4-week TEFL Course Quito, Ecuador
SIT TESOL Certificate
   
Important Information
Cactus TEFL advises all applicants to apply well in advance as there are limited course start dates for the year!
Course Details
| Course ref. |
2507 |
| Course Type |
4-week TEFL Course or equivalent |
| Min Age |
18 |
| Maximum Class Size |
12 |
| Class Times |
Monday-Friday 8.30-18.15 |
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Course Description
This course comprises 130 hours of input and provides participants with professional knowledge and skills in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) as well as tools for their own reflection and growth as teachers.
The course provides practical training through teaching demonstrations, lesson planning and analysis, and practice teaching and feedback. Participants develop skills in teaching, speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar and culture. The course begins with a brief look at second language acquisition through the experience of being a learner. Participants then examine specific teaching areas each day, which they apply in their daily practice teaching of adult ESOL learners. Participants gain skills in analysis through examining their lessons with teacher trainers.
The TESOL course focuses on three main areas:
Learning
Participants engage in a language-learning experience in order to explore the relationship between language learning, teaching, and aspects of second language acquisition from the point of view of the learner. This experience provides the foundation for the examination of teaching practices.
Teaching
Participants examine the theory and practice of planning, teaching, grammar, culture, and assessing lessons in the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) through experiential activities, teaching demonstrations, discussions, lesson planning, materials development, and readings.
Classroom practices
Participants put their new knowledge and skills into practice through daily teaching sessions. Trainers observe and facilitate feedback sessions after these lessons. Participants learn to reflect on and assess their own teaching as well as to examine the teaching of their peers.
Graduates of the course find challenging teaching positions in the U.S. and abroad, or return to their current jobs with new skills and greater knowledge, awareness, and satisfaction. To facilitate networking, the course provider maintains a listserv that connects graduates of all the TESOL courses that it offers.
Accommodation Options
Homestay accomodation with local families is available for trainees. This option includes meals, and for a 30 day stay, the duration of the TESOL course, costs US $420, which is US $14 per night.
School Details - Quito
Located near the Carolina park, in a quiet but well equipped neighborhood in northern Quito, the centre is small and intimate. It offers English training to local people, and Spanish and Quichua, a local indigenous language, to foreigners.
Timetable
Monday-Friday 8.30-18.15
Help for Jobs
In the market for native English teachers in Quito, and in all of Ecuador, demand exceeds supply, and foreign teachers rarely have difficulty in finding jobs. To prepare our TESOL participants to help meet this demand, we provide various services to help them with their job search. Throughout the course advice on the English teaching field is offered, including a wealth of information about what Ecuadorian employers are looking for. Review of resumes by the highly trained staff of our English teaching department is available at any time. All participants are provided with a list of reputable schools in Quito, and as other schools advise our center of vacancies, this information will be made available to participants. Upon request, we are also able to advise participants about schools in other cities and provinces. As vacancies arise, participants are also welcome to apply for positions within our vibrant and varied English teaching programs.
How to Apply
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.
You can also submit an application by email. We will explain how to do this on the application form. Please contact us if you have any problems with the application procedure.
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