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We provide a 4 week accredited certificate course in TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (TEFL). Your passport to travel and work anywhere in the world!

On this page: Introduction Course content Teaching practice Student assessment Course schedule Introduction All courses are held in accordance with recognised international standards and validated by the Ministry of Education. This ensures that everyone enrolled on our courses receives the best of instruction.

Our courses are 4 weeks in duration. This gives you plenty of free time during the weekend to explore the delights of Samui island.

The following course topics are covered in every course.

• TEFL Lesson Planning and preparation
• Current Teaching Methodologies
• Materials writing
• An overview of Asian students' attitudes to EFL and Asian culture
• How students learn language
• Roles of the teacher, learner and materials
• Teaching in Asia and a foreign language learning experience
• Student needs analysis
• Identification of potential student problems
• The nature of language
• Observation of qualified and experienced teachers
• 6 hours of observed teaching practice (with 6 optional hours)
• Peer teaching/micro teaching
• Classroom management
• Professional development
• The English language sound system
• Writing a cv

As well as course content, future employers also check to see that you have completed your teaching practice hours. It is necessary that you have received 6 hours of observed teaching practice and have been given constructive feedback on your performance together with comments on your own lesson reflection. In addition to these hours we offer you the option of teaching a further 6 hours. The choice is yours! This is done in addition to the standard course period and there is no extra fee.

You will be guided through the process of planning, preparation, implementation and reflection of each lesson.

At the end of the course you will be able to:
- plan effective lessons for the language level of your class
- apply the theory of language learning to your lesson preparations
- implement current teaching methodologies into your classroom
- successfully manage an EFL class
- have fun with your students

Who are the students?

We provide you with the opportunity to teach as many different levels as possible. You will teach children and adults.

Assessment

Students are assessed continually throughout the course.

Each student will teach a total of at least 6 hours of classes in order to meet international standard course requirements. The student must satisfy the trainer that he/she has reached a satisfactory and competent level of teaching proficiency.

Course Schedule

Duration of the course is a 4 week period Monday to Friday. Evenings are free as are the weekends. Some independent study during the evenings/weekends is required so that students may complete assignments and prepare for the next day's sessions. We do realize that most of our trainees will want to sample the many delights Samui has to offer, therefore there are no classes on weekends.