TEFL has to do with Teaching English as a Foreign Language. A TEFL Certificate shows that you have training and experience in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. A TEFL Certificate verifies that you have knowledge in the theory and methods pertinent to understanding second language development and how a second language should be taught. Completing the program will give you the skills along with the confidence to be a success in the ESL/EFL classroom. Finally, a TEFL Certificate gives you advantages over other candidates who may be looking for a job teaching English as a foreign language.

Administrators and School Directors are more strict about who they hire than they once were. In the past any native speaker could simply ask for a job and be given one. A TEFL Certificate shows employers that you have been trained and are acquainted with the skills and methods of teaching English. It therefore makes you a much more attractive job candidate over unqualified applicants.

Holding a TEFL certificate will definetely become a worthy added value to your C.V. over non-certified teachers, as a certification is becoming the standard requirement when applying for a job, you will also receive the benefit of our permanent job guidance program.

If your interest is traveling and teaching abroad, we sincerely encourage you to search "Paid job placement" agencies.

Different from what reputable agencies do, which is secure a position for you abroad, we will go further; upon successful academic completion of the course, obtain paid employment and certify you in a most rewarding career, a TEFL Certificate gives you advantages over other candidates who may be looking for a job teaching English as a foreign language.

The course follows an immersion method where trainees develop their teaching skills and knowledge of grammar through a combination of morning input sessions and evening practical teaching.

During input sessions students are engaged in the class by frequently breaking into small groups to create teaching materials and practice teaching techniques.

During teaching practice, trainee teachers put into practice the skills and methodology learned during the input sessions. 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 are fully observed by our trainers. Feedback is given and suggestions are made regarding the areas of teaching that could be improved.

The emphasis is on continual assessment and participants are expected to address the issues raised from previous feedback in their future lessons.

The course is divided into 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.

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:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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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