TEFL Certificate Courses in Thailand

International TEFL and TESOL Training, Phuket:
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 Phuket in Thailand. The TEFL certificate you earn on completion of the course will enable you to work as an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher in Thailand or around the world. In addition, we offer online TEFL certification courses.

ITTT, in conjunction with TEFL International, provides internationally recognized TESOL/TEFL certificate courses in a wide variety of exotic and interesting locations including Phuket, Thailand. Our 4-week, intensive courses meet all international standards and are externally validated and moderated by the BOAA (Board of Academic Advisors). You can be assured of the highest standards and quality wherever and whenever you take our course.

Special Offer:
Sign up for any one of our TEFL International 4-week residential courses and receive an additional certificate course free of charge. You may choose from the following free courses: (a) Introduction to TEFL. (b) Teaching Business English. (c) Teaching English to Young Learners.The TEFL course is divided into six main areas:

1. Teaching Practice
This is the most practical and fundamental area of any TEFL/TESOL course, as well as the main reason that online and distance learning programs do not suffice. Course trainees teach real students of English and put into practice the skills learnt during the course.

2. Foreign Language Experience.
The trainees receive instruction in an unknown foreign language to reflect on the experience of being a learner, as well as to help direct their own teaching.

3. Language Awareness
a) This area focuses on grammar and covers word classes, simple sentence elements, complex sentences and clauses, verb time and tense, aspect and conditionals and modals, phrases and voice.

b) This area concentrates on phonology and covers phonemics, wordstress and intonation, sentence stress and intonation, rhythm and intonation, and connected speech.

4. 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; these will include a transcription and error analysis of audio and written samples, culminating in a 60-minute session observed by a trainer.

5. Teaching Techniques
This component of the course covers areas such as:

* Lesson planning
* Classroom management
* Establishing rapport
* Discipline in the classroom
* Managing equipment and teaching aids
* Creating materials
* Correction techniques
* Evaluation and testing
* Teaching vocabulary
* Teaching grammar
* Teaching receptive skills (reading and listening)
* Teaching productive skills (speaking and writing)
* Games in the classroom
* Songs in the classroom
* Teaching beginner students
* Teaching individual students
* Teaching business English
* Teaching young learners

6. Materials Project
All trainees must develop two sets of materials used during the teaching practice. These materials will be useful for future teaching practices and will help you begin creating your own materials file when English teaching. The materials should be easily portable, durable and be able to be used in more than one context (eg. vocabulary + grammar).

The materials may include visuals, audio or video tape, and cue cards or class handouts, but may not be photocopied from published sources. Trainees are required to adapt materials from commercial sources, or develop their own original materials.

You will present these materials to a course trainer and demonstrate how they were used, suggest how they can be improved and how they could be used in another context.

Combined Courses
These courses are ideal for those students who don't work to their best potential in intensive learning programs or for students who don't have 4 weeks to commit to an intensive course. They are available at our Phuket training centres and allow students to study the theoretical aspects of teaching & grammar etc online, followed by attendance at one of our training centers for teaching practise.

The online element of the course can take between 2 weeks and 6 months to complete (depending how quickly you want / are able to work through the course) & comes with full online tutor support. Attendance at the training center is for 10 days.