TESOL Course Aims

When you graduate from the International House TESOL Program, you will be knowledgable in the following areas:

• Classroom Management: How to organize a successful and effective classroom and how to deal with any problems which may arise
• Lesson planning: You will be able to create interesting, challenging and stimulating lesson plans for your students
• Grammar: You will have a detailed knowledge of several key grammar areas and be able to apply them to teach at several different levels
• Pronunciation: You will be able to teach Pronunciation successfully and have a thorough knowledge of key aspects of the sounds and structure of the English Language
• Teaching Skills: You will be able to teach Speaking, Reading, Listening, Writing, Vocabulary, and Grammar lessons with confidence.
• Vocabulary: You will increase your own vocabulary during the course with our special emphasis at International House on developing the students' range of vocabulary
• Assessing and Motivating your students: You will be ready and have the skills to assess a student's level of English with our practical Assessment Techniques and be able to motivate your students to better perform
• The International House TESOL Teacher Training Program takes pride in the fact that we create a supportive and encouraging environment for all our Teacher Trainees.

TESOL Syllabus

• We focus on the ESA Model while also examining several other approaches such as Task-based Learning and Communicative Language Teaching.
• Detailed ook at Lesson Planning: How to write an effective, structured lesson plan. (All TESOL students will teach 5 Lessons during the TESOL Program)
• Teaching Skills: We train you how to teach Speaking, Reading, Listening, Writing, Vocabulary, and Grammar lessons and how to plan challenging and stimulating exercises for each different skill.
• Grammar Workshops: We offer six grammar workshops on the program. Parts of Speech, Verb Tenses, Conditional Sentences, Modal Verbs, The Active and Passive Voice, Reported Speech
• Pronunciation Workshops: We offer six Pronunciation Workshops during the Program. These focus on:Using the IPA Chart, Vowels and Consonants, Word and Sentence Stress, Syllables, Intonation and Connected Speech
• During the program we examine how to teach Beginner students, Teenagers, Children and look at a range of different Learning Styles such as Auditory, Kinasthetic and Visual.
• Classroom Management: Teacher positioning, Monitoring, Teacher Talking Time and Student Talking Time. Problems that occur in a classroom and how to deal with them. Student groupings.
• Observations: All TESOL Trainees will complete 10 hours of Classroom Observations where they will observer our International House teachers
• Assignments: One Observation Report, Essay, Oral Presentation.