i-TESOL

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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS:

SGIC Admission Test or Completed English High Intermediate level at SGIC or TOEFL iBT 79 and up / IELTS 6+ (Oral test required)

DURATION

1 semester (100hrs)

COURSE CONTENT:

Comprehensive Program: Students are taught a range of past teaching technique to up-to-date methodologies for all levels and all skills of English with ample opportunity to practice them in the classroom while building confidence in delivering English presentations.

CLT Model: Communicative Language Teaching is the model of the course in which students learn by interaction and apply this model to their own lesson-planning.

Ongoing Consultation &Feedback: Teachers consult students one-to-one after each major project and presentation making the feedback always personal and useful.

Comfortable Class Atmosphere: Creating and maintaining a pleasant class environment where students are encouraged to take risks is our main protocol.

Stimulating Curriculum: Students are never bored with a variety of workshops; academic studies are well-intergrated with in-class teaching practice; students are continuously challenged to think like ESL teachers while improving their own ESL skills.

TKT Preparation: Students are thoroughly prepared to sit the TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) issued by Cambridge University; TKT certificates are recognized world-wide and provide an excellent building block for further development in the TESOL field.

COURSE OUTCOME:

Teaching Confidence &Leadership Skills: Students will build confidence in teaching and managing beginner & intermediate classes in all English skills. They will learn how to deal with classroom difficulties.

ESL Teaching Skills: Students acquire the skill to think like a teacher and to plan and apply lessons to students of all abilities and understand the role of the teacher in an ESL classroom.

Self-knowledge: Students will understand how to evaluate and improve their teaching abilities and further develop their qualifications and experience.