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Our Winchester TEFL course takes place full time over 4 weeks or part-time (2 evenings per week, plus alternate Saturdays) over a 16 week period. It is a Trinity CertTESOL course and fully accredited by Trinity College London

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Unlike many courses which have little real value, the CertTESOL (Trinity Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is an internationally recognised qualification which opens doors to the best TEFL jobs in the UK and abroad.

It is fully accredited by Trinity College London and accredited at Level 5 on the UK National Qualification Framework. The British Council (a branch of the Foreign Office tasked with promoting English language and culture) recognises this qualification when inspecting UK language schools and the majority of language schools abroad and serious online providers welcome it.


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A sample of a week's timetable for the part-time course:

(the full-time and part-time courses have exactly the same syllabus)

Saturday

  • 0900 - 1030
    Learner profile: needs analysis
  • 1030 - 1045
    Break
  • 1045 - 1215
    TEFL in the digital age - online resources
  • 1215 - 1245
    Lunch
  • 1245 - 1430
    Language Analysis - past tenses

Monday

  • 1800 - 1930
    Teaching skills: Accuracy vs. fluency
  • 1930 - 1945
    Break
  • 1945 - 2100
    Teaching Skills: Teaching speaking

Wednesday

  • 1800 - 2015
    Teaching Practice
  • 2015 - 2030
    Break
  • 2030 - 2130
    Teaching Practice feedback

TEFL Course Structure

The Winchester TEFL course components consist of five units of learning: teaching skills (this is naturally the weightiest unit), language awareness, creating a learner profile, a materials assignment (which is externally assessed by a Trinity moderator) and a unit which involves learning an unknown language, so that trainees can experience and learn from being on the other side of the classroom. There is no final exam. Your work for all units except the materials assignment will be assessed by your trainer.

Teaching Practice

Teaching Practice

You will teach for a minimum of six hours, and this will be continuously assessed. Each teaching session will be followed by constructive advice and suggestions and you will also have the opportunity to observe lessons given by our experienced tutors.

Written Assignments

Written Assignments

You will be asked to complete two written assignments, one creating a learner profile and the other an evaluation and adaptation of materials. These two assignments bring together much of what is covered in the teaching skills and language awareness components of the course.

Coursework Assignments

Coursework Assignments

You will complete two coursework assignments: an observation journal (based on the guided observations of experienced teachers) and one unknown foreign language journal.

Test

Test

Language awareness and phonology tests will be given at the end of the course.

I was thoroughly stimulated by this course and enjoyed it immensely. I am now capable of producing a well thought out, appropriate and stimulating lesson that will help students of English to achieve their linguistic aims.
Alison Hedger, who took our course and now carries out regular assignments for English Naturally

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