TEFL Skills Courses by EBC
Become certified in fundamental TEFL teaching abilities such as learning styles, classroom management, grammar, phonology, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening, speaking, and lesson planning. Each course is brief and intended for practical teaching applications.
EBC TEFL Skills Courses
Already teaching another subject? Enhance your abilities with our focused TEFL teaching courses.
Choose from low-cost, single-subject courses designed to improve your English teaching skills. Begin anytime. Each course costs €37 and includes a digital certificate of completion.
20-hour Short Course
Learning styles
What is learning all about, and how does it happen?
This course is essential for anyone who wants to teach. The course explains what learning is, how people learn and different learner profiles. This course covers the learning cycle, types of learners, influential teaching models, an introduction to lesson structures and presentation, ideas for presenting explanations and instructions, understanding language learning and using engage, study and activate (ESA) sequences.
Your EBC TEFL Pearls certificate in “Learning Styles” is available for download when you complete the course.
€37
20-hour Short Course
Motivation
Why is motivation important and how do you motivate your students?
Student motivation is crucial to your success as a teacher. It makes teaching and learning immeasurably easier and more pleasant, as well as more productive. A “motivated” student is willing or even eager to invest effort in learning activities and to progress. This course covers motivation, the teacher’s responsibility, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation and handling fluctuations in student interest.
Your EBC TEFL Pearls certificate in “Motivation” is available for download when you complete the course.
€37
20-hour Short Course
Classroom management
How do I manage my classroom?
Important classroom factors you must consider are how you present yourself as a teacher, relate to your students, ask the right questions, manage activities, provide feedback, and others. This course covers classroom interaction and management, classroom interaction, asking questions, concept checking, giving feedback, classroom discipline and teacher language, drilling and board work.
Your EBC TEFL Pearls certificate in “Classroom management” is available for download when you complete the course.
€37
20-hour Short Course
Lesson Planning
How do I plan effective and engaging lessons that motivate my students?
Find out how to plan effective and engaging lessons that motivate your students. We show how to organise lesson components, how to assess the effectiveness of your lesson and lots of practical ideas for classroom activities. This course covers how to plan effective lessons, the different lesson components, a critique of a sample lesson plan, what good lessons look like, ideas for planning lessons for different age groups and planning for classroom activities.
Your EBC TEFL Pearls certificate in “Lesson Planning” is available for download when you complete the course.
€37
20-hour Short Course
Grammar and Phonology
How do I teach grammar, language skills and phonology?
Grammar is essential for creating language structures that make sense. Here we deal with issues relating to grammar in general, grammatical structures, grammatical meaning, guidelines on presenting and explaining grammar and last but not least, grammar and its usage. This course introduces grammar, its structures, how they are used and thoroughly tests what you learn.
Your EBC TEFL Pearls certificate in “Grammar and Phonology” is available for download when you complete the course.
€37
20-hour Short Course
Teaching Vocabulary
How do I teach new vocabulary and the meaning of these new words?
Learning vocabulary and its meaning are essential for language learning. We look at the issues relating to teaching vocabulary and the type of classroom activities you can use. This unit covers presenting new vocabulary, ideas for vocabulary work in class, and getting your students to remember the vocabulary they learned.
Your EBC TEFL Pearls certificate in “Teaching Vocabulary” is available for download when you complete the course.
€37
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