4-week TEFL Course or equivalent Alghero, Italy

TESOL Certificate Course + Italian

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Course Details

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Course Description

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TESOL COURSE OUTLINE

The course is made up of the following three components:


• Teaching Skills and Classroom Management

• Language Awareness

• Personal Skills and Qualities


1. TEACHING SKILLS AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

1.1. Training Sessions
These sessions are compulsory and cover issues which will be helpful in relation to work in the classroom. The sessions are conducted in a way which promotes active learning and encourages you to reflect on your past and current experiences, your progress on the course, established literature and relevant research findings.

1.2. The Observation of Experienced Teachers
At the beginning of the course, you will have the chance to observe a minimum of three lessons taught by qualified and experienced teachers. You will make notes on the lessons and will be provided with a series of questions to guide your observations. Additional opportunities to observe experienced teachers may be provided at later stages of the course.

1.3. The Observation of Peers
Trainees normally teach in pairs, sharing a ninety-minute lesson. Each trainee teaches for 45 minutes and observes his / her teaching partner for 45 minutes. The trainee observer is required to make brief notes about the teaching partner and offer insights during the post-lesson feedback session.

1.4. Teaching Practice with Groups
During the first week of the course you will teach at least one forty-five-minute lesson. Thereafter, you will teach between two and three forty-five-minute lessons in weeks two, three and four of the course. You will teach a minimum of eight lessons with groups of students from at least three different levels of competence in English. All teaching practices with classes will be observed by trained staff and you will receive group or individual feedback from them at the end of the lesson. The first two teaching practices with groups will not be graded but the remainder will.

1.5. The Individual Student Teaching Project
In addition to the teaching practices with groups, you will also be required to work with an individual student for two sixty-minute lessons. The work with an individual student will not be observed but you will be required to produce a comprehensive report on the sessions before the end of the course. This will be graded.

1.6. Guided Lesson Preparation Time
The training team will offer you extensive support guided lesson preparation time. As the course progresses, you will be expected to become less dependent on the support of the training staff and to demonstrate your ability to work more independently.

1.7. Unknown Language Study
You are required to attend three one-hour sessions where you will learn a previously unknown language. The lessons enable you to experience the emotions felt by students of English as a Foreign Language and to be introduced to techniques for working with beginners.

2. LANGUAGE AWARENESS

This component comprises the following aspects:

Analysing Communication

Grammar Awareness

Phonology


3. PERSONAL SKILLS AND QUALITIES

3.1. Observation of and interaction with trainees.

This is an area in which potential employers are frequently interested. Not only are they seeking well-qualified teachers, but employees who exhibit a range of personal skills and qualities. The ability to communicate effectively, engage in self-reflection and establish good rapport with students is of equal importance. During the course, trainers seek to demonstrate and encourage the development of these personal skills and qualities and to identify and record evidence of the trainees' accomplishments.

3.2. The Trainee File and the Self-Assessment Tasks
You are required to maintain a file which acts as a record of your development on the course. During the course you are also required to complete six self-assessment tasks which are added to the file and form the basis for discussions with the trainers.

3.3. Individual Progress Sessions
You will meet with a trainer on a number of occasions during the course in order to discuss your progress. The self-assessment tasks will form the basis for part of this dialogue.

ITALIAN LANGUAGE COURSE

After you have completed your TEFL course, you can spend two weeks seeing the type of teaching methodology that you have learnt in action, whilst learning or improving your Italian skills. This will be especially useful for anyone hoping to stay in the country and get work.

All levels can be catered for, although in cases where there are classes with fewer than 3 students, the number of hours is curtailed, thereby making it an individual or semi-individual tuition. Please indictate your estimated level on your application form- this doesn't have to be exact as anyone who has studied Italian before will be tested briefly the morning before classes begin so as to ensure they are placed in the correct level.

During your course, you can also opt to participate in school-organised excursions and outings or special courses on Italian cuisine or modern Italian culture.

After you finish the course, you will be given one-month’s free access to the school's Online Learning program. That way you’ll be able to correspond with your Italian trainer, have your writing samples corrected and continue doing grammar & vocabulary exercises.

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Accommodation Options

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Accommodation can be arranged for you upon request, either in a shared apartment, B and B or hotel.

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School Details - Alghero

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The school is located in the beautiful, Sardinian seaside town of Alghero.

The course takes place at a well-established language school that organises native-speaker taught language courses during the autumn and winter months for the residents of Alghero, and holds group courses for international travelers from all over Europe who come to Alghero during the spring and summer months in order to learn Italian. The school is located close to both the public gardens and beaches and is equipped with air-conditioning.

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Help for Jobs

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The centre is is a trusted member of an international network of language schools and as such is able to help course graduates gain employment with its affiliates worldwide, or even in Sardinia.

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How to Apply

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1. Choose the start date which interests you. If you’re still unsure, please choose an approximate date for now - you will be able to specify later.
2. Register your details with Cactus TEFL (1 minute) to help us track your application.
3. Download the application form and save it on your computer.
4. Complete it offline in your own time
5. Go back to www.cactustefl.com, sign in and submit your completed form.
6. We will keep you posted by email throughout the process.

You can also submit an application by fax, or post. We will explain how to do this on the application form. Please contact us if you would like us to post you an empty application form.

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Prices and Dates

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