TEFL Certification Course in Crete, Greece

  Greece

• Other Cities in Greece: 
Chania

Length of Position: 4-week intensive TEFL course

Description: 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.

Highlights: The school in Chania is part of a global educational organization, with schools and offices in numerous worldwide locations. You will develop your English language teaching (TEFL) skills in a friendly and supportive environment and you are also provided with employment opportunities throughout your TEFL career. Through the Job Placement Assistance program, 80% of graduates have already found a job by the time they finish the course.

The school is situated in the very centre of Hania, a short walk from the ancient agora, the sea and the old Venetian harbour. It has a large air-conditioned training room, fully equipped classrooms, lesson preparation rooms, a computer room, fully stocked resource library, bathrooms and a kitchen with a refrigerator, sandwich maker and tea/coffee machines. There is also a washing machine provided for your convenience. The computers available have Internet access and the entire school is a Wireless Internet Zone enabling you to have free Internet access via your own laptop if you choose to bring one. In addition, there is a large outdoor terrace with tables and chairs so you may soak up the sun and get some fresh air while planning your lessons.

Weekly Greek lessons are included in the price of the course fee.

Optional social excursions are organized for the weekends during the course. Trips are organized to the ancient Minoan palace of Knossos, the Samaria Gorge and to some of Crete's world-famous beaches.

Qualifications:
* Native English Speaker or proof of English proficiency for non-native speakers
* University degree recommended but not essential

Cost in US$: USD 1,700

* Pick-up and hotel transfer from the point of arrival in Chania, Crete
* Welcome lunch and orientation tour
* All materials and tuition for the 4-week course, including examination fee
* Use of all facilities at the school (including unlimited internet access and kitchen/laundry facilities)
* Weekly Greek lessons
* Graduation lunch

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Greece Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 10 maximum

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Job and Internship Network

Via Lingua International LLC's Mission Statement: Via Lingua Crete aspires to train high-quality teachers using the latest teaching methodologies. An important element of our course is experiential learning and all sessions involve task-based interactions. We are also proud to help our trainees develop self-reflective skills in their evaluation of their own teaching and learning.

Year Founded: 2000