What does an EFL teacher do? Try teaching. Revisit and rediscover your English grammar. How do you teach pronunciation? Make your first teaching materials. Learn the basics. Be ready to do conversation sessions, volunteering and assisting other teachers. Great starting point for further training.
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• Enjoy lively hours working in groups, developing communicative techniques that will be useful in many other situations as well as teaching.
• Re-discover how you learnt language as a child, and start to use mime, pictures, games and role plays to experience language in action.
• Learn to deal with grammar the way you do any other job: knowing the names and uses of the tools – so you can explain it to each other, or to anyone else.
• You will prepare and do two simple 10-minute teaching demonstrations, and finish feeling more confident, a better communicator, and quite elated.
• You’ll know the shape of the job after the weekend. You can teach on a conversational level and be a useful assistant or volunteer.
• If you want to acquire a more comprehensive qualification, add on the academically accredited 140 hour Distance Learning TEFL/TESOL course. Then gain experience teaching foreign students by joining our TEFL Work Experience Week.
“I thought the weekend would involve sitting in a class, listening to theory and taking notes in a very diligent tweed-and-leather-elbow-patch kind of way. How wrong could I be? I had a truly fantastic time, everyone got into the spirit of things and the teaching was engaging and fun. I really think it was one of those life changing events you hear people talk about and I’m so glad I’ve experienced one as well.”
Mike, 31, senior marketing analyst, London.
TEFL TESOL in Paraguay for the Santa Maria Education Fund.
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A thorough up-to-date grounding in the practice of Teaching English as a Foreign Language and solid grammar knowledge. Get ready to take control of your own classroom.
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• Study Where and When it Suits You. Work through 4 course books, send each back for feedback and advice. You set the pace and fit it in around your other commitments within a maximum period of 18 months. Using pen, paper and post you can work anywhere.
• Learn how to Plan Effective Lessons involving reading, writing, speaking and listening, with constant reference to classroom management. The course trains you to analyse your students’ needs, produce serious, quality lessons and adapt ready-made coursebooks.
• Get a Sure Grasp of Grammar and How the English Language Works. Knowing how English works is an important tool of your new trade. Don’t fear it, you probably know more than you think. You’ll learn lots of interesting and fun ways of teaching it too. Discover how English can be taught not using your students’ first language.
• Study Experienced Teachers in Action. 3 hours of lessons on DVDs show you how it can be done. You use this material to learn about lesson planning and teaching techniques. You will also sit in on 6 hours of live classes.
• You’re now ready to run a class on your own and learn as you go.
• You will always have someone you can contact. As soon as we get your first book back we will allocate your personal tutor. Until then you can call our head office and we have a tutor you can talk to.
• There is no exam. Your work is continuously assessed and also checked by a second tutor. The scheme is supervised by an external examiner to ensure fair and transparent procedures.
• Your Course Materials. 4 course books you write your work into, 2 DVDs with teaching demonstrations and 2 interviews with foreign students and “New Headway Intermediate” Students’ book.
• Entry Requirements:
All candidates will be asked to do a short language knowledge check as part of the booking procedure.
If you are a non-native English speaker, your English needs to be fluent and accurate and at a standard required for entry into UK higher education, i.e. IELTS band 6 or above, Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English or equivalent. Give us a call if you have any questions.
You don’t have to have a degree to do our course, but be aware that some countries require a degree for working visas.
TEFL TESOL in Paraguay for the Santa Maria Education Fund.
“I have found the course stimulating and sometimes challenging but also satisfying. It has opened doors to me and I now feel equipped to pursue my interest in teaching. The course has raised my awareness of the English language and heightened my curiosity about words, where they come from and how the language has developed. This course has opened up new possibilities. Thank You.”
Male, Manager, aged 48, graduated August 2007
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Practise what you learnt during your distance learning course.
Get the classroom experience your future employers are looking for.
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Actually being in the classroom environment is the best way to learn about TEFL, the everyday life and the organisation of the school. Get the teaching practice that your future employers are looking for.
Before teaching your own foreign students, you prepare your lesson plans with the guidance of your tutor. After teaching, you discuss your lesson with your tutor and find out how to develop your techniques.
You observe a variety of teachers, levels and types of lessons such as Business English, 1:1, Pronunciation and exam classes. This is a great way of picking up ideas for your own lessons, and seeing what really works.
At the end of a successful week, you receive a graded Teaching Practice Certificate. You also get a written assessment of your teaching to support your applications for TEFL work.
You can also join this programme if you have completed another TEFL course than ours if it is of a minimum length of 100 hours. Please contact us for further details.
TEFL TESOL in Paraguay for the Santa Maria Education Fund.
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