4-week equivalent TEFL Course Buenos Aires, Argentina

Advanced Certificate in TESOL

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Important Information

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You will be offered a free job placement by the school once you have completed your TEFL course

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Course Details

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Course Description

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Content
The Advanced Certificate in TESOL course is Accredited by the College of Teachers

The course concentrates on the following key areas in order to make you an efficient, knowledgeable and valuable EFL teacher:

* Introduction to TEFL
* Learning versus teaching
* The lesson structure
* What do we know about language learning?
* Planning lessons and didactic material usage
* What are the best kinds of lesson?
* Classroom interaction
* Asking questions
* Feedback
* Testing and assessment
* Classroom discipline, what to do if students:
* Teaching vocabulary
* How to teach grammar
* How to teach reading
* How to teach writing
* How to teach speaking
* How to teach listening
* Student motivation and interest
* The teacher's behaviour, role and responsibility
* How to perform concept checking
* What difference does age make to language learning?
* Planning a syllabus
* ESP/Business English

The course includes 24 hours of teaching practice, 8 hours observing experienced teachers, 8 hours rehearsing your plans and 8 hours teaching classes of non-English speakers at all levels. The 8, 1 hour classes teaching non-English speakers are arranged so that you get to experience teaching to at least 2 groups of beginner, 2 groups of intermediate and 2 groups of advanced students. The remaining 2 classes are allocated at random but they will also be taught to beginner, intermediate or advanced students. The first 6 classes that count towards the final grade are observed by a rotation of the course trainers. The final 2 sessions will be observed in the event of a borderline pass/fail situation.
Teaching practice is observed and critiqued. Feedback is always provided so that you know how you are progressing.
In order to help you identify with the non-English students that you will be teaching and understand some of the problems they may have with learning a language, you will be given a lesson in a not so well known language.

Entry requirements
You have to be

- 21 years old by the course start date;
- Have a high level of competence in all aspects of English (*);
- Have a degree or a recognised professional qualification (**);

(*) Non-native English speakers are eligible if they have passed one of the tests mentioned below.
(**) You may also apply if you have at least 5 years of relevant professional work experience. In this case you will be asked to provide supporting documentation and references.

Non-native applicants must be able to demonstrate their English abilities by showing one of the following pieces of documentary evidence:

- A degree from a university in one of the following countries:
Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom or the United States of America;

- Cambridge CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English);

- IELTS level 6;

- TOEFL (minimum scores 520 on the paper-based test or 187 on the computer-based test).



Goals
To make sure that you pass the International TEFL Certificate course. Having our accredited certificate will show that you are a fully qualified TEFL/TESOL professional capable of getting EFL/ESL teaching jobs in many countries throughout the world. Upon successful completion of the course you will also:

Understand language use and analysis;
Be knowledgeable of teaching theory and its practical application;
Know how to manage an EFL/ESL class;
Be able to identify student learning difficulties and develop remedial action plans;
Know how to plan, design, develop and deliver effective lessons with total confidence.


Assessment
The course is continually assessed on three main themes:
1) Teaching practice performance;
2) Successfully completed assignments and lesson plans;
3) Professional development.

Individual student performance metrics will be gathered in the following key areas:
- teaching practice;
- practical teaching assessment including lesson planning, execution and the ability to give constructive lesson feedback;
- written work that demonstrates practical knowledge of the English language system, the TEFL theories and methodologies, understanding of learners, their needs and their capacities, the evaluation, monitoring and assessment and the materials preparation and lesson planning;
- written work must meet acceptable content, style and presentation standards for a teacher of English;
- professional attitude to everyone associated with the course.


Job Placement
Once you have passed the course you will be eligible for our lifetime guaranteed job placement assistance scheme, which starts on the last day of the course. Your CV/Resume will be sent to language institutions in the area where you would like to work. The normal pattern is that you will start interviewing and working within about a week from the end of the course. To-date, we have not noticed any major hiring preferences in either of our course locations regarding employment preference based on a candidate's passport. The job placement assistance scheme is also lifetime web based, so you will get permanent access to the school database in order to apply for jobs wherever you are in the world.

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Accommodation Options

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The school can provide you with a list of possible options once you have finished your course. You will book and arrange your accommodation yourself and pay for it upon arrival.

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School Details - Buenos Aires - Avenida Cordoba

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The school was founded in 1995. It has a very solid educational foundation based on many years experience in teaching business English (ESP), general English training and translation gained in San Francisco, New York, Paris, London, Oslo, Toronto, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Bilbao, Madrid and Buenos Aires.

As an employer of EFL teachers, this school knows what the TEFL job market requires and therefore all the their courses have been designed and developed to provide practical and hands-on training for EFL teaching professionals. The courses are taught by trainers who not only have advanced degrees in TEFL but also years of EFL teaching experience gained from all over the world.
The school has trained and helped to place students in many countries throughout the world. Our qualifications are recognised by TEFL and TESOL institutions in the UK, Europe, North America, Australasia and the rest of the world. They highlight your academic success, drive and determination to constantly improve your teaching skills. At this school, TEFL course graduates receive an internationally recognised certificate accredited by The College of Teachers, which is recognised by the British Council.

Buenos Aires

Argentina may have been in the news most recently for its troubled economy, but despite nursing a slightly bruised ego it still boasts a vibrant and cosmopolitan capital city. Lying on the estuary of the Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires is home to some 13 million people and is decidedly more European than South American in flavour. Its heart, or microcentro, throbs with stylish shops, elegant restaurants and quaint cafés, with bustling streets and grand boulevards leading out to a total of 48 barrios, or neighbourhoods. By day it's a display of colonial buildings and faded architecture but by night the air is filled with the sultry rhythms of tango and the sound of many a bar opening its door to a fashionable, and fashionably late, crowd.

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Timetable

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4 weeks full-time.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 10am-5pm (1hour lunchbreak);
Thursday and Friday 10am-1pm, followed by 1h class teaching in the afternoon

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