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TEFL/TESL/TESOL
Course Review
At ITTO, we use
the communicative approach and immersion techniques to prepare our
trainees. Our daily classes include morning input sessions with our
instructors and afternoon teaching practices. The group input sessions
are guided by professional TEFL/TESL/TESOL trainers and include the use
of interactive techniques and experiential activities in order to
develop the long-term thinking and planning skills that are needed by
TEFL/TESL/TESOL teachers. Each input session follows a similar pattern:
performing, recalling, reflecting, concluding and practicing.
During our
professionally guided input sessions, trainee teachers frequently break
into small groups to create teaching materials and practice teaching
techniques. All the activities that we practice model the type of
skills, qualities, attitudes and teaching techniques that trainees will
be expected to use in the classroom.
The course is
designed to be developmental and incremental and to encourage trainee
TEFL/TESL/TESOL teachers to be creative and confident in their work.The
following is an outline of topics covered during our daily input
sessions.
1.-
Classroom Management
- The role of the teacher and
the student in the classroom
- Classroom arrangement
- Managing a class
- Maintaining discipline
- Giving instructions
2.- Teaching Skills
This is a
highly practical element of the course aimed towards building trainees
skills in the following areas:
- Teaching grammar,
vocabulary, speaking, reading, listening and writing lessons (receptive
and productive skills)
- Creating materials
- Correction techniques
- Evaluating a textbook
- Distinguishing between
errors and mistakes
- Teaching beginners,
intermediate, advanced and individual students
- Games, fillers and warmers
- General models for language
structures
- Teaching business English
- Teaching children
- Student groupings.
- Setting up activities
- Elicitation
- Lesson planning
- Equipment and teaching aids
3.-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 of the 35 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
- Unknown language.
4.-Phonology
Focuses on
areas such as stress, intonation, rhythm and the International Phonetic
Alphabet.
5.-Unknown
Language
Candidates are
put into the position of language students and will be taught an
unknown foreign language. This gives candidates a chance to view
lessons as a student and note techniques used by the teacher when
teaching beginners.
6.-Teaching Practice
The most
practical and important element of the course. Trainees teach real
students of English and put into practice the skills learnt on the
course. A very important feature of our course, we are able to offer
our trainees the opportunity to actually teach genuine English students
of our affiliated schools. Due to our affiliations with high quality
ESL/EFL schools in Guadalajara, ITTO can offer its students a unique
teaching experience that many other TEFL/TESL/TESOL training schools
cannot.
All teaching practices (a
minimum of 10 1-hour classes) are fully observed, constructively
critiqued and graded by our trainers. We emphasize progression and
trainees are expected to address issues raised in feedback during their
next teaching practice.
If you would
like to attend a TEFL/TESL/TESOL course that exceeds international
criteria and also gives you a genuine feel for teaching English in a
foreign country, we recommend the International Teacher Training
Organization TEFL/TESL/TESOL Course in Guadalajara, Mexico
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