Future sites in North Africa and elsewhere are in development. Additional learning opportunities and placement services help the program participants prepare for foreign study, travel, work, or research. Course Philosophy and Components TEFL International instructors promote an active learning style that emphasizes the needs of the learner.
Students work and live in a learning community where collaboration is stressed.
Classroom and practicum sessions encourage engagement and collective problem solving in ways that mirror English teaching techniques trainees will use in their teaching careers. Students learn how to use their previous education and life experiences to structure their English teaching syllabi. The following components describe the 4-week course. Foreign Language Experience. The trainees receive training in an unknown foreign language to reflect on the experience of being a learner, and how this might direct their own teaching.