Weekend TEFL Courses in Auckland & Dunedin, New Zealand

i-to-i, Auckland and Dunedin:
Established in 1994, i-to-i is an award winning Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) training organisation. We've been enabling people to get more out of their travels, training people to teach English overseas, helping them find work abroad and doing what we can to help people live the life they want to live. We have a global team with offices in the UK, USA, Australia and Ireland. We train approximately 15,000 people annually to teach English as a foreign language - more than any other TEFL / TESOL training provider in the world.

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Weekend TEFL Courses
Complete a Weekend TEFL Course in Auckland or Dunedin with i-to-i, who have been running weekend TEFL courses for over ten years. The 20-hour TEFL course covers the grammatical concepts needed in the classroom and offers hands-on learning to teaching in the foreign classroom.

Our weekend course will enable you to:
- Gain the confidence to walk into your first classroom, safe in the knowledge that you really know what you're doing.
- Organise lesson plans, use a blackboard (it's trickier than you'd think) and manage a classroom.
- Get valuable advice on finding work abroad from a tutor who has taught overseas for years.
- Have all the skills and experience of delivering a lesson of English without speaking the language of your students.

Course Outline

Saturday
- Introduction and ice-breakers
- Classroom management
- An introduction to grammar
- A foreign language lesson: see what it's like on the other side
- Elicitation techniques
- Using the blackboard
- Functions: what we do with language
- Level checks: ensuring students get the right tuition for them
- Practice activities: guiding students in language use
- Free practice activity: letting students communicate
- Teaching practice preparation
- First teaching practice & feedback

Sunday
- Drama and role play
- Pronunciation & Intonation
- Reading & Listening: teaching comprehension skills
- Grammar: tenses and time
- Error correction: getting the most out of your students
- Final teaching practice preparation
- Final teaching practice & feedback
- Employment in TEFL: career options