{"id":523,"date":"2010-02-01T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T23:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2013-12-27T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:44:48","slug":"tesol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages (TESOL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s a mouthful to have for a name of a simple diploma certification, but having taken almost 5 months to complete this diploma, I feel a bloated sense of accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yay!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have I gained much from this diploma? Indeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve learnt how to better manage my time, given the fact that this was the first time I took up evening lessons. With so much time committed to the 3-hourly sessions thrice a week, and 4 sessions of 3-hour long papers, plus 3 practicums in all (2 of which are mock ones), plus all the time spent reading that huge blue bible of pedagogy (it was great reading it &#8211; I&#8217;ve learnt a lot in terms of pedagogy!), I finally did it! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thanks go out to my mock &#8216;students&#8217;:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rok (Korea)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yuki (Japan?)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soojung (Korea)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aris (Thailand\/Vietnam?)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunny (Vietnam?)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They certainly were the friendliest group of students that I&#8217;ve encountered in my entire teaching career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And also to the lecturers:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Dr. Alan Richardson<\/li>\n<li>Peter<\/li>\n<li>Alex<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interesting teachers with a whole barrel of experiences and weight (no pun intended).<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:40px;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=523\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"verdana\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a mouthful to have for a name of a simple diploma certification, but having taken almost 5 months to complete this diploma, I feel a bloated sense of accomplishment. Yay!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailyramles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}