The students in the class meet five days a week, Monday through Friday, from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon in the morning, learning theoretical topics related to teaching English as a foreign language; and from 12:30pm to 3:00pm (15:00 hr.) in the afternoon, putting into practice the topics learned in the morning. The practice teaching of real-life students is done sometime between 5:30 pm (17:30 hr.) and 9:00 pm (21:00 hr.) in the evening.
The TEFL theory portion of the course is of forty hours duration. The theory class meets everyday, Monday to Thursday, for 2.5 hours a day from 9:30 am until 12:00 noon, for four weeks. The TEFL practice portion of the course is also of forty hours duration, but it is divided into two equal modules of twenty hours each. The Children practice module meets every Monday and Wednesday, for 2.5 hours a day from 12:30 pm until 3:00 pm, for four weeks; and the Business English practice module meets every Tuesday and Thursday, for 2.5 hours a day from 12:30 pm until 3:00 pm, also for four weeks.
Thus, the course consists of forty hours learning theory in the mornings; forty hours of lesson planning, role plays, presentations, peer teaching and critiques in the afternoons; and forty hours of paid practice teaching classes out in the field in the evenings.
Note: This teaching of practice classes usually takes approximately eight weeks to schedule and complete.
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