‘Intentions of the teacher need to be clear and the instructional activities sequenced according to a logic that the students can perceive.’ Jack C. Richards in 'Beyond Methods' Teachers of English should try as much as possible to choose relevant tasks for their classes for each individual lesson. Each class period should have an aim and the tasks should have an order and a pacing that will ultimately achieve these aims. If the tasks are too difficult or perceived to be suc

A wise man (well an older teacher) once told me that the time spent on planning an English lesson should never be longer than the length of the actual lesson. Maybe so, but in your first introductions to lesson planning on the Trinity CertTESOL course you can certainly expect to be spending quite a bit longer on your lesson planning. A lesson plan detailing each stage of your class may run to quite a few pages. Where every part of the lesson has an objective, with exotic

This might not seem to be an ideal marketing strategy for attracting potential trainees to Trinity CertTESOL courses such as ours. However, the fact that success is not automatically guaranteed is by itself a powerful statement of the quality of these courses. Why should turning up for a TESOL course and teaching a few hours, learning a bit of grammar and knowing a few classroom tricks automatically result in a teaching certificate? Of course nowadays there are plenty of T

Our Trinity certTESOL course from October 20th - November 14th 2014 is now underway. Our eight trainees for this course are from the U.K, U.S.A and Korea. Our trainers, Terry Goose and Liz Hunt have conducted the first input sessions that have included; lesson planning, classroom management and form and function. The trainees have also had their first unknown language session in Thai to better understand the pitfalls of learning a new language. The trainees have now all com