TEFL Courses - Induction Courses
EFL Teacher Training Courses (TEFL Induction Courses)
At Easy SL we organize professional TEFL Teacher Training Courses (also known as TEFL Induction Courses). These courses are recognised and approved by the TEFL Monitoring Board of the Ministry of Education in Malta and developed in terms of Legal Notice 60/96.
- The course is designed and led by Alan Marsh B.A., M.A., M.Ed. (ELT), Cambridge ESOL CELTA and DELTA. Alan has 30 years teaching and teacher training experience in various countries. He has taught and developed teachers from all over the world. He is also President of MATEFL (Malta Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language).
- The course is designed to provide participants with the basic teaching skills and knowledge they need in a communicative, learner-centred EFL classroom. Participants will normally have little or no experience of teaching EFL.
- The course is highly practical. The procedures used to teach the trainees on the course are the same procedures that will be used when they teach a classroom of EFL students. This makes all workshops highly dynamic and interactive classrooms, where the trainee just doesn’t read or hear about methodology, but actually has it demonstrated on them. Teaching methodology is demonstrated by workshops/seminars, video, audio, and assignments, and there is a considerable amount of ‘get up and try it out’ on the course, where participants try out techniques on fellow trainees.
- You are already a fluent speaker of English. You instinctively use grammar correctly, but you probably don’t know why you use one form rather than another. This is what most learners want and need to know. Don’t worry - the course also develops your Language Awareness. You’ll learn the names of the tenses in English, and when they’re used, for example. You’ll also learn about many other grammatical forms (for example the articles, noun phrases and verb phrases, determiners, demonstratives, adjectives, present and past participles, infinitives and gerunds, passives, conjunctions, pronouns). We’ll also teach you the International Phonetic Alphabet as it is applied to English.
- We’ll also show you videos of real teaching so that you’ll know what an authentic EFL classroom looks and sounds like.
- The course also consists of two assessed Teaching Practice sessions and two Assignments, and you’ll get written and often verbal feedback on these from your trainers. You’ll also get tutorials to help you prepare these thoroughly.
- The Easy SL TEFL course is a prestigious course, and is highly respected in Malta (and abroad). Past trainees come back to us again and again to tell us how the methodology and knowledge they learned on the course have helped them survive and flourish in EFL classrooms, both in Malta and abroad. Employers are aware that if you successfully complete our course you are highly employable. Rest assured that we will give you all the help you may possibly require. However, as a guarantee to employers that standards are high, passing the course is not ‘automatic’. If you fail both of your assessed Teaching Practice sessions, or one Assignment and one Teaching Practice session, we will not be able to issue you with a certificate that you have successfully completed the course. If at any stage during the course we feel that you are not suited to teaching EFL, we will advise you and give you the opportunity to withdraw from the course. In such cases we will return 50% of your course fee.
Course Content: Specific categories that are normally covered include:
- Language awareness: the parts of speech; tenses; active and passive
- Modern teaching techniques in a communicative, learner-centred classroom
- Teaching and practicing grammar
- Teaching reading skills
- Teaching writing skills
- Teaching listening skills
- Teaching speaking skills
- Teaching and practicing pronunciation
- Teaching and practicing vocabulary
- Teaching adults
- Teaching teenagers
- Lesson planning
- Time management
- Classroom Management
- Effective use of textbooks
- Warmers and Icebreakers … and fun in the classroom
- Using pop music as a language development tool
- Starting a New Class
- Troubleshooting
- Getting your first job
- Development after the course
We look forward to welcoming you on our TEFL course. You’ll find it interesting, stimulating, and at times challenging. But most of all you’ll find that it is enjoyable and memorable and that it provides you with the skills and knowledge you need to teach TEFL. See you soon!
Some functional information Please note that the following will appear on the course certificate:
Attendance Percentage : In order to obtain a course certificate participants must attend a
minimum of 80 % of the course and complete
both assignments and at least
one assessed Teaching Practice session before the course ends. However, we strongly recommend that you attend
ALL sessions. Given the experiential “hands on” nature of the “learning by doing” approach adopted on the course,
sessions which are missed cannot be made up on this course. Missed sessions cannot be easily reconstructed from reading notes taken by other participants.
Work on the assignments will require a considerable amount of research and preparation. Past course participants have indicated that they spent a total of 4-5 hours on each of their two assignments.
Assignment Grades : A ( Strong), B ( Good ) C ( Satisfactory) Fail. Pluses and minuses may also be awarded.
Assignments should be essentially free of errors in discourse, grammar and spelling and should display an appropriate range of vocabulary. Assignment grades will reflect both content and appropriate level of English. Although consultation and using published resources is encouraged,
any plagiarised or copied assignments will be automatically failed. Teaching Practice Grades : As per assignment grades.
Past course participants have found the following books useful.
For Assignment 1 and Language Terminology
Either M. Parrot Grammar for English Language Teachers (Cambridge University
Press)
Or M. Swan Practical English Usage ( New Edition) (Oxford University
Press)
General Background Either J. Harmer How to Teach English (Longman)
Or J. Scrivener Learning Teaching (Heinemann)
Books Plus in Bisazza Str., Sliema is a leading ELT bookseller.
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*** Please note: Current regulations state that in order to teach EFL (ELT) in Malta every teacher needs to be in possession of a Permit to Teach EFL. This is issued by the EFL Monitoring Board at the Department of Education (Secretary: Mr Hugh Mizzi Tel. 25982496 hugh.e.mizzi@gov.mt ) to those applicants who satisfy the following requirements:
1 you have successfully undergone a recognised TEFL Induction Course (the Easy SLTEFL Course has been approved and recognised)
2 you are at least 18 years of age
3 you possess a Matriculation level of education (minimum)
4 you possess an A-level in English (or equivalent0
or a Pass in the TEFL examination offered by the Dept of Education from Nov 2004
5 a current Police Good Conduct Certificate
You do not need to possess these requirements in order to join the TEFL Course. Acceptance is at the discretion of the Director of Studies, who may ask to interview you in order to assess your level of spoken English. However, by the time you apply for a permit you will need to satisfy the other requirements.