TEFL Certification Course in Florence, Italy

  Italy

• Florence: 
Florence

Length of Position: 4-week, 120 hour intensive TEFL certific

Description: The course is essentially practical in nature, with just enough theory to provide sound principles on which to base your practice. In the morning, there are input sessions on the skills and methods of teaching and on language awareness. The afternoon consists of guided lesson preparation, teaching practice observed by a trainer, and feedback on your teaching.

Our trainees often comment "I know you said it was intensive, but I didn't realize it was that intensive".

The course consists of two main components:

Three hours of input sessions each day covering:
a. Teaching Skills & Classroom Management
This element of the course develops your skills in areas such as teaching grammar and vocabulary, creating your own materials and correcting students' errors. Classroom Management also includes classroom arrangement, managing resource materials, maintaining discipline, giving instructions, the role of student and teacher.

b. Language Awareness
This section of the course aims to consolidate your knowledge of grammar and phonology, and provide practical ideas as to how these can be taught.

Teaching Practice:
a. Three hours of guided lesson planning each day. Working with the guidance of the trainers, you prepare for the lessons that you will be teaching.

b. Teaching Practice: the most practical and important element of the course. You teach Italian students of English, adults and children, classes, small groups and individuals, and put into practice the skills learnt on the course. Each lesson is observed by one of the trainers, who gives you detailed written feedback.

c. After each lesson, you have a discussion with the trainer, developing the feedback and suggesting areas for attention. On the days when you are not teaching, you can observe your peers teaching.

Additional components include:

* Observation of experienced teachers: for the first two mornings of the course, you will observe the trainers teaching classes of Italian students. From the third morning, you will be teaching the students yourself.

* Unknown Language: you are taught an unknown foreign language, generaly Italian. This is designed to give you the experience of learning a totally foreign language entirely through the medium of that language.

* Individual sessions each week where you discuss your progress with the course director.

* Job Guidance in group and individual sessions.

Highlights: Florence is everything you would expect an Italian city to be. Full of art, history, and amazing food, it is one of Italy's most exhilarating, distinctive and impressive cities to experience.

Situated in the heart of Tuscany, Florence is almost in the center of the Italian peninsula with main rail lines running in all directions, making travel within Italy and abroad quite easy. Even a quick trip to Chianti, located between Florence and Siena, will fill your camera with shots of one of Italy's most beautiful countrysides.

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

Cost in US$: EUR 1175

* 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 Italy 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