TEFL Certificate course six areas:

Classroom Management

Topics covered include;

The role of the teacher with regard for promoting effective learning. To consider ways in which we can maximize student interaction in the classroom. Effective strategies for Classroom Management in relation to eye contact, gesture, voice, student grouping, pre-lesson preparation, rapport with students, using the board, behavior management. Skills needed in the presentation of materials: the board, the flip chart, prepared cards. Maintaining discipline
Giving instructions

Teaching Skills

This is a highly practical element of the course where trainees consider;

The essential ingredients of a well planned lesson
The relationship between language structure and vocabulary
Strategies for teaching vocabulary
Effective strategies for correcting students mistakes
Specific issues concerned with teaching beginners
Ways to introduce and use a variety of language games
Ideas for oral communicative language learning activities
Ways to present a methodological model for teaching receptive skills (listening and reading)
Ways to present a methodological model for teaching productive skills (writing and speaking)
Models for introducing new language structures (grammar)
Specific issues involved in teaching Business English
The principles underpinning good assessment

Language Awareness (grammar)

This section of the course aims to consolidate trainee's knowledge of the English grammar system and provides practical ideas as to how it can be taught.

Some different aspects of grammar covered include:

The tense system
Nouns/adjectives
Verbs/adverbs
Infinitives
Gerunds
Parts of speech
Modal auxiliary verbs
Conditionals
Relative clauses
Phrasal verbs
Teaching pronunciation
Phonetics

Phonology

Focuses on areas such as stress, intonation, rhythm and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Unknown Language

Trainees are put into the position of language students and will be taught an unknown foreign language class. This gives trainees an opportunity to view lessons as a student and note techniques used by the teacher when teaching beginners.

Teaching Practice

The most practical and important element of the course. Trainees teach genuine EFL students following an official curriculum, the latter is extremely important, since many other training centers around the world recruit volunteers for trainees' teaching practices.

All teaching practices 10-hrs. minimum, (six are the international standard), fully observed, constructively critiqued and graded by our trainers. The emphasis is on progression and trainees are expected to address issues raised during feedback.

A sample of our exit criteria is as follows:

Week One:

AT THE END OF SESSION ONE, TRAINEES WILL BE AWARE OF:
- The reasons why people choose to learn a foreign language
- A number of theories in relation to how people learn effectively
- The differences between language acquisition and language learning
- The factors which influence the success of language acquisition and learning
AT THE END OF SESSION TWO, TRAINEES WILL BE AWARE OF:
- The role of the teacher in promoting effective learning
- Characteristics of an effective teacher
- The choices which teachers have to make in managing a class
- The factors which influence the decision making process of the teacher
- Strategies for maximizing students interaction (STT) in the classroom
- The ways in which teachers can unintentionally hinder or prevent learning
AT THE END OF SESSION THREE, TRAINEES WILL BE AWARE OF:
- Strategies for classroom management in relation to eye contact, gesture, voice, student grouping, pre-lesson preparation, rapport with students, behavior Management.
- Skills needed in the presentation of materials: the board, the flip chart, pre- prepared cards, note pads
- The use of audio visual equipment: the O.H.P., the cassette player.

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