Teaching English to Young Learners Specialty TEFL Course

I really enjoyed the videos our course instructor left in our peer participation section. SO helpful! However, I really wish this course was one week longer. Reason being is so we can have one extra week to write lesson plans. It would be great to learn from our mistakes and have an opportunity to improve and include that in the 2nd lesson plan we make.

If the rest of my specialty courses go the same way that this one did, I have no doubt that I will be a much more capable tutor/teacher when all is said and done. Kelli is a very knowledgeable individual and teacher with a lot of great feedback and teaching ability. I would not mind having her as an instructor for one of the next 3 specialty courses I'll be taking in the near future.

I had a rough go during my initial TEFL course, but Rhonda Petree renewed my faith during this TEYL course! She was amazing, participating alongside us and giving excellent encouragement and feedback. I really appreciated the extra resources she provided! I enjoyed the course content. I felt that the written tasks were helpful in applying the knowledge and challenging me to consider how I would apply it in class.

The course content was well organized and kept me engaged. The difficulty was at an appropriate level and gave me the opportunity to think critically for the assignments, without being overwhelming. Rhonda the professor was very kind, helpful and shared many resources. I would definitely take another course with her in the future.

I thought our weekly peer questions were very good and encouraged us to be open and share our opinions and experiences with each other. We also were asked to include a question for our peers to respond to that helped us to engage with each other even though we were only in class with each other for a short time.Very enjoyable course!

Teaching Young kearners has always been my passion so I could have easily enjoyed a course with much more content but having had experience with young learners previously, I would say it is a good brief introduction to the world of young learners.

Jesica has been such a great instructor for this class. She went above and beyond to make sure that all of my questions were answered. I came to her office hours and had some questions about teaching in Spain and she followed up afterwards with an email full of resources and information. She even reached out to one of her colleagues that taught in Spain to gather information that may be useful to me. She provided thoughtful feedback on my assignments and helped me to better understand the material. I wish that I could take another class with her.

Thank you very much for offering these classes online! I feel as it was more productive than I could have imagined! I really appreciate the quick responses from my instructor. My online class was interrupted by several doctors visits and a trip to the emergency room. She was very helpful in coaching me and giving me options for the future. I have tried to complete all my tasks without to much delay. The course on Young Learners has been really interesting and is an area I know very little about. This is my fourth course with the International TEFL Academy. I have enjoyed all of them! Thank you

The class was very interactive and very fun! The feedback given and interaction were very helpful. The feedback given during peer participation was helpful and very welcome. If you want to teach English in a school setting with kids, this is a great introduction to the field.

Could have been another week longer. I liked the main project assignments, but wish there was one in-between week 1 and 2. I wanted there to be an assignment that was a partial lesson plan or something like "create a Young learner activity strategy." in order to make me feel more comfortable in creating my own young learner activities. That said, I learned a ton and will take away a lot going forward.

It was very enlightening to see how different it is to teach young learners, and I appreciated the different strategies and techniques listed in the text. The instructor was very engaging and I also enjoyed the peer engagement assignments.

I think there could be more course content and/or assignments. Two weeks is so short compared for the amount of content (and potential content) compated to the 11 week certification course. The professor was great - gave good constructive criticism that will help me improve my skill set going forward. I also found the textbook to be very useful. I will keep it as a reference when I teach ESL children. I love the resources, the lesson examples, and the activity ideas!!

The course content was appropriate to the length and time. My instructor was very helpful, she provided all the information that I needed. Her comments on my assignments were very helpful. Moodle was okay, but I did not like the mobile version. It was not so user-friendly.

I didn't contact my instructor much but I am glad I received constructive criticism in my feedback. I didn't contact my instructor much but I am glad I still received constructive criticism in my feedback. What I learned will be helpful when I head abroad to South Korea later this year.

As a teacher, the class was great, but I would have liked more in-depth content about teaching English to young learners.Perhaps a longer course with more countent would have been better. I didn't feel like I learned any new content that I didn't know before taking this course.

Although the course length worked well with my schedule, I do think it would be more effective in a longer format, perhaps 3 or 4 weeks. If I had not simultaneously completed the TEFL certification course, I probably would have been a bit overwhelmed. My instructor was knowledgeable, friendly and intentional.

As an older student, I was amazed that this course and the content was as accessible as it was. Even I could use it! I used the book and the digital version. I think the ideas and samples are most helpful. I did have problems with some of the resources listed not being accessible. I would like to save (bookmark) the youtube examples and other resource materials. I emailed many questions to the professor and always received answers and encouragement. Ms. Nkouaga never made me feel stupid. She accepted my curiosity and fumbling with materials and subjects. She added great ideas to the Peer Forum that were great for the interactive parts of the course.

I wish this class was extended to learn more. I have no experience with young learners so it was sometimes difficult to fully understand everything in such a short amount of time. Jesica was a very positive instructor and was great at making sure she interacted with her students. Would love to take a class with her again!

This course was very helpful in creating lesson plans specifically for young learners, I learned a lot especially in the second chapter. I have nothing bad to say about Jesica - the instructor. She was very helpful when giving us feedback on our tasks and was always kind. I'm glad she was my instructor for this course and I would love to take another course with her.

This specialty TEFL course was helpful, I'm going to use a lot of what I've learned in this course going forward. The professor gives amazing feedback and is very helpful, which isn't something you always get with an online course. Definitely a good option.