A Typical Week on the Course

If you want an idea of what your days will look like on our full time course, we have provided a brief outline below to help you understand how you will be using your time. If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to get in contact!

Input Sessions

This will the main focus of the weekday content. Typically there will be 4 input sessions per day, which will focus on a variety of different aspects of teaching. These will include topics such as; methodology, grammar, pronunciation, lesson planning, and classroom management. The course is designed to provide you with the all the necessary theoretical and practical needs of EFL teaching through fun and engaging sessions run by our highly experienced tutors. These days typically run from 10:00 - 17:00.

Lesson Planning

The weekends will be used for Teaching Practice, so you will be expected to create a variety of different lessons and deliver them to our students over the duration of the course. This means you will need to plan each lesson and create materials for those classes. This planning will be mostly done in your free time, but there will be opportunities for you to discuss your plans/ideas with the tutors, who are ready to give you support and guidance throughout the course.

Teaching Practice

This is your chance to apply the theoretical and practical skills you have learnt from the input sessions into teaching students in a real classroom situation. Typically Teaching Practice will follow the same format each week. Firstly, you will arrive at the teaching centre, give your lesson plan and the materials you will be using to the tutor who will be assessing you and ensure you have all the materials and items you need for your lesson. Then, you will teach your lesson to the students while the tutor, and your fellow candidates, watch from the back of the classroom. For anyone with no teaching experience, and even for those who do, this can be a daunting experience. But do not worry, the tutors and the students are well aware you are a trainee, so try to focus on having a positive classroom experience. Once all the lessons have been taught, the students will leave and the tutor and candidates will conduct a group feedback session. These days typically run from 10:00 - 17:00.

Feedback Sessions

After concluding the lessons for the day, you will have 20 minutes of reflection time. This reflection is designed to help improve your self-evaluation skills and will form part of your assessment. After 20 minutes, the tutor will conduct a group feedback session with all the candidates in which everyone is encourage to talk about and discuss their own and each other’s lessons and provide feedback on things they thought went well and things that could be improved on. These sessions are overseen by the tutors to ensure that they are positive and conducted in a professional manner. Once the feedback session has finished the tutor will provide each candidate with a written report on their lesson with gradings and evaluations.