you believe in what you are doing, and enjoy what you are doing, “work” doesn’t feel like such a large chore.  And in that regard, the
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The images are unforgettable. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and resulting tsunami hit Japan. The vast devastation that resulted may only be matched by the destroyed lives left in its wake. Most of us watched the destruction from the safety of our homes—a great distance away from the reality of that nightmare. As TEFL
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Have you ever gone into a test feeling like you knew nothing, only to leave feeling like you knew it all? It’s common for learners to benefit from tests. This effect is called positive washback, and it has a few possible implications.

Tests help us to learn because they are typically challenging and often stressful events.
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