How will I get my teaching practice?

Over the course, you will practice teaching a variety of classes under supervision of the tutors.  These practice teaching sessions are invaluable to your training as a teacher.  There are three different kinds of teaching practice opportunities you will have over the course, each under supervision.  The sessions give you the opportunity to get feedback on your teaching from the tutor and try your hand at a variety of different styles and approches to teaching.

Peer teaching

You will be required to teach at least three separate sessions in the group with your classmates.  Although your classmates are not language learners, this opportunity to teach them provides you with a safe, relatively stress free environment to try your hand at the basics of teaching practice that you will be expected to have mastered once you finish the course.  For each of these peer teaching sessions, the peers in your class, and the tutor responsible will provide you with feedback on how to develop your teaching repertoire.

Teaching Practice

Local office workers in the immediate vacinity of the training centre are offered classes at a nominal fee in the evenings after work. These classes will give you a great opportunity to practice your teaching on real learners in a typical learning environment.  The learners pay the low cost of the lesson and are aware that the teachers are trainees under observation of the tutor, and are happy to enjoy the lessons as you grow as a teacher.  Over the course period, you will teach at least four of these lessons. Support with planning and execution of these lessons will be provided by the tutor, and each lesson is recorded for you to view afterwards with the tutor to get some feedback.

Rural school visit

At the end of course, we will visit a rural school, home to orphans from impoverished regions of the country.  These children, ranging in age from 5 to 18, love learning English and enjoy the time they spend with you.  For this visit, you will teach two lessons in the school, and observe another participant teaching their lesson.  This excursion to the orphanage school will give you valuable experience in working with young learners and provide a meaningful contribution to the community at the same time.

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