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Why take a TEFL courseCompleting a TEFL course for someone who is about to travel abroad and teach as a first time teacher is very important and in some ways essential to being a successful teacher. Throughout the course a student will develop and enhance many skills imperative to demonstrating as well as teaching proper english whether it is through lesson planning, grammar, tense skills or how to run a class taking a TEFL course will allow you to be able to effectively and efficiently help students to learn the basics or further polish the english language. Since many individuals wishing to participate in a TEFL course have no prior teaching experience, a course such as this is a great way to gain that experience well before packing up your bags, traveling across the world and stepping foot on foreign soil. Having the skill set that you develop through taking a TEFL course is something that will become invaluable when you begin your first day of teaching. The background built in the course not only gives you an advantage over many other potential teachers but it shows interested employers that you are serious about teaching and you do not simply plan to just teach for a few months and leave or worse break your contract and leave them without a teacher for an unknown amount of time. On the plus side of all of this, often teachers with a tefl certification often get a higher salary. After everything is said and done there is no downside to taking this course. Sure, it takes a fair amount of time to complete and it certainly has its challenges but the rewards are many. The skills learned in a TEFL course are bountiful, ranging from parts of speech to present tense to managing classes and past tenses the list goes on and on. At the end of the course I felt enlightened and well educated on a subject that I already believed I had a very good grasp on. Come to know, that speaking a language and actually knowing the reasons and rationale for how we speak the way we do are two completely different stories. Before taking this course I thought I knew everything about the english language, ?how hard could this possible be? I thought to myself prior to taking starting my first unit assignment and I was right, the first unit was not very difficult at all but as the units progressed, so did the level of difficulty. By the time units 6 and 8 rolled around I was struggling a fair amount. But I grew to realize, this course is not supposed to be easy, it is supposed to be effective, the creator of this course wants the students to fully encompass what you must go through to be a successful teacher. I strongly believe that this course did just that, it allowed me to learn from my mistakes and feel very accomplished at the end of the 120 hour course.
