Intensive 4-Week TEFL Course in Greece

International TEFL & TESOL Training, Athens:
International TEFL & TESOL Training (ITTT) in central Athens, Greece provides internationally-recognized English teacher training courses to students from all over the world. Our 4-week residential TEFL Certificate course is internationally-recognized, features over 120 hours of classroom study and extensive teaching practice with different levels of English language learners.

TEFL Certificate Course:
Duration: 4 weeks / 120+ hours
Our Certificate course has a very practical emphasis and deal primarily with the real skills and knowledge needed by teachers in the classroom. The TEFL course is divided into six main areas:

Teaching Techniques:
This component of the course covers areas such as:

- Classroom management
- Correction techniques
- Creating materials
- Discipline in the classroom
- Establishing rapport
- Evaluation and testing
- Games in the classroom
- Lesson planning
- Managing equipment and teaching aids
- Songs in the classroom
- Teaching beginner students
- Teaching business English
- Teaching grammar
- Teaching individual students
- Teaching productive skills (speaking and writing)
- Teaching receptive skills (reading and listening)
- Teaching vocabulary
- Teaching young learners

Teaching Practice:
Course trainees teach real students of English and put into practice the skills learnt on the course. This is the most practical and fundamental area of any TEFL/TESOL course.

Language Awareness:

- Grammar:
Covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrasals and voice.

- Phonology:
Covers phonemics, word stress and intonation, sentence stress and intonation, rhythm and intonation, and connected speech.

Student Profile:
Trainees work with individual students on rapport-building, error analysis and correction and addressing individual student needs. Three meetings with the student are required including transcription and error analysis of audio and written samples, culminating in a 60-minute session observed by a trainer.

Materials Project:
All trainees must develop two portfolios of materials used during the teaching practice. Each set must be durable, capable of being used for more than one lesson context and easily portable. The materials may include visuals, realia, audio or video tape, cue cards and class handouts, but may not be photocopied from published sources.

Foreign Language Experience:
The trainees receive training in an unknown foreign language to reflect on the experience of being a learner, and how this might direct their own teaching.