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TEFL Open Evenings - London
Date: Wednesday 11th June 2008
Location: Guardian Newsrooms, Farringdon, London
Cost: £8
Our Cactus TEFL Open Evenings are run in London every few months, in conjunction with Education Guardian. They provide you with 3 or so hours of presentations, demonstrations, and time at the end to chat and discuss your personal projects and predicaments.
Join us at our TEFL taster evening in June: this is your chance to find out whether TEFL is for you, speak to us and industry experts, and attend informative talks and presentations as well as a demo lesson. There are also prizes to be won! At only £8, this is the perfect opportunity to find out all you ever needed to know about the world of TEFL!
London TEFL Taster Evening Info & Booking >
TEFL Open Evenings - Brighton
Date: Thursday 15th May 2008
Location: Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton
Cost: £5
As part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2008, Cactus TEFL is very proud to host their first Open Evening in their home town. This is a great opportunity to find out more about TEFL. Speakers include industry experts and local recruiters, there will be a demonstration lesson, and you'll have the chance to win various TEFL courses, including a TEFL course worth up to £1,000! Spaces are limited so we encourage you to book your place early.
Brighton TEFL Taster Evening Info & Booking >
Past TEFL Open Evening: March 19th '08
March 19th saw a recurrence of one of the TEFL world’s most noteworthy events. 2008’s first Cactus TEFL Open evening in collaboration with the Guardian Education was hosted in the Scott Room at the Guardian Newsrooms in central London, The room was packed with people wanting to know as much as they could learn about TEFL in the 3 hours available. Information backed by a detailed powerpoint presentation took the attendees through the pre-TEFL grammar course, short, online, weekend and 4 week and part time 4 week equivalent courses in 10 or 15 minute information slots presented by the Cactus TEFL team, representatives of Trinity College London, Cambridge ESOL, and other course providers. Conrad Heynes, a very experienced CELTA trainer and assessor shared his knowledge of CELTA with us, and Jenny Pugsley, Head of TESOL at Trinity College London enlightened us as to the similarities and main differences in approach of the Trinity Cert compared to the CELTA. We were treated to a highly amusing Thai language lesson given by Steve Jackson of Saint George International introducing us both to communicative teaching methods and a few starter words of Thai. Laura Harrison of Cactus TEFL developed the south-east Asian theme with an introduction to the delights of working for the ILA school chain in Vietnam . At the end of the evening, before the drinks and nibbles, the prize draw was held. Three lucky winners left the evening with a Trinity Cert TESOL course at Saint George International worth £750, an i-to-I 100 hour weekend and online course and job placement worth £495, and a Cactus TEFL English Language Awareness course worth £50. Don’t miss the next Cactus TEFL evening in June, when we will be announcing the 2008 Suzanne Furstner Scholarship to win a place on a 4 week training course and 2 weeks of Spanish lessons somewhere in South America for a lucky winner. Check out our site for more info.
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A TEFL Taster Day is probably the closest you will get to a CELTA or CertTESOL course without actually attending a course, and is perfect if you have not yet decided on whether to pursue a career in TEFL.
By being immersed in an English teaching environment for the day, you'll get a feel for what it will be like to spend all your working week in the language classroom - and if you have a rosy image of what it's like to teach - it'll bring you back down to earth!
PRICE: around £60 (except Cactus/Guardian Newsrooms Evening - £8 and Cactus Brighton Library Evening - £5. A proportion of this may be redeemable against the price of the full TEFL course if you book a Taster Day – please see individual course pages.
VENUES:
Bournemouth Central
Bournemouth Wimborne Road
Brighton Jubilee Library
Cheltenham
Guardian Newsrooms, London
Golders Green, London
South Kensington, London
Manchester
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