International Teacher Training Organization

This is a list of the course content required for obtaining certification with ITTO.

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Topics covered include:

· The role of the teacher with regard for promoting effective learning.

· To consider ways in which we can maximize student interaction in the classroom.

· Effective strategies for Classroom Management in relation to eye contact, gesture, voice, student grouping, pre-lesson preparation, rapport with students, using the board, behavior management.

· Skills needed in the presentation of materials: the board, the flip chart, prepared cards.

· Maintaining discipline

· Giving instructions

TEACHING SKILLS

This is a highly practical element of the course where trainees consider:

· The essential ingredients of a well planned lesson The relationship between language structure and vocabulary

· Strategies for teaching vocabulary

· Effective strategies for correcting students mistakes

· Specific issues concerned with teaching beginners

· Ways to introduce and use a variety of language games

· Ideas for oral communicative language learning activities

· Ways to present a methodological model for teaching receptive skills (listening and reading)

· Ways to present a methodological model for teaching productive skills (writing and speaking)

· Models for introducing new language structures (grammar)

· Specific issues involved in teaching Business English

· The principles underpinning good assessment

LANGUAGE AWARENESS (GRAMMAR)

This section of the course aims to consolidate trainee's knowledge of the English grammar system and provides practical ideas as to how it can be taught.

Some different aspects of grammar covered include:

• The tense system
• Nouns/adjectives
• Verbs/adverbs
• Infinitives
• Gerunds
• Parts of speech
• Modal auxiliary verbs
• Conditionals
• Relative clauses
• Phrasal verbs
• Teaching pronunciation
• Phonetics

PHONOLOGY

Focuses on areas such as stress, intonation, rhythm and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

UNKNOWN LANGUAGE

Trainees are put into the position of language students and will be taught an unknown foreign language class. This gives trainees an opportunity to view lessons as a student and note techniques used by the teacher when teaching beginners.

TEACHING PRACTICE

The most practical and important element of the course. Trainees teach genuine EFL students following an official curriculum, the latter is extremely important, since many other training centers around the world recruit volunteers for trainees' teaching practices

All teaching practices 10-hrs. minimum, (six are the international standard), fully observed, constructively critiqued and graded by our trainers. The emphasis is on progression and trainees are expected to address issues raised during feedback.