The Language Institute at the Granary Learning Centre will run its foreign language teaching course for a third time beginning in February. This course is for people who wish to teach a language outside the public school system, in a commercial language school, by giving grinds, or by taking private students. The course is based on the universal principles of language teaching and is for those thinking of teaching Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, or any other language.
The classes will meet for two hours one evening each week over 10 weeks and will be taught by a highly experienced teacher trainer. A certificate will be awarded at the completion of the course. This is not a TEFL course and no teachers of English will participate. The classs will be made up entirely of teachers of other languages.
The idea for developing this course occurred from within the Granary Learning Centre. “We teach 11 languages outside of English here in the Language Institute,” said Phil James, director of the Granary Learning Centre. “It occurred to us that while all of our English teachers have done the TEFL course and are using a uniform method of teaching, our foreign language teachers use differing methods depending on their educational background. We decided to try running a training course using a teacher from a language training background and where the students all teach different languages. It worked extremely well and now we want to run it again and invite members of the public to participate.”
The course is very interactive and great fun. As well as getting the benefit of the teacher trainer’s experience the participant also gains much from the experiences of the other students. You can find out more about the teacher training course at The Language Institute of the Granary Learning Centre by phoning (091 ) 566759, emailing [email protected], or by visiting www.languageinstitute.ie
