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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.
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.
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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 ATA
Global TESOL 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! |