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Course Overview
What Is CertTESOL?
The Trinity Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CertTESOL) provides you with an excellent foundation for a career in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). The CertTESOL is equivalent to CELTA and is recognised worldwide. It is accredited at Level 5 on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF). One important feature of the Trinity CertTESOL is that it includes a minimum of 6 hours classroom teaching and at least 10 hours of classroom observations of both peers and qualified teachers.
Who Is It For?
Early-career teachers - build confidence and direction.
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Experienced educators - work through specific professional challenges.
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Aspiring trainers and leaders - explore your next career step.
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Education professionals - get an experienced outside perspective.
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Course Overview
Part-Time Cert-TESOL Course (TEFL and CELTA Equivalent)
The Trinity CertTESOL is recognised worldwide. As an initial qualification, it’s a popular choice for those embarking on a career in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), but it’s equally useful for those with experience in teaching other subjects, or those looking to consolidate their existing English language teaching skills. It provides a firm foundation, equipping you with essential knowledge and highly practical skills to set you on your way in your English language teaching career. The course involves over 130 hours of contact time and includes six hours of observed teaching practice with international English language students.
The part-time course is 12 weeks long, on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and most Saturdays (all day).
What You'll Get
Part-time (12 weeks)
Course length: 130 hours
Maximum class size: 12
Become a qualified EFL teacher
Internationally recognised qualification
No prior teaching experience required
Theory and teaching practice
Choice of in-school or online course
Component
Skills
Format
Duration
UK training weeks, dates TBC.
Reading & Writing
Online, supervised by the school
30 minutes
Examiner Assessment
Listening & Speaking
Face-to-face at school or online
~10 minutes
Course Overview
Content
Input Sessions
The course begins with an exploration into theories behind learning and second language acquisition, and a brief overview of some English grammar. However, most of your language awareness will develop as you prepare for and teach your lessons. Your input sessions will focus more on developing skills and techniques for the classroom and will introduce you to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and pronunciation teaching. Along with all of this, and as you get to grips with lesson planning, you will then start to notice how this translates into the classroom.
You’ll learn a ‘mystery language’ over three sessions and analyse the experience as both a student and a teacher, which will form the basis of your first assignment. For your second assignment you will work with an international student and will interview, record, assess, teach and prescribe a tailor-made course for them.
Observed Teaching Practice
One of the biggest advantages of our course is that you will have the chance to teach a class of international students. Following an opening period of only input sessions, teaching practice will start taking up the majority of your time on the course. After meeting and placing the students by level, you will deliver one 30-minute lesson, followed by two 45-minute lessons and four 60-minute lessons (all observed).
Each lesson will conclude with a feedback session with a tutor and some of your peers. Shortly after, you will write a short reflection of your lesson considering the feedback you received (not discounting your own!). Every time you teach you will be expected to design materials for your lesson. Towards the end of the course you will select one piece of material from one of your lessons and evaluate its effectiveness