TEFL Training Courses in Cork, Ireland

Atlantic School Of English And Active Leisure:
Located in the lively village of Schull, right next to the Atlantic in West Cork on the Mizen Peninsula,Atlantic SEALspecialises in small group intensive courses. Our Cert TESOL qualification meets the requirements of the British Council Advisory Committee under the English in Britain Scheme and is one of the most sought after by employers worldwide. Full career advice is given during the course.

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We offer a Trinity College London Validated Cert-TESOL Teacher training course. The trainer: trainee ratio is 1:3. Strict max. of 12 allowed on the course. This course is designed for the trainee with little or no experience of teaching English in the contemporary ESOL classroom, but with a high level of competence in spoken and written English. It will equip you with the most basic skills and knowledge needed to take up a post as a TESOL teacher and give you a firm foundation for self-evaluation and further professional development. The Certificate is a minimum requirement for many jobs, and is recognised and regarded highly internationally.

Course Structure
The course is a short intensive course of four weeks duration, preceded by pre-course tasks, including an introduction to phonemic script, syntactic and lexical tasks and a short introduction to methodology. The course itself includes 130 hours tuition; input, tutorial time and teaching preparation, 6 hours teaching practice and a minimum of six hours of guided observation. The tuition takes the form of lectures, seminars, guided self-study, workshops and observation of experienced teachers. There is also some video and peer-observation.