Therefore, a vital feature of the Canterbury English TEFL Madrid teaching abroad programs is the 20 hours of observed practice teaching as well as the 20 hours of classes in the internship. During both modules, it’s all Practice, Practice, Practice. You also practice when you watch your classmates teach. When they make a mistake, you take note, so as to avoid that mistake yourself. When they do something memorable that works, you also take note and remember it to enhance your own classes.

In the first week of the class you are the observer of our model classes and you learn how to design a class, the techniques on how to correctly implement, and of course how to control, or rather guide the students in your class. Canterbury uses the well-known and successful ESL technique called the PPP Method. In phase one of PPP, Presentation, the Canterbury instructor presents the new information and uses examples, which would apply to the first week. In the second week you implement phase two of PPP, because you have gone from the passive observer to the doer.

Here you Practice what you have learned and in phase 3, Production, you use what you have learned and practiced to create lesson plans and teach a class. The Canterbury instructor will observe you and take notes to give you the necessary feedback so that you can keep improving your class Production. The PPP method is intuitive and easy for you to apply and is also very useful for you to use in your ESL classes.

All these precious experiences that you gain in the practice modules of the course add up to invaluable help on your way to you, yourself becoming an outstanding teacher, which is what the Canterbury English TEFL Spain program creates: Outstanding teachers. We believe in the Excellence of our teachers. That is why we entrust you with our best clients. That is why you are able to go around the world with our TEFL Spain certification and schools around the world know about the Canterbury English International TEFL Certificate. After twenty years of hiring our graduates, no wonder they know. There’s no doubt about it, “The proof is in the pudding!”

HOW TO BECOME AN ENGLISH TEACHER IN ORDER TO LIVE IN SPAIN

THE ART OF LESSON PLANNING

Why is lesson planning an art? Because a good lesson plan, with structure and substance, will allow you to pilot your student from A to B and to arrive at your class objective, the same way you get on a plane in New York and later on you touch down successfully in Madrid. A good lesson plan is an instrument, your own private jet that gets you there effortlessly. Because you constructed your lesson plan before the class and when you are in class you just fly it. The work was all done before the class started. That’s why you can work in Spain teaching english as a second language or as a foreign language. You can teaching abroad!

Our Canterbury English instructors will start by giving you example lesson plans, which you start to work with by deconstructing and then constructing all over again to get the hang of it. Just like a lego plane, you get out the plans and the pieces and create a model lesson plan and once you’ve done that and you get good at it, you can start introducing your own creative and original elements, which so essential in the making of a good teacher. Like a thumb print, no two are the same. No two good teachers are the same and no two good lesson plans are the same and the reason why is that no two students are the same. Therefore, we teach you to be original and creative in making your lesson plans and you show us this by producing many lesson plans during the course.