| Certificates Types | EF Education was founded by Bertil Hult in Lund, Sweden in 1965. Its goal was to bridge cultural gaps and break down barriers of language and geography by promoting educational travel, intercultural exchange and language learning. Today, EF Education is the world’s largest private educational organization. We are a multi-national group of companies and non-profit organizations with over 3,000 administrative staff and 20,000 teachers at work in 50 countries. Each year 2,000,000 people learn a language with EF.
Education is emerging as one of the world’s largest growth industries and EF is at the forefront. That’s why the number of educational programs is growing. Throughout all our programs - whether we are taking children abroad for the first time, teaching business English around the corner from your office, or sharing the world with students online - our mission remains the same: to offer quality learning experiences to people all over the world.
EF English First Teacher Recruitment & Training runs quality certificate level courses in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in the UK, Canada and the USA. It’s quite prolific and popular. Graduates from the EF Certificate in TEFL courses have the opportunity to apply for a teaching position in one of over 200 international franchise schools through their South African based recruitment agents (Youth Development Programs) www.ydp.co.za. EF English First owns has a network of schools that are based in 14 different abroad countries.
The EF Certificate in TEFL is an intensive 4-week full time or 12 week part time course so you should have no outside commitments during this time. You will have to study for 7 hours per day plus you will get tasks for weekends and rest days. In the morning input sessions our trained and qualified teacher trainers focus on language awareness, teaching and learning contexts, planning, classroom practice and materials.
During the sessions in the real classrooms you will get experience how to teach to real students; so the experience is quite realistic and necessary for every future English teacher. All teaching practice sessions are observed by our experienced team of trainers who will provide you with constructive feedback and will help you to explore your developing awareness as teachers. Not more that 12 trainees can be taken to one course that is done for the purpose of good student’s attention during the course.
Over the four-week period trainees will be assessed on the following components:
1 – Teaching Practice (& the Teaching Practice Journal) - 50% of the final assessment is on the trainee’s ability in the classroom and their awareness as a teacher through the medium of observation and reflective journal writing.
2 – Learner Profile – this project is written up after 2 or 3 sessions with a learner of English; assessing their needs as a learner and planning and teaching a one-to-one lesson to address those needs.
3 – Unknown Language Journal – this project is primarily about learning and teaching - we offer 3 input sessions where we teach a language none of the trainees know - the trainees are expected to analyse how the group responds to a variety of learning activities.
4 – Materials Project – the trainees select two pieces of material they have taught and present them to an experienced member of staff explaining how they would use them in class.
5 – Language Awareness Test – in the final week of the course there is a short language awareness test reflecting the input on English grammar, phonology (pronunciation) and vocabulary.
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