ICL TESOL Course:

The International College of Linguistics TESOL Course is a four-week course for practising teachers of English who wish to refresh their English, look at current trends, reflect on their personal philosophy of education and be introduced to the Cambridge University Teaching Knowledge Test.

The aims of the course are to:

1. allow teacher-participants to gain or reinforce knowledge of concepts related to the practice of English language teaching and learning;
2. provide an introduction to the TKT award offered by Cambridge University in such a way that teacher-participants may choose to enter Module 2 of the qualification;
3. encourage teacher-participants in their professional development by providing opportunities to identify their own personal philosophy of education and identify current English language teaching  issues, trends and research;
4. facilitate  teacher-participants exchanging ideas about English language teaching;
5. create opportunities and requirements for teacher-participants to reflect in writing on their professional lives, past and future, and to keep records of their learning during the four-week course;
6. Those who do the weekend work will be able to reflect and consider the implications of foregrounding client needs.

The four-week course is run in July and August each year, or at any time for a closed group.  The course is available in two formats; standard and intensive.  The standard course contains 170 hours and the intensive course 200 hours.  The totals of hours include approximately one self-study hour for each classroom contact hour.  Each course has100 hours assigned to ESOL unit standards and then there are 70 hours or 100 hours respectively dedicated to education unit standards.