Teacher Courses at English First

As well as teacher qualifications, EF offers a variety of teacher courses to help you develop the skills you need to deliver excellent classes. Courses cover everything from phonology to management, providing you with the fundamentals you need to improve as a teacher and forge a rewarding career in English language teaching.

What it's about

During your first months at EF English First, we work closely with you to ensure you are equipped with the teaching resources and knowledge to feel confident in the classroom. As our teachers progress in their jobs, EF’s teacher training team offers regular professional development training sessions to sharpen our teacher’s knowledge of the latest teaching methodology and techniques. All of our ESL job openings offer teachers the opportunity to take advantage of these teacher courses.

Online Teacher Courses that help your career

Teaching Phonology

You will learn how to offer students the most engaging and interactive ways to teach pronunciation and gain an understanding of theoretical knowledge and terminology to allow you to discuss features of pronunciation with other experienced teachers. With up to 16 peers, you will share your experiences, reflections and materials and observe each other teaching via the use of self-created online training videos.

Teaching Grammar

You will learn about the differences between deductive and inductive grammar teaching, sentence constituents, second language acquisition and debate the pros and cons of prescriptivist and descriptivist views of grammar. By the end of the course you will have a greater understanding of the systems of grammar, have attempted different methods of engaging students in learning grammar and understand how grammar is acquired. You will also have created a video showing a grammar activity in a class of your choosing and shared this with up to 16 of your peers online.

Teaching Lexis

You will learn about the linguistic aspect of language, experiment with different techniques in planning, presenting and practicing a range of vocabulary activities to engage, support and challenge your learners. You will complete weekly tasks which involve giving and receiving feedback from up to 16 peers on the course. By the end of the course you will have produced a video detailing a lexical activity that you use with
your students and share this online.

Reflective Practice

You will develop your teaching skills through self-reflection by keeping a reflective journal on your own development in a specific area of your classroom teaching. You will learn to
use different techniques which can be used to reflect and to collect data in your lessons. By the end of the course you will have produced a final report based on the data collected and analyzed in your journal which you can use as a stepping stone towards writing your EF Trinity Diploma portfolio or towards publication and will have shared this with up to 16 peers on the course.