This program is suitable for you if you’re already TEFL certified and you’re wanting to live and work in Barcelona, as a non EU passport holder.
This course covers advanced EFL teaching theory, methodology and techniques and is aimed at newly qualified teachers who have already completed at least 100 hours of previous TEFL training and are working part-time or full-time as EFL teachers.
The course aims to provide a supportive atmosphere for new teachers to share and exchange classroom successes and failures with other new, ‘developing’ teachers and to gain insight and feedback from experienced professionals. The course also provides a platform to share information about life in a new city, including official administrative procedures and bureaucracy. By providing continued opportunities for reflection and discussion, as well as detailed input on advanced teaching methodologies, we hope this course will offer our trainees the chance to thrive and flourish as successful and well-rounded teaching professionals.
Upon completion of the course trainees will be expected to demonstrate the following:
- Knowledge of the main grammatical, lexical and phonological features of contemporary English
- Awareness of advanced ESL techniques and classroom approaches
- Awareness of advanced teaching methodology
- Awareness of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA) concepts
- Ability to evaluate, use and adapt published material and create effective teaching material, which may include using the internet, visual aids, audio, video and ICT
- A good understanding of the main advantages and disadvantages of various language teaching approaches
- Ability to evaluate their own effectiveness as teachers and to work cooperatively as members of a teaching team
- Ability and willingness to share insights and reflections on their own teaching skills
- Awareness of the need to continue their development as ESOL teachers
- Ability to critically evaluate academic literature and journals relating to TEFL.
The Developing Teacher course is 48 weeks long (one year, including 4 weeks of holidays) and requires 20 hours per week of study. 3 hours of this is input sessions at the school, and the remaining time is self study.