TEFL Certification Courses in Eastern Europe - Bell Sofia

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Location

Bulgaria: Sofia

Length of Position: CELTA - 4 weeks; YL to CELTA - 2 weeks

Description

Internationally recognized TEFL certificate courses run by Avo-Bell Sofia since 2002, a quality benchmark in English language teaching and teacher training in Bulgaria.

Avo-Bell Langauge and Examination Centre is the only educational centre in Bulgaria to be associate partner of Bell Cambridge and to be awarded nine areas of excellence by EAQUALS Accreditation in 2013.

Don't miss the opportunity to develop your teaching skills and to experience the atmosphere of one of the oldest European capital cities. Our professional and very supportive team of CELTA tutors will help you achieve your full potential as a prospective teacher, and also enrich your multicultural experience.

2013 CELTA course dates:

* 1 November - 28 November 2013 (registrations in progress)

2014 CELTA course dates:

* 26 February - 26 March 2014
* 1 April - 30 April 2014
* 2 July - 29 July 2014
* 6 August - 2 September 2014
* 5 November - 2 December 2014

2014 Young Learner (YL) Extension to CELTA. course dates:

* 9 July - 22 July 2014

Highlights

What makes OUR CELTA courses both effective and stimulating?

1. We adopt a highly personal approach towards every participant.
2. We put extra effort in developing participants’ lesson planning and classroom management skills.
3. We increase trainees’ marketability by giving a special TEFL career workshop (career advice, personal CV guidance, TEFL recruiter contacts)
4. We offer a highly competitive package with accommodation included for the duration of the stay
5.We guarantee very high standard of training and service through our EAQUALS Accreditation (with nine areas of excellence in 2013).

Components of the CELTA course:

1. Teaching practice (TP)
Each trainee will have 6 hours of TP over the course. The groups rotate during the course, so teaching is assessed at two different levels, ranging from elementary to upper-intermediate. TP is observed by a course tutor and by the members of the TP group.

2. Supervised Lesson Planning
It is a valuable opportunity for trainees to talk to TP tutors about the lesson they intend to teach the following day/week. At the beginning of the course, trainees receive detailed guidelines from their supervisors as to content and appropriate procedures for their TP lessons. This guidance gradually diminishes as the course goes on and TP groups become responsible for planning and preparing their own lessons.

3. Feedback on Teaching Practice
It is given in the form of summary notes from the TP tutor and in a post-lesson discussion with the TP tutor and the rest of the TP group. It is very useful to hear other people's comments (tutors and peers) about your teaching style, as well as learn from the lessons of other trainees.

4. Observation
Each trainee will observe 6 hours of teaching done by experienced teachers in addition to observing fellow trainees during TP.

5. Input sessions
Input sessions tend to be seminars/workshops rather than lectures and cover three broad areas: language awareness, methodology, and professionalism.

6. Written work
There will be four assessed written assignments of a practical nature. In addition to these assignments, trainees are required to hand in their lesson plans for TP and language analysis sheets.

Assessment

You will be assessed throughout the course, with no final examination. The two main components of the continuous assessment are:

1. Teaching Practice - internally assessed by the course tutors and externally moderated by a Cambridge ESOL- approved assessor
2. Written Assignments -internally assessed and each candidate must complete all the four assignments.
The grades awarded are Pass, Pass B and Pass A.