TEFL / TESOL Courses in Prague

International TEFL and TESOL Training, Prague:
International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT) is a professional ESL teacher training organization that offers an internationally-recognised and accredited four-week TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate course in a range of locations worldwide, including Prague in the Czech Republic. The TEFL certificate you earn on completion will enable you to work as an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher in the Czech Republic, Europe & around the world. In addition, we offer online TEFL certification courses.

Internationally-recognized 4-week TEFL Certificate course:
ITTT courses have a very practical emphasis and deal primarily with the real skills and knowledge needed by teachers in the classroom. Whilst the course timetable may vary slightly from location to location, the content will always remain the same. The TEFL course is divided into six main areas:

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

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.

Language Awareness
a) Grammar. Covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrasals and voice.
b) 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.

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

Materials Project
All trainees must develop 2 sets of materials to be used during their teaching practice. Each set must be easily portable, capable of being used for more than one lesson context (e.g for both vocabulary and grammar) and durable. The materials may include audio or video tape or visual aids, cue cards and class handouts, but may not be photocopied from published sources. 

Trainees are required to adapt their materials from commercial sources, or develop original materials. The summation of this project is a presentation to the trainers on how the materials were used, how they could be improved and how they might be used in another teaching context.