TEFL Course
Teaching Practice - the most valuable part of the
course in which individuals have a chance to improve their teaching ability and add to this crucial part of the TEFL Europe qualification. Trainees begin real teaching early on in the course and receive supervision and constructive help from tutors at each stage, in particular in the form of input sessions after teaching practice classes. It is also important to note, as our experience at English Non-stop tells us, how greatly employers rate the number of hours teachers have amassed during their training.
Teaching Techniques - Providing an awareness of the teaching methodologies that are most relevant today, this component covers the following:
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Planning a lesson
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Classroom management
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Ice-breaking
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Teacher - student rapport
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Teaching equipment
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Creating your own materials
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Correction techniques
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Evaluation and testing
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Teaching vocabulary first, grammar second
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Teaching reading and listening in the class
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Using music to teach
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Teaching business English
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Teaching individual lessons
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How to teach beginners
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Teaching kids and teenagers
Unknown Language - As well as lessons in Czech or Croatian, trainees also experience what it is like to learn a new 'unknown' language from scratch. By doing this trainees are able to interact with a fully qualified and experienced TEFL teacher and gain an insight into what it is like first venturing into a new language. This provides our participants with confidence they can carry on into their teaching after the course, making them more articulate and able to pace their lessons much better.
Language Awareness - This component looks at the parts of speech of the English language, provides a good overview of English grammar and goes into the trickiest grammar areas for non-native speakers, such as tenses, conditionals and phrasal verbs. It then covers phonology, giving the trainees fun methods and ideas for teaching connected speech, rhythm, word stress, sentence stress and intonation,
Student Profile - Here trainees analyse the language ability of individual students, identifying their needs, strengths and weaknesses. After a transcription and an error analysis of audio and written samples, trainees present their analyses to trainers and make recommendations to the student concerning ways of improving their English.
Materials Project - Trainees create their own teaching materials with which they can demonstrate the materials are re-usable, durable and effective. Materials development may derive from commercial sources or from trainees own original sources. During teaching practice, trainees also combine teaching with visuals, colour, realia, and audio. They go on to discuss how the materials might be improved or re-adapted to other lesson objectives.
Assignments
These components culminate in the following assessed areas:
- Teaching practice 50%
- Lesson observation journal 15%
- Materials Project 10%
- Grammar test 10%
- Phonology test 5%
- Individual student profile 5%
- Unknown language journal 5%
Teaching practice is continually assessed from the first week and includes individual tutorials. At the end of the course, trainees who pass receive a certificate and those who achieve very high marks also receive a merit. A letter of recommendation is given to all trainees reflecting on their overall abilities.
