TEYL Certificate (Teaching English to Young Learners)
Who is this course good for?
- Gap-year students
- People who love traveling around the world and who want to make a living while teaching English.
- Those who are teaching English to Young Learners but do not have any kind of training.
- People who are moving overseas
- ESL teachers who are teaching overseas and have been offered a job to teach young learners
- International ESL students of an advanced level of English who either want to teach children in the home countries or want to improve their English skills
- Non-native English teachers who have experience teaching English to kids and want to obtain a certificate from a Canadian TESOL course provider.
Course Entry Requirements:
For the TEYL Certificate program a candidate needs to have a good general education up to the generally accepted level for university entrance. Applicants without formal qualifications who have the ability to communicate clearly in English will also be considered.
It is recommended that candidates have either taken a TESOL course or have some kind of experience teaching children. The minimum age limit is 20 years old.
Aims of the Course:
For the TEYL Certificate program the overall aim is to develop skills and confidence in working with young learners, familiarize with the approach that best suit children’s learning styles as well as adding an invaluable bonus to your CV or résumé and network with other TESOL graduates.
General Objectives:
The general objectives of the course require each student to be able to:
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Demonstrate a basic understanding of the different approaches to teaching English to young learners
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Demonstrate a basic understanding of lesson planning using different approaches and techniques
Requirements:
Candidates are required to successfully complete all the assignments contained in the 13 modules of the online TEYL Certificate program (See syllabus content).
Syllabus Content:
The course consists of 9 modules and 10 tasks, including reflective tasks on certain topics and lesson plan development. See syllabus in detail below:
Inadequacies of the Behaviorist Approach
The Development of Inflections and Function Words
The Grammatical Development of Children
Cognitive Factors in First Language Acquisition
The Development of Transformations
The Language Environment of the Child
Theoretical Approaches to Explaining First Language Learning
Module 3: Language versus Acquisition
Direct Method
Audio-Lingual Approach
Communicative Language Teaching
Task 3: Complete Chart on Different Approaches
Module 4: Approaches to Language Teaching - Part 2
Whole Language
Task 5: Pre-Task Phase
Lesson Development
Using Different Approaches
PPP Framework
TTT Framework
TBL Framework
Syllables
Task 9: Teaching Pronunciation - Explaining Sounds
Module 8: Storytelling
Techniques
Integrating Skills
Module 9: Multiple Intelligences Theory
Application to ESL
Task 10: Final Project: Lesson Planning Using Storytelling and Multiple Intelligences
This is a 60-hour online course which must be completed in a period of 8 weeks. The material is contained in a pdf document called TEYL in Action!, which you can certainly print out to have all of it at hand for reading assignments and making your own portfolio.
Online Tutor
You will be assigned an experienced tutor for this course. The communication between you and your tutor will be done via email. Administration will contact you with your tutor details so that you can start communicating with him/her as soon as possible.
The course focuses on approaches, methods and techniques involved in teaching young learners. We encourage you to reflect on the material and participate actively with questions, suggestions and ideas.
Certificate
After successful completion of all assignments, you will receive a TEYL Certificate awarded by Ontesol. You will also receive a letter of recommendation detailing the course content and your individual performance in all course aspects.
Duration: This course takes a minimum of 60 hours to complete within a period of 8 weeks.
Upgrading
You can upgrade to the Certificate in the Theory and Methodology of TESOL in a later stage if you would like to obtain ACTDEC Level 3 Certificate or TESL Canada Professional Certification Standard 2. Please check course entry requirements before applying for this course.
Price: $ 199 CND
