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Tue May 2024 |
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Level 5 |
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| Short description |
The TEFL YL course aims to prepare teachers for the specific challenges of working with young learners. This course is in high demand since many schools and kindergartens around the world are now focusing on language teaching for young children.
The course is specifically designed to help teaching children. Ideally the candidate should have some previous experience teaching English to adults as the course is not about teaching language but about learning new skills. |
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| Outcomes |
- Understand the unique needs and characteristics of young language learners.
- Develop age-appropriate lesson plans and activities tailored to young learners.
- Implement effective classroom management strategies for young learners.
- Utilise engaging teaching techniques to foster language acquisition in young learners.
- Incorporate games, songs, and storytelling into language lessons for young learners.
- Adapt teaching materials and resources to suit the learning styles of young learners.
- Cultivate a supportive and inclusive learning environment for young language learners.
- Enhance assessment methods suitable for evaluating young learners' language proficiency.
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| Requirements |
- minimum age: 18 although some course providers specify 20 or 21.
- educational background and qualifications: enough to allow trainees to enter higher education in their own countries.
- excellent competence in spoken and written English. Speakers of English as a second or additional language should have a minimum overall ability at B2 (CEFR).
- demonstrate an ability to learn how to explain the relevant features of English to young learners and teach these in a communicative context.
- willingness to work cooperatively as a member of the training group and respond constructively to feedback on personal performance.
- An initial teacher education qualification, eg a CELTA, Trinity CertTESOL, Certificate in TEFL, or local state sector qualification, and ideally a minimum of 6 months teaching experience, some of which should be in a young learner context.
- OR Teaching experience (preferably least one year), some of which should ideally be in a young learner context.
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