Online TEFL Courses

Master Diploma in TEFL

$449.00 $199.00
Master Diploma Course

Master Diploma Details

Our Master Diploma course is an advanced online TEFL (Level 5 equivalent) training course. It takes you beyond the 120-hour certificate – giving you that competitive edge.

This course includes 5 specialist TEFL modules, so this is the course for you if you want to earn that bit extra. Cover virtually all bases, teaching adults, young learners, business English courses and individuals. You will even be ready to teach English students online. On top of it all, we´ll help you with those tricky grammar points and ease your fears.

The Master Diploma is ideal if you wish to extend your professional experience and accept new responsibilities as it not only demonstrates a commitment to the profession but is also proof of your ability. You may be looking for an opportunity to increase your understanding of the principles and practice of English Language teaching to help improve your overall performance in the classroom. As part of this process, the Master Diploma Course encourages you to analyse your existing practices and beliefs. It also helps you to apply the results of your learning and reflection both to your current professional life and to contexts beyond your present and previous teaching experience. Fastrack your career with this comprehensive 300-hour course and clinch that dream English teaching job.

 Course Aims

For the Master Diploma programme as a whole, the overall aim is to provide an advanced distance training course in the theory, methodology and Management of teaching English as a Foreign Language. With the online learning course, you can enrol and begin the programme at any time during the academic year – whenever it suits you! This course aims to provide you with new insights into language teaching, providing a deeper understanding of the principles and practice of English language teaching to foreign young learners and adults. The focus of the course is on both practical and theoretical aspects of English Language Teaching and will prepare you for an exciting and rewarding career in many different locations around the globe!

 Course Objectives

The general objectives of the course require you to be able to:

  • Demonstrate a thorough grasp of the main phonological, lexical, syntactical and other aspects of modern communicative English, with particular reference to its roles as a means of communication.
  • Predict with reasonable accuracy the learning needs of any group of ESOL, ESL, or ESP learners and to modify and update such a needs analysis in the light of observation and testing.
  • Write instructional objectives and prepare appropriate lesson plans.
  • Teach English effectively at any level from beginners to advanced.
  • Discuss intelligently an extensive repertoire of lesson forms.
  • Monitor his or her own effectiveness as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language.
  • Manage other teachers, timetabling, course development, assessment, testing, recruitment, policies and procedures, development plans.

 

Course Assessment

Wondering how your progress will be evaluated? You´ll submit a quiz/assignment after having completed all the learning content in each module. Each module includes up-to-date materials, videos and real teaching scenarios. Your tutor will provide detailed feedback with your marked quiz/assignment.

How will the course prepare you?

In many ways, an online TEFL course is actually more effective than a full-time course. Not only is the online course longer but it also takes a more theoretical approach to teacher training that will benefit you throughout your career. It will give you a solid foundation to build upon, adding experience and further qualifications if and when you desire.

Every module will take you through a different aspect of teaching abroad, giving you all the time you need to take the information in. While the full-time course devotes a significant portion of its study time to planning and giving lessons, the online course ensures that you fully understand TEFL methodology so that when you take up your first teaching position you can apply it in the classroom.

You may find that your first days of actual teaching are challenging but the rewards of an online course extend far beyond simply preparing you for the first week. Indeed, the in-depth content of the online course is something you will come back to again and again. Your thorough understanding of TEFL theory and methodology will be invaluable as you progress through your career and will enable you to quickly develop and excel within your new role.

What’s more, the online TEFL course will enable you to better understand the needs of your class and to assess individual members more effectively to ensure that they are receiving the help that they need. The most prominent debate surrounding online TEFL courses is the complete absence of practical teaching experience. If you’re planning to work abroad for more than a year however, your online course will be perfectly complemented by the practical teaching experience you will receive.

And there´s more:

  • A personal tutor
  • Courses available 24/7
  • An array of library resources
  • Help with your resume/C.V.
  • Many bonus TEFL e-books
  • Lots of lesson plans to get you started
  • We´ll verify your enrolment & certification
  • Help to find that job

Course Features

  • Tutor Supported
  • Modules10
  • Duration250 hours
  • Skill levelall
  • LanguageEnglish
  • FeedbackYes

You may feel a bit daunted by the 250-hour Master Diploma course at first – but there really is no need. The course is broken down into manageable modules and before you know it, you´ll be fleeting off to some far-flung teaching destination.

Don´t forget that you can choose the pace at which you work through the Master Diploma course and have 12 months to complete the course. Not to worry if you need a little help with bits of the course – your tutor is always at hand to help. This course covers all the modules contained in the 120-hour course and then some. Want to know what you´ll be covering? Well, here´s a brief outline:

  • The English Language
  • Approaches to Teaching Methodology
  • Receptive Skills: Teaching Reading and Listening
  • Productive Skills: Teaching Writing and Speaking
  • Teaching Phonetics & Phonology
  • Teaching Vocabulary (Lexis)
  • Teaching Grammar (Syntax)
  • Lesson Planning and use of teaching resources and materials
  • Classroom Management, Options and Techniques
  • The Nuts & Bolts of English
  • English Tense Forms
  • English Tense Functions
  • Vocabulary and Phonology
  • Analysing and recognizing the needs of your business students
  • Organising effective communication in a business classroom
  • Teaching business vocabulary
  • Taking into account the cultural differences of your students
  • Planning a business lesson
  • The motivation of young learners
  • Activities and games for the Young Learner
  • Initial English lessons
  • Creating and adapting your materials and lesson ideas
  • Teaching methodology
  • Advantages of one-to-one learning
  • Discovering your student’s needs
  • Problems and possible solutions of one-to-one teaching
  • Creating and adapting your materials and lesson ideas
  • Lesson resources
  • Assessment and testing
  • Technology in the classroom
  • Marking Schemes
  • English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
  • Describing Teachers
  • Further Teacher Learning
  • Observation as a Learning Tool
  • Evaluating your Teaching
  • The Nature of English Language Schools
  • The ESL Manager
  • An Overview of the ESL Programme
  • Philosophy, Aims and Objectives
  • Development Plans and Target Setting
  • ESL Policies and Procedures
  • Business Practices in Language Schools
  • Student Services and Support
  • First Day Activity: Getting to know you
  • A Warmer / Communication Activity
  • A Listening Lesson
  • Teaching a Grammatical Structure
  • A Communication Lesson
  • The advantages and challenges of teaching online
  • How to get started as an online teacher of English
  • How to sell yourself as an online teacher
  • TPR in online teaching
  • Video for online teaching
  • Classroom set-up
  • Using props
  • Work opportunities for online English teachers
  • Will I need a TEFL Certificate?
  • Can I teach English abroad?
  • Where can I teach English abroad?
  • Finding an English teaching job abroad

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Requirements & Duration

Are there any course requirements?

  • You´ll need to have excellent English language skills.
  • Having a degree isn´t necessary but it´ll certainly help when looking for teaching jobs.
  • As the course is online, you´ll need access to the internet.
  • Adobe Reader/Word processor

 

How long will this all take?

You could be done and dusted in around 4 to 8 weeks – some folks are even faster! If you´d like a little more time, then no problem – you´ll have a full 6 months to finish up.

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