Study Abroad Teaching English w/ TEFL & Spanish (1 year Visa Program)

When you arrive in Madrid, you begin the four week Canterbury English intensive TEFL certification program in which, as the days go by, you will begin to grow wings as a future English teacher. On the fourth week of the course (or after the course has finished), you will start to fly, as we give you real English classes (most students prefer to wait until after the TEFL program has finished) to teach with OUR CLIENTS, earning A WAGE!! With the invaluable tools we give you during the course, we trust you with our companies, adults and children and we know you will excell! If you wish, you can continue teaching abroad with these clients in Madrid for the rest of the school year.

After you have completed the four week TEFL program, you begin ten months (September to June) of in-person, on-site  Spanish classes. This, along with our medium to large size study groups, will help you make rapid progress in the idiom, because living in a country, immersed in its culture and surrounded by its language, as well as studying it, is the fastest way on Earth to become fluent. Becoming fluent in Spanish will be a golden feather to wear in your cap for the rest of your life! And speaking Spanish will help you get tefl jobs in foreign countries as well as Spain.

Soon after you arrive in Madrid and the Monday after you finish the TEFL course, you have WORK ORIENTATION with Richard and begin the ONE YEAR Spanish Course. On your work orientation day, you will be eligible to receive class offers, and can start teaching to EARN A WAGE as early as the FIRST NIGHT of work orientation. This is so important, because with this program you hit the ground running and you are earning money immediately. It means that you don’t have to wait a month or two before being farmed out by ALL THE OTHER PROGRAMS in Spain to finally acquire a job when your savings have almost gone dry. This is a key factor that will help you stay in Spain, because you have gained a crucial 30 to 45 days and will be able to support yourself much sooner than other programs.

And it’s so easy and smooth with Canterbury English, because we give you all the tools to get settled in a job fast, so you can enjoy Spain and your Spanish classes.  With a guaranteed job WITH US under your belt, you’re up and running almost immediately. During orientation, we give you  invaluable tools from the ONE YEAR STUDY ABROAD with TEFL and SPANISH COURSE, and we trust you with our companies, adults and children, because we know you will excel just as teachers have since our English Academy was founded in 1994!

After you have completed the WORK ORIENTATION with Richard, you begin ten months of Spanish classes at our Garcia Lorca Spanish School. This, along with our small to large study groups will help you make rapid progress in the idiom, because living in a country, immersed in its culture and surrounded by its language, as well as studying it, is the fastest way on Earth to become fluent. Becoming fluent in Spanish will be a golden feather to wear in your cap for the rest of your life!

The scheduling department of our English teaching academy is sending you class offers just about every day. Often you are sitting in class in our Spanish school and you receive a job offer from our English academy on your cell phone and all you have to do is respond, “I am free for this class” (because you know it fits your schedule) and bingo, you grab the offer and the class is yours. This system makes it much easier for you to receive more paid work to fill out your English class schedule and while you are in your Spanish class.

MORE SPECIFIC PROGRAM DETAILS

1. Ten months of Spanish classes (from September to June) at our Garcia Lorca Spanish School. Our live on-site, in-person classes take place during the week from 2 to 6 pm and cover A1 / A2 Spanish levels: The class size varies from as few as 3, to as many as 15 students, so you can benefit from small intimate classes as well as from larger dynamic classes, where you learn fast with our first rate Spanish teacher.

2. Accommodation assistance.

3. Buying a Spanish telephone.

4. The CE bible to opening a Spanish bank account in Madrid.

5. Guidance in getting your Spanish residency card and Social Security number. With this number you legally work in a school, can sign a contract, rent an apartment, and many more things.

7. E-information packs.

8. Guidance with the paperwork for your Spanish TIE Number.

9. For those who would like to work for Canterbury English as well as other schools, you can request a personal resume (CV) session for tips with the director.

10. Orientation on market hiring conditions such as pay rates, contract conditions and job interviews.

11. Orientation on interviewing at other schools to complete your schedule (a full-time schedule is between 25 and 30 hours of teaching a week).

12. Contact details to send your CV to hundreds of other language schools.

13. Through the Garcia Lorca Spanish Culture club run by our Spanish Social Events Coordinator and the Canterbury English Club run by our founder Richard, you will be meeting other graduates, making friends and building up a social network of ex-pats living in Madrid!

14. During the Madrid Lifestyle course you become part of the Canterbury English family, a real bona-fida home away from home, as well as starting what could develop into a long term relationship, depending on how long you want to stay in Madrid.

Some of our current teachers did one of our programs over a decade ago and we still meet and go to Canterbury English Club events together and enjoy each others company.

CERTIFICATION

The Garcia Lorca Spanish School Ten Month Certificate, Madrid, Spain, created in 2000.

JULY/AUGUST SUMMER CAMP OPTION (INCLUDED IN PROGRAM FEE)

After teaching in Madrid for Canterbury English during the school year from when you arrive until to June, you will need a summer job to get through the summer, because classes in Madrid slow down during the summer months.

Canterbury English teachers will need our guaranteed summer camp placement job in the summer and for you, this is one of the key pillars of our one year Madrid Lifestyle Program and is included in the program fee. Come and start teaching abroad!

In July and August you will be working in a summer camp near the beautiful and monumental city of the conquistadores called Caceres, which is in the province of Extremadura, Spain. Instructors will be working with campers from age 12 to 17 over the course of July and August.

The position will pay a total of 1.200€ (or 2.400€ if you teach two months) in cash, with housing and three meals per day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) included.

Much of the time spent with campers will be enjoying activities including games in the outdoors, hiking and trekking, swimming, music and drama. This provides a great and unique opportunity to meet new people and make new friends for both the kids and instructors. The camp is all day, from breakfast at 9am in the morning until bedtime at night, but there is time to rest during the day, because there are many instructors and you take turns for breaks and siestas.

In the camps, there is one instructor for every 4 or 5 children. The tasks to be performed would be English classes in the morning and for the rest of the day games, being with the kids at the swimming pool, taking them on nature hikes, canoeing, archery, drama productions, etc. If you have a particular skill, such as playing the guitar, singing, crafts making, playing any other instrument, juggling, etc, then this will be very welcome.

We would love you to spend the whole two month of July and August with us (getting the real deal on our english teaching jobs in spain). But, in the case that you are not available for the four weeks, you also have the option to join us for two weeks and earn 600€.