4-week TEFL Course Guadalajara, Mexico
TEFL Certificate Course
   
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Course Details
| Course ref. |
2873 |
| Course Type |
4-week TEFL Course or equivalent |
| Min Age |
18 |
| Maximum Class Size |
18 |
| Class Times |
Monday to Friday
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Input sessions covering grammar, phonetics, teaching skills, and classroom management.
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lunch.
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Guided lesson prep time. 3:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m Teaching practice |
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Customer Feedback
The school was terrific. It exceeded my expectations. My teacher was highly qualified, kept the class interesting and provided help in planning the daily lessons which we were teaching.
Brian Asher
The staff were very helpful and friendly throughout. My trainer was very good and with experience of teaching elsewhere in the world did not merely concentrate on the difficulties and teaching culture you encounter in Mexico, if that was where you opted to teach. I enjoyed most the opportunity to live and study in another country and culture.
Christopher Dade
Course Description
Holding a TEFL certificate will add value to your CV or resume, as certification is becoming a standard requirement when applying for teaching jobs. Along with the benefit of our permanent TEFL job guidance program, you can feel secure in never having problems obtaining a teaching job.
Different from what reputable agencies do, which is secure a position for you abroad, we will go further. Upon successful academic completion of the course we will certify you as a professional TEFL teacher as well as obtain paid employment for you. A TEFL Certificate gives you advantages over other candidates who may be applying for the same jobs. With our contacts with literally thousands of schools all around the world, you may rest assured that your requests for TEFL job placement and guidance will be efficiently met.
The course itself is offered through the use of interactive techniques and experiential activities, in order to develop the long-term thinking and planning skills that will be needed by the teacher and required by schools hiring English teachers. Each input session follows a similar pattern: doing, recalling, reflecting, conducting and practicing.
The course is designed to be developmental and incremental and to encourage the trainees to be creative and confident in their work.
The course follows an immersion method where trainees develop their teaching skills and knowledge of grammar through a combination of morning input sessions and evening practical teaching.
During input sessions students are engaged in the class by frequently breaking into small groups to create teaching materials and practice teaching techniques.
During teaching practice, trainee teachers put into practice the skills and methodology learned during the input sessions. Trainees teach genuine EFL students following an official curriculum: this is extremely important, since many other training centers around the world recruit volunteers for trainees' teaching practices.
All teaching practices are fully observed by our trainers. Feedback is given and suggestions are made regarding the areas of teaching that could be improved.
The emphasis is on continual assessment and participants are expected to address the issues raised from previous feedback in their future lessons.
The course is divided into six areas:
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Topics covered include;
- The role of the teacher with regard for promoting effective learning.
- To consider ways in which we can maximize student interaction in the classroom.
- Effective strategies for Classroom Management in relation to eye contact, gesture, voice, student grouping, pre-lesson preparation, rapport with students, using the board, behavior management.
- Skills needed in the presentation of materials: the board, the flip chart, prepared cards.
- Maintaining discipline
- Giving instructions
TEACHING SKILLS
This is a highly practical element of the course where trainees consider;
- The essential ingredients of a well planned lesson
- The relationship between language structure and vocabulary
- Strategies for teaching vocabulary
- Effective strategies for correcting students mistakes
- Specific issues concerned with teaching beginners
- Ways to introduce and use a variety of language games
- Ideas for oral communicative language learning activities
- Ways to present a methodological model for teaching receptive skills (listening and reading)
- Ways to present a methodological model for teaching productive skills (writing and speaking)
- Models for introducing new language structures (grammar)
- Specific issues involved in teaching Business English
- The principles underpinning good assessment
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 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
PHONOLOGY
Focuses on areas such as stress, intonation, rhythm and the International Phonetic Alphabet.
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE
Trainees are put into the position of language students and will be taught an unknown foreign language class. This gives trainees an opportunity to view lessons as a student and note techniques used by the teacher when teaching beginners.
TEACHING PRACTICE
The most practical and important element of the course. Trainees teach genuine EFL students following an official curriculum: this is extremely important, since many other training centers around the world recruit volunteers for trainees' teaching practices
All teaching practices total 10 hours minimum, (six is the international standard), fully observed, constructively critiqued and graded by our trainers. The emphasis is on progression and trainees are expected to address issues raised during feedback.
Accommodation Options
Option 1
A home-stay with a Mexican host family. For a fee of $100 USD per week, you receive three meals a day and have your own private bedroom. Home-stays are usually 35-45 minutes bus journey from the Training Center. Guadalajara, as most metropolitan cities, has residential areas and commercial areas. We select families that live in safe, pleasant neighborhoods, with easy access to public transportation. All home-stay families have been carefully selected and their properties inspected.
Option 2
Just minutes away from downtown, this Posada (Inn) is a safe, modern, inexpensive accommodation with great facilities. (See the list.) Surrounded by an unrivalled selection of restaurants, cafes, bars, theatres, shops, etc., it is located a few steps from the Chapultepec area. The rate is $950.00 USD for 4 weeks.
Option 3:
This Posada (Inn) includes private and shared rooms with private bathroom, television, and ventilation system (air chiller). Equipped kitchen is accessible to guests and supervised by a staff member. Laundry services (machine washing and drying) are included in the cost. Restaurant service is also available. The rates are $350.00 in a shared room or $660.00 in a private one for the 4 weeks.
Option 4:
This fully remodeled Posada (Inn) features clean, spacious rooms with private or shared baths, table convenient for homework purposes, TV, entrance security camera with video doorman. It is located just around the corner from our school. You are able to use the kitchen services and have free access to WI-FI Internet in the comfort of your room. No meals included. Master card and Visa are accepted. The rate is $660.00 USD for the 4 weeks in a private room.
School Details - Guadalajara
The center is part of a network of teacher training and language centers and its infrastructure is strengthened by a partnership with one of the most prestigious language centers in the region located only steps away from the training center. With over forty classroooms, groups of E.F.L. learners of all ages and levels, and classes running from 7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M., Monday-Saturday at the E.F.L. partner school, you are sure to obtain all the necessary real teaching practice you need in order to start your TEFL TESOL career in Mexico or anywhere around the world.
The center's specialty is training students to teach English as a foreign or second language and also finding them post course paid employment in Mexico. With literally thousands of school contact details from all around the world, you may rest assured that your requests for job placement / guidance will be efficiently met. Through our network of EFL employment contacts we assist our graduates to find employment all over the world. By gaining international certification you are assured worldwide acceptance as an English teacher.
Through the EFL partner school, a state of the art Self-Access/Multimedia Lab with 40+, computers is available for trainees to get hands on experience in the use of the latest technology.
Timetable
Monday to Friday
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Input sessions covering grammar, phonetics, teaching skills, and classroom management.
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lunch.
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Guided lesson prep time. 3:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m Teaching practice
Help for Jobs
Job Placement
TEFL paid job placement in Mexico is guaranteed for successful candidates, and direct employment contacts worldwide are provided upon successful completion of the TEFL course.
- The school guarantees paid job placement in Mexico for all successful graduates
- Graduates choose 5 locations, the employment service always tries to match them with their first option
- Graduates are sometimes placed in other countries too, but the school can only guarantee paid job placement in Mexico
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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