TEFL / TESOL Training Course in Florence, Italy

Via Lingua Florence:
Via Lingua Florence is part of an international group of TEFL centers offering outstanding, personalized TEFL Teacher Training. Our center in Florence is located in the heart of the historical center of the city, 5 minutes from the Duomo, Piazza Signoria and Pontevecchio. The facility boasts beautiful classrooms, offices and a library, with the added bonus of a thriving language center operating there as well.

TEFL Certificate Course
Our 4-week, 120-hour courses include the most up-to-date methodology and training available.

The course consists of two main components:

Three hours of input sessions each day covering:
a. Teaching Skills & Classroom Management
This element of the course develops your skills in areas such as teaching grammar and vocabulary, creating your own materials and correcting students’ errors. Classroom Management also includes classroom arrangement, managing resource materials, maintaining discipline, giving instructions, the role of student and teacher.
b. Language Awareness
This section of the course aims to consolidate your knowledge of grammar and phonology, and provide practical ideas as to how these can be taught.

Teaching Practice:
a. Three hours of guided lesson planning each day. Working with the guidance of the trainers, you prepare for the lessons that you will be teaching.
b. Teaching Practice: the most practical and important element of the course. You teach Italian students of English, adults and children, classes, small groups and individuals, and put into practice the skills learnt on the course. Each lesson is observed by one of the trainers, who gives you detailed written feedback.
c. After each lesson, you have a discussion with the trainer, developing the feedback and suggesting areas for attention. On the days when you are not teaching, you can observe your peers teaching.

Additional components include:

Observation of experienced teachers: for the first two mornings of the course, you will observe the trainers teaching classes of Italian students. From the third morning, you will be teaching the students yourself.

Unknown Language: you are taught an unknown foreign language, generaly Italian. This is designed to give you the experience of learning a totally foreign language entirely through the medium of that language.

Individual sessions each week where you discuss your progress with the course director.

Job Guidance in group and individual sessions.