Weekend TEFL Course Canterbury, United Kingdom
Introductory Certificate in TEFL (weekend course)
  
Important Information
Entry requirements
Ideally, you should be at least 20 at the start of the course, and have a standard of English which will potentially enable you to teach at a range of levels. Enthusiasm and a willingness to give new things a try are pretty helpful.
Further Information:
The school is accredited by Cambridge University as a teacher-training institution, and successful Introduction to TEFL delegates can apply to go on the CELTA qualification, which is the minimum you'll need to be able to teach at reputable schools in the UK and abroad. Our Trainers are highly qualified and experienced professionals who have lived and worked aboard themselves and know what it's really like.
All successful delegates get a Certificate and Academic Transcript!
Course Details
| Course ref. |
5305 |
| Course Type |
Weekend TEFL Course |
| Min Age |
20 |
| Maximum Class Size |
12 |
| Class Times |
9.00 -17.45 Saturday and Sunday |
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Customer Feedback
The school has good facilities and the trainers and my fellow trainees were lovely people. The course was very intense! Lots of hard work, but worth it in the end.
-Selina Salvatori-
The CELTA was extremely intensive. All the seminars were very helpful and gave me the knowledge to develop my teaching skills. The teaching practice was hard but a great opportunity to test what I had learnt during the seminars and to improve my own teaching.
-Stefania Burelli-
The trainers were absolutely fantastic, so supportive and were just brilliant. The school had a really friendly atmosphere and all of the staff was incredibly helpful.
-Philippa Irwin-
Excellent school, friendly, helpful and very professional.
-Anna Terry-
Course Description
Would you like to become an "English as a Foreign Language" Teacher, or an ESOL Specialist in the Public Sector, but are not quite sure whether you should commit yourself to the 4 week intensive CELTA course or the DTLLS etc? Why not try the INTRODUCTION TO TEFL course to see if it's the right career move for you? It will give you insights into what lies ahead, allow you to find out if a TEFL career is for you and give you the confidence you need to progress to the next stage. You will find a weekend TEFL course is a lot of fun and will give you a chance to meet like-minded people. You will also have the opportunity to practise your teaching skills with your peers and gain invaluable teaching tips from your experienced tutors. What is more, if you go on to take the Cambridge CELTA course with us, you will be given a 10% discount on the course fees!
What to expect
To begin with, we'll start with how to break the ice with a new group of students and how to get them talking in English to you (and to each other!) and establish a working relationship.
Next, we'll look, from a practical perspective, at how people actually learn a language, so you'll take part in a short lesson in a foreign language so you know what it's like to be a learner, and use the experience to help you understand how teaching and learning happens in a modern classroom.
After that, we'll start work on understanding and recognising some of the basic technical terminology of English, so that you can start to understand the component parts of the language in a seminar on the building blocks of speech.
In the next session, we'll look at the practicalities of classroom and class management skills. How you set up a task and give instructions, how you organise your learners, and how you use resources like the board or audio-visual material. We'll show you some practical techniques you can use almost anywhere.
After lunch, we're going to look at one of the most basic parts of the English language, Tenses. Using lots of practical examples, we'll show you what they are, how they work, and how they're constructed. This will help you understand why most British people find foreign language books almost impossible to understand, and what you need to learn next to become a credible teacher.
This will give you confidence for the next session, which is how to teach grammar via a situation. You will be given a demonstration after which you will have the opportunity to practise with your peers which will help you apply what you've learned, and show you how to teach what you've learned in the previous seminar. By the time you're finished, you'll realise why the easiest way to learn something is to try and teach it, and you'll have a few basic techniques that you can use in grammar lessons in the classroom.
It's now the end of the first day. To give you some practise, we'll give you a choice of short and fun tasks to do, either by yourself or with some of your new colleagues, during the evening, so that you can start putting all you've learned so far into context.
To begin the second day, we'll discuss your previous day's progress, the lessons you've learned from doing a bit of teaching practise, and exchange hints, tips, and practical techniques with your peers.
To follow this, we'll involve you in some useful language practice activities, and after show you some clear and practical techniques on how to teach vocabulary and then give you the chance to practise on each other in a relaxed environment where you'll get help, advice, reassurance, and feedback from everyone.
We're then going to follow up with advice on how to teach and improve skills, focusing on teaching reading and listening in the classroom.
After lunch, we'll look at how to teach functions, which is the sort of practical language you might find in a phrasebook which helps you achieve your purpose. Nothing is guaranteed to get a class's attention more than this, so we'll take you through the dos and don'ts, and demonstrate how to teach functions through an amusing situation. We'll then give you the chance to teach one function to the rest of the group so you can get some practise with your peers in with a friendly and supportive audience.
We're almost at the end of the course, now, so we'll now show you how to bring everything together and create basic lesson plans, so that you have a clear idea what you're doing, why you're doing it, and what your learners will achieve by the end of the class.
Lastly, we'll then discuss the way forward. We'll look at training, employment opportunities in the UK and abroad, sources of information, qualifications, and answer any questions you have as best we can so that you can decide whether teaching is really for you or not.
Accommodation Options
If you need somewhere to stay, you are spoilt for choice in Canterbury:
Hostel: From GBP 12 per night for adults, GBP 9.00 for under 18's.
B&Bs;: From GBP 30 per night
Hotels: From GBP 52 per night
School Details - Canterbury
This centre is located in the heart of the city - close to the High Street and all tourist attractions. It is a small school with a very friendly atmosphere that prides itself on the supportive and personal learning environment with which it provides all course trainees.
Facilities include:
A computer room with free access to the Internet & student e-mail facility free of charge.
A library of books and cassettes.
Well equipped, bright teaching rooms.
A coffee bar and student lounge with music, TV, video and DVD.
Timetable
9.00 -17.45 Saturday and Sunday
Help for Jobs
For the CELTA course
This centre runs a number of summer schools at locations throughout the UK, and it is possible to apply for a teaching position once you have passed the CELTA or equivalent. Occasional full, part, and fixed-term vacancies within the school do also occur throughout the year and people who have the CELTA or above will often be considered. Any inexperienced teacher who secures a job will benefit from a 'mentoring' scheme to help them settle into the role.
For the Weekend Introduction for TEFL
A seminar on finding employment in TEFL is part of the Weekend Introduction to TEFL course, and is designed to help you understand the employment landscape for teachers at present, as well as the opportunities and pitfalls.
This centre runs a number of summer schools at locations throughout the UK, and it is possible to apply for these once you have passed the CELTA or equivalent. Occasional full, part, and short fixed-term vacancies within the school do also occur throughout the year and people who have completed a CELTA at the centre will often be considered. Any inexperienced teacher who secures a job will benefit from a 'mentoring' scheme to help them settle into the role.
How to Apply
A Weekend TEFL Course does not require you to complete an application form.
1. Select the course dates which interest you.
2. Register your details with us (1 minute)
3. Pay for your course in full
4. You will be sent your course joining details and information on finding the course location.
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