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.