TEFL cert in one weekend!?!

Haha I actually did that "intensive" weekend course about three years ago when I was just getting into teaching. It gave me a taste for teaching but honestly I had more questions than answers after that "intensive" course. I knew that I had to learn a lot more to be a good teacher.

At least I focused on doing more study so I did a grammar course and then an online one and now doing a masters. That "intensive" weekend is just a taster, more like a scam! 😠

I'm thinking of doing a course via SMS - should be nice and simple - each message no more than 160 characters.

clivehawkins wrote:I'm thinking of doing a course via SMS - should be nice and simple - each message no more than 160 characters.

gud idea 1st lesn
how 2 rite w/ fewst
ltrs psibl thn on 2
Y vowels R bad!
lol

Haha try writing a paper in that! Page 1 of 3000!

And with thouse autamatic spelling tools your shore to get all the smellings rite two!

Chcek out tihs artcile. looks like speling dosen't raelly mater:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Eric wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

That's fantastic and so true I can read that whole thing no problem. i probably wouldn't evenb have noticed there was something wrong had you not told me 😛

emile wrote:Check out this link:

http://www.weekendtefl.com/

What's next? 1hourtefl.com?

in 30 minutes or you money back!

You can always buy one if that's too much effort. I know a few teachers who have Thai specials.

I got mine off a guy in a pub. said it was his sister's but she didn't need it any more. Hardly used and accepted in most good schools.
Bargain.

Eric wrote:Chcek out tihs artcile. looks like speling dosen't raelly mater:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

That just goes to prove that proof reading and correcting texts (which I get to do quite a lot) is really hard!

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

If you've taught writing to Arabic students before, the above text may look frighteningly familiar.