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Many people have either personal or professional commitments
that do not allow them to take the full 4-week residential
course. We therefore offer a flexible TEFL / TESOL course
option of distance learning combined with two weeks
face-to-face instruction.
The final certificate awarded is the same certificate trainees
receive on the 4-week intensive course. The feature of the
hybrid course is the flexibility it offers teacher trainees.
You can work at your own pace on the distance-learning
element,
allowing you the time to read and absorb the materials before
starting the 2-week face-to-face tutorial session.
During
the online phase you work on a number of modules which we
can send to you by post on paper, CD-ROM, or emailed to
you. The distance-learning component requires an estimated
total of 70-90 hours of study. Normally trainees take between
two and three months to complete this TEFL / TESOL online
phase, although it varies from person to person. You will
be assigned
a personal tutor who will guide you through the modules and
provide you with feedback on each of the tasks you are required
to do.
You can join and start the
hybrid TEFL / TESOL course at any time you like.
You have as long as you like to complete the
distance-learning phase. Once this is completed you tell
us which two weeks of which residential course you want to
use
for your teaching practice. We will do our utmost to satisfy
your requirements. You have the unparalleled opportunity
to choose between Prague and Barcelona as your required
location for the residential part of
your course.
>> Who Can Apply
To be accepted onto the course you don’t
need to have prior teaching experience or teaching qualifications.
This
is an initial teaching qualification in the specialized field
of TEFL / TESOL. If you do not hold a univerity degree, you
should hold qualifications for entry to tertiary level education
(e.g. A levels, High School diploma, etc), although exceptions
are made with those candidates who demonstrate their suitability
for the course through the questionnaire questions in the
application form. Non-native English speakers will be accepted
onto the
course on equal terms to native English language speakers
provided that they demonstrate a high command of the language.
Applicants
need to be at least 18 years old.
>>Pre-course task
Once you have been accepted on the TEFL / TESOL course
and you have paid your deposit we will send you a pre-course
task consisting of a grammar workbook covering the
most essential aspects of the grammar of English
with corresponding exercises so you can practice in preparation
for the course.
Here is some recommended literature so you take full advantage
of the course:
- The Practice of English Language Teaching,
J Harmer, Longman (this is the set book for the course)
- Learning Teaching, J Scrivener, Heinemann
- Teaching English Pronunciation, J Kenworthy, Longman
Please
note this is merely a list of recommended reading for those
willing to start ahead. The different concepts
in the recommended literature will be introduced and revisited
often during the course.
>>Arrival and Orientation
On arrival, you will be given a
welcome pack consisting
of all sorts of practical information on how to get about
in
the city (map, public transport timetables, places of interest,
local doctors who speak English, hairdressers, restaurants
and shops where English is spoken, essential and emergency
telephone numbers, cell phone information, etc). Plus our
student coordinator will always be there to help you with
their extensive local knowledge.
>>A Challenging Course
Due to the flexibility inbuilt in the
hybrid TEFL / TESOL course you will be able to work
at your pace and in your
own time. However, we are highly
committed to producing the best teachers possible and we
will be working with you so
that your teaching meets the highest of standards. This means that during
residential block of the course you will be mainly concerned
with lesson planning and teaching
practice. So, time for sightseeing may be limited. Therefore we recommend
you leave any plans concerning extensive tourism until
after the course. Having
said this it is our experience that if you follow our recommendations you
will be able to enjoy both the course and the city life.
Very often trainees comment
that despite the hard work they found the
TEFL / TESOL training course to be an invaluably challenging and rewarding
learning experience.
>>Weekly Schedule
This will normally consist of
lesson planning sessions where with the assistance and
guidance of your tutor you
will prepare lessons for teaching practice.
Then you will teach a lesson to real students where
as well as teaching yourself you will observe other trainees teach English
as a foreign language. This
will allow you to learn from peers. After
teaching practice a critique session is
held where both trainees and trainer sit together, exchange constructive
criticism and reflect on the different lessons they observed. The
onus is on reflection as we believe this to be the
most important component of the course. What really matters, more than a
good performance even, is for you to be able
to reflect
on your own and others’ teaching experience and learn from it.
10.00 am – 12.30 pm: Input
sessions
12.30 pm – 13.30 pm: Lunch
13.30 pm – 15.00 pm: Input sessions
15.15 pm – 16.30 pm: preparation for teaching practice
16.30 pm – 18.00 pm: Teaching practice
18.00 pm – 19.00 pm: Critique session
>>Course
Outline and Contents
The TEFL / TESOL course consists of both
theory lessons and teaching practice. In the theory lessons an experienced
teacher trainer will introduce you a number of different
methodologies and approaches in TEFL / TESOL .In these theory
lessons, called ‘input sessions’, you will also
learn about the grammar and phonology/pronunciation of English
as well as reflect on ways of reconciling theory and methodological
principles with day-to-day classroom practice. Special
workshops will also be run to give you an insight into teaching
young
learners and teaching Business English and how to adapt the
general methodological principles to these specific situations.
Both input sessions and workshops are designed so that you
take part in dynamic activities
and discussions where you are encouraged to actively participate
and learn ‘through
doing’. So, we can guarantee you will not be bored.
Additionally, you will receive input on ‘professional
development’ and you will learn
about career paths in TEFL / TESOL as well as ways of keeping abreast of new
developments in the TEFL / TESOL world (symposiums, conferences,
workshops, ELT magazines and websites, literature, etc).
The main components of the course are:
1. Study skills
2. The Study of English
- grammar
- pronunciation: phonetics, stress,
rhythm and intonation
- lexis
3. The Teaching and Learning of ESOL
- basic principles: motivation, leaning styles, communicative
competence
- reading and listening
skills
- speaking and writing skills
- visual
aids
- errors and error correction
- teaching
young learners
- business English
- testing
4. Lesson Planning
- lesson stages and
plans
- lesson delivery
- classroom management
>>Classroom Practice
You will complete a
minimum of six hours’ teaching
practice with real foreign language students, which
is observed by the trainer. This will be followed by feedback
by the
tutor and trainee. You will be graded on different aspects
of your teaching performance, and receive an overall grade
for the lesson. This practical side of the course will enable
you to learn from first-hand experience about the particularities
of the TEFL / TESOL classroom. It will also equip you with
the technique and teaching tools needed to become a versatile
TEFL / TESOL practitioner and deal with a range of different
teaching situations and environments when teaching English
abroad.
>> Observation of Experienced
Teachers
Apart from learning from your own
and your peers’ teaching
practice, as part of your TEFL / TESOL training you will
be able to observe experienced teachers deliver lessons
to the very students you will be teaching.
These will normally be your own trainers and you will then
have the privileged
opportunity to learn from a professional in the field of
TEFL / TESOL doing what they do best: teaching English as
a foreign language to a group of non-native English language
speakers.
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