Teaching English goes beyond language. As a certified English teacher, you will be responsible for creating a culturally sensitive and inclusive environment in your classroom. By doing so, you will help your students expand their worldview. After all, by teaching them the English language, you open them up to different ideas. You also allow them to interact with people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. But if you want to make a difference by teaching English, you must first get TEFL certified.
Teaching English goes beyond language. As a certified English teacher, you will be responsible for creating a culturally sensitive and inclusive environment in your classroom. By doing so, you will help your students expand their worldview. After all, by teaching them the English language, you open them up to different ideas. You also allow them to interact with people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. But if you want to make a difference by teaching English, you must first get TEFL certified.
Cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in TEFL: The role it plays in English teaching
With the world now more interconnected than ever, cultural sensitivity and inclusivity are becoming core essentials in the 21st century. Whether it’s in the workplace or the classroom, people are learning more about different cultures and how to co-exist with others who have different attitudes, practices, beliefs, and religions.
How does this translate into the world of TEFL? Since English is a universal language, it has the power to connect people from all walks of life. But to do so, they must learn to speak the same language. And to do this, you need effective and certified English teachers.
TEFL plays a major role in educating people to be more culturally sensitive and inclusive. Because of this, the TEFL industry needs English teachers who are competent and skilled in dealing with multicultural environments. And the EBC Trinity CertTESOL course is the perfect way to become one.
Get trained and certified to teach English anywhere in the world with our course. Schedule a free call with us today and we’ll get you started.
Cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in TEFL: Make a difference
What makes an effective English teacher? To be effective, an English teacher must be able to make their language learners feel safe enough to actively participate in the language learning journey. After all, it takes a joint effort from both teacher and student to make language learning successful.
Aside from this, an effective English teacher equips his or her students to use the language to communicate with people from all walks of life. As an English teacher, you don’t just teach your students grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. You also help to foster a sense of cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in them. And doing so is both a privilege and a responsibility.
Whether you plan on teaching kids, teenagers, or adults, to be an English teacher who makes a difference, you need the EBC Trinity CertTESOL course. And there are a couple of reasons why.
First, you will learn everything you need to know to be effective at teaching English. Whether you are a new teacher or a seasoned one, you will gain the skills you will need to make a career out of teaching.
Second, unlike many other TEFL courses, you will get to practise teaching. As part of the course, you will have to teach a few classes with real English language learners. You will plan your lessons, prepare materials, and manage your teaching practice sessions.
Because your students will be real English language learners, you will gain valuable experience teaching people from different cultural backgrounds. This will help you to get a feel of what it is like working with people who are native speakers of a different language and see what challenges they face as they learn English.
This will also help you greatly in your journey to becoming a teacher who knows how to create a culturally sensitive and inclusive environment.
Third, you will also get to experience what it’s like being in your students’ shoes, thanks to the Unknown Foreign Language Unit. As the name of the unit suggests, you will learn a language that is completely new to you. Mainly, this is to show you that contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to speak the first language of your students in order to teach them English.
With the Trinity CertTESOL, which is accepted and recognised by the British Council, you could teach English in France, for example. Even if you don’t speak French? Yes, absolutely! If you’re doubtful of this, don’t worry. You’ll see for yourself during your Unknown Foreign Language sessions!
Besides teaching you this important concept in TEFL, it will also give you the opportunity to understand your students on a deeper level. You will feel what it is like to go through a language-learning process yourself. You might even get ideas of what areas your students might struggle with. Overall, the unique experience will help add to the sense of cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in the classroom you work in in the future.
What are you waiting for? Get certified and equipped not just to teach English but also to make a meaningful difference in your students’ lives. Book a free call with us today and let’s get you enrolled in the next course!
Cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in TEFL: A graduate’s experience
Want to know more about how the EBC Trinity CertTESOL course will help you learn how to create a classroom environment that is culturally sensitive and inclusive? Georgia, one of our graduates, told us about her experience working with language learners during the course.
“I like learning from other people,” she said. “So it was good to work in a group and to get some feedback because as you know, working online as a teacher can be quite lonely and can be quite isolating. It was good to get other people’s take on their views and also how they approach things.”
She also shared how she liked the cultural experience. “And I also liked teaching Spanish people,” she told us. “I found that because I live in Paris…French people are very solemn and straight and (it’s) really difficult to get them to open up. So I just found that Spanish people were so engaging and so welcoming, and it was like I just felt like I was in a different world. So that was another big takeaway, the fact that (there was) group work. And I also liked the experience of Iza the trainer and also Tita. I liked that experience. I liked those two things.”
In the EBC Trinity CertTESOL course, you will be exposed to a multicultural environment as you work with and learn from fellow teacher trainees from all around the world. This is a unique opportunity to add to your strategies to foster cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in your classes.
Did Georgia’s experience inspire you? Take the course too and become an effective English teacher. Book a free call with us today and we’ll get you started.
Cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in TEFL: Enrol with EBC today
In line with cultural sensitivity and inclusivity, EBC allows its graduates to teach English all around the world. The worldwide job placement programme is free for all EBC graduates, who can enjoy lifetime access to the programme. This is a great incentive to enrol in the EBC Trinity CertTESOL course since job security is something everyone is after.
Join in on building a culturally sensitive and inclusive environment in the TEFL world. Enrol in the EBC Trinity CertTESOL course today!
