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12-hour Live TESOL / TEFL Module

Get all the benefits of a quality in-class course from the comfort of your home. Attend live classes with other peers via Zoom.

Add live classes to your self-paced online TESOL / TEFL course

The 12-hour Live TESOL/TEFL Module adds an interactive virtual experience to the self-paced grammar, phonology, and methodology modules in the 168-hour Hybrid TEFL Certificate course.

How it Works

Combine flexible asynchronous learning with a live interactive experience

The 12-hour Live TESOL / TEFL module is a series of 6 live classes via Zoom. The same series is offered every month on fixed dates. Students can attend any monthly session when they reach the respective module in the online TESOL / TEFL course. Students are not restricted to attending all the modules the same month, so they have the flexibility to attend the live sessions any time during the course.

What’s Included in the 12-hour Live TESOL / TEFL Module?

The unique semi-synchronous format offered by OnTESOL allows you to study TESOL/TEFL online and attend live classes with other peers at your own pace.

  • 10-hour Lesson Planning Workshop (4 sessions)
  • 1-hour Grammar Tutorial
  • 1-hour Phonology Tutorial

10-hour Lesson Planning Workshop

The 10-hour Lesson Planning Workshop is a series of four (4) live workshops offered via Zoom. Each workshop consists of 2.5 hours of live training covering the materials related to the Lab Assignments in the OnTESOL courses.

Each workshop includes a live lecture presented by our Senior Teacher Trainers to review the communicative and task-oriented ESL lesson planning frameworks used for teaching different skills and levels that we cover in our self-paced and hybrid online TESOL / TEFL courses. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask the trainer live questions and participate in practical group activities (See syllabus below).

Workshop Schedule:

Methodology Module: You will have access to the live workshops after passing assignment 2 in methodology. Each monthly series of the 10-hour workshops includes four live workshops totalling 10 hours. Every month, a new series starts with Workshop 1 on the first Tuesday of the month and ends with Workshop 4 on the fourth Tuesday of the month. All live classes are on Tuesdays at 6pm-8:30pm (GMT-4 Toronto Time).

Week 120-hr / 168-hr Methodology 250-hr Methodology Date
W# 1 Assignment 3 Assignment 6 and 7 First Tuesday of each month
W# 2 Assignment 4 Assignment 11 Second Tuesday of each month
W# 3 Assignment 4 Assignment 14 Third Tuesday of each month
W# 4 Assignment 5 Assignment 18 Fourth Tuesday of each month

Tuesdays, 6 pm – 8:30 pm (Eastern Time)

Syllabus

Workshop 1: Lesson Planning Formats Overview with a Focus on PPP Grammar Lessons

Unlock the art of crafting effective and engaging ESL lesson plans in this interactive workshop. Ideal for both new and experienced educators, this session provides a structured approach to planning and executing effective ESL lessons.

Key Areas of Focus:

  • The Role of Lesson Plans in Effective Teaching: Examine the critical importance of well-constructed lesson plans in achieving pedagogical goals and ensuring student success.
  • Adapting to Your Classroom: Explore how your learners’ needs, proficiency levels, and teaching contexts influence your lesson planning approach.
  • Types of Lessons and Their Applications: Differentiate between language-focused and skills-focused lessons while addressing the integration of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation with key skills such as reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
  • Developing S.M.A.R.T. Objectives: Understand the significance of Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound objectives in lesson planning and the potential challenges of poorly defined goals.
  • Utilizing Lesson Plan Templates: Gain practical insights into using structured templates for organizing language-focused lessons, particularly for grammar instruction.
  • Exploring Lesson Formats: From the structured PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) to flexible, task-oriented models like TBL (Task-Based Learning), discover which format fits your classroom needs.Using the PPP Approach: Analyze the advantages and limitations of this timeless teaching method and see it in action through real ESL textbook examples.
  • Practical Application: Engage in evaluating a sample ESL textbook chapter to identify the PPP format and practice planning a grammar lesson using textbook materials.
Workshop 2: Designing Integrated Vocabulary Lessons

Transform the way you teach vocabulary with this hands-on workshop that blends practical strategies with creative approaches. Learn how to make vocabulary lessons an integral and engaging part of your ESL classroom.

Key Topics Covered:

  • Planning Vocabulary Lessons: Engage in a hands-on group activity to evaluate teaching materials and analyze textbook exercises, identifying linguistic aims and best practices for vocabulary instruction.
  • Vocabulary in Lesson Structure: Understand the role of vocabulary in both language-focused and skills-focused lessons, exploring how it supports key skills such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
  • Exploring Lesson Planning Frameworks: Compare and contrast the Test-Teach-Test (TTT) and Engage-Study-Activate (ESA) frameworks, learning how to choose the most appropriate format based on lesson objectives and classroom context.
  • Adapting Lesson Planning Approaches: Examine factors that influence lesson planning decisions, including learner needs and teaching contexts, while evaluating the benefits and limitations of adhering to prescribed lesson plan formats.
  • Teaching Language Patterns: Delve into best practices for teaching vocabulary, including essential components such as pronunciation, usage, and collocations. Discover innovative ways to integrate vocabulary instruction into comprehensive lessons.
Workshop 3: Planning for Receptive Skills

Discover how to effectively teach reading and listening skills in this interactive workshop. With a focus on practical strategies and proven methods, you’ll learn how to make these essential skills accessible and engaging for your students.

What you’ll explore:

  • Unpacking Receptive Skills: Understand the unique features of reading and listening, including how learners interpret meaning through top-down and bottom-up processing. Discover activities that build comprehension and fluency.
  • Teaching vs. Testing Skills: Learn the difference between teaching receptive skills and testing them. Dive into teaching strategies for sub-skills like predicting and deducing meaning, while identifying challenges students face in reading and listening comprehension.
  • Building Key Skills: Practice techniques like pre-teaching vocabulary and guiding students to predict content or decode unfamiliar words, helping them approach texts and audio materials with confidence.
  • Designing Receptive Skills Lessons: Get hands-on with lesson planning using tried-and-tested frameworks like PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) and ESA (Engage, Study, Activate). Work collaboratively to create a structured, learner-focused lesson plan.
Workshop 4: Authenticity in the Classroom and Task-based Learning

Learn how to incorporate real-world tasks and materials to keep your students engaged and motivated.

What you’ll explore:

  • Authenticity in the Language Classroom: Examine the principles of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and the role of authentic materials in fostering realistic communication. Explore strategies for creating a classroom environment that mirrors real-world contexts.
  • Understanding Task-Based Learning (TBL): Explore the different types of tasks, the importance of communicative outcomes, and the differences between task-oriented activities and traditional language exercises.
  • TBLT vs. TSLT: What’s the Difference? Uncover the key distinctions between Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and Task-Supported Language Teaching (TSLT). Learn how lesson aims and outcomes vary in these approaches and how to effectively use frameworks like ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) and TBL (Task-Based Learning). Gain practical insights into creating a task-based sequence that keeps students engaged and motivated while achieving communicative goals.
  • Designing an Authentic Lesson Plan: Participate in a collaborative activity to evaluate teaching materials, identify appropriate class levels and linguistic aims, and design a lesson plan using the TBL framework.

Syllabus

Workshop 1: Lesson Planning Formats Overview with a Focus on PPP Grammar Lessons

This live session covers:

  1. The purpose and need for a lesson plan: 
    •   Why do we need a plan?
  2. Teaching contexts, learners’ needs, and levels of proficiency.
    •   Do these factors influence the type of lesson plan? 
  3. Types of lessons: language-focused, skills-focused, and combinations.
    •   Is teaching grammar, pronunciation or vocabulary similar to teaching the language skills: speaking, reading, writing and listening?    
  4.  Ways to define lesson aims and learning objectives (S.M.A.R.T. aims)
    •   What happens when lesson aims and objectives are not well-defined? 
  5. Lesson plan templates and tips for a language-focused lesson (Grammar)
    •   A practical approach to organizing sequences of instruction for a grammar lesson
  6.  An overview of major lesson plan formats (PPP-TTT- ESA- TBL)
    •   From structured to more task-oriented formats.
  7. Using the P.P.P. format: advantages and disadvantages
    •   A classic and straightforward format to teach a language-focused lesson. 
  8. ESL Textbooks: evaluating a sample chapter
    •   Identifying the PPP format in an ESL textbook.
  9. Planning a grammar lesson using an ESL textbook 
    •   Identifying the PPP format in an ESL textbook.
Workshop 2: Designing Integrated Vocabulary Lessons

This live session covers:

  1. Where does vocabulary fit in a lesson?
    •    Language-focused lessons
    •    Skills-focused lessons: speaking, listening, reading and writing
  2. Lesson planning frameworks: An overview (TTT and ESA)
    •    What does the choice of lesson plan format depend on?
    •    What things influence the type and level of detail of teachers’ planning?
    •    Advantages and disadvantages of following a prescribed type of lesson plan
    •    Reasons for varying lesson planning choices
  3. Teaching language patterns: vocabulary
    •    What should be covered when teaching vocabulary?
    •    How could vocabulary be integrated in the lesson?
  4. Planning a vocabulary lesson: a hands-on group activity
    •    Participants will actively engage in evaluating teaching possibilities for material designed for a vocabulary aim, and analyze the design of a textbook exercise to determine its intended linguistic aim.
Workshop 3: Planning for Receptive Skills

This live session covers:

  1. The characteristics of reading and listening skills
    • A brief description of what constitutes each skill.
    •  How do learners process meaning?
    •  Top-down and bottom-up processing
    •  Evaluating types of activities
  2.  Teaching skills vs. Testing skills
    •   Teaching skills: Sub-skills and teaching strategies
    •   Sub-skills vs. comprehension activities
    •   Comprehension activities (Quiz)
    •   Comprehension activities examples
    •   Learners’ reading and listening comprehension challenges
  3.  How these concepts work in practice
    • Sub-skill: Predicting
    • Sub-skill: Deducing meaning of unknown lexical items (Pre-teaching vocabulary)
  4.  Basic steps in Receptive Skills lessons
    •  Lesson planning format for receptive skills: PPP and ESA
    • Planning a receptive skills lesson: A hands-on group activity
Workshop 4: Authenticity in the Classroom and Task-based Learning

This live session covers:

  1. Authenticity in the language classroom
    •   Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Principles
    •   Authentic materials in CLT
    •   The authentic or inauthentic classroom
    •   Embracing authenticity in the classroom
  2.  TBL Characteristics
    •   Types of tasks and the communicative outcome
    •   Task-oriented activities vs. language exercises (QUIZ)
  3. The difference between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and task-supported language teaching (TSLT)
    •   Lesson aims and learning outcomes compared (ESA and TBL)
    •   How to create a task-based sequence
    •   TBL framework
  4. Evaluating teaching materials to create a lesson plan: a hands-on group activity
    •   Participants will design a lesson plan based on materials and teaching scenarios provided by the instructor. They will have to identify the level of the class, the linguistic aims and outcome, and choose a plan framework that matches them. 

Live Grammar & Phonology Tutorials

The objectives of our grammar and phonology tutorials center around the fundamental aspects of ESL teaching. Both grammar and pronunciation are pivotal in ESL education, requiring ESL instructors to have a deep understanding of the rules governing these linguistic components, as they will be tasked with teaching these aspects across all proficiency levels to facilitate ESL students’ acquisition of a new language.

In every tutorial session, we carefully examine key objectives concerning grammar and pronunciation teaching. We go beyond just sharing information; we aim to clarify complex rules that can be challenging for new ESL educators.

Unlike traditional lecture-based approaches, our tutorials adopt an interactive format. Participants are equipped with tools to pinpoint areas of confusion, enabling them to cultivate a strong foundation in grammar and pronunciation. This understanding not only enhances their own linguistic proficiency but also equips them with the means to better support their ESL students on their learning paths.

Key Dates

Module Description Schedule
Grammar Module 1-hour tutorial Second Thursday of each month, 6 pm – 7 pm (Eastern Time)
Phonology Module 1-hour tutorial Fourth Thursday of each month, 6 pm – 7 pm (Eastern Time)

How to Register

120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate

Option 1:
Add the 12-hour Live TESOL/TEFL Module for an additional fee

The 120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate course meets international job requirements so you never have to take another 120-hour TESOL / TEFL / TESL / CELTA course again!

  • Self-paced with personal tutor feedback and support
  • Valid for teaching abroad, online and in Canada/USA
  • Learn the ESL lesson planning skills you need to succeed in your career

Online course recognized by TESL Canada at their Professional Standard 1 and TESL Ontario CTESOL (Part 1 of TESL Ontario OCELT) – Earn 12 CEUs Accredited by ACCET (U.S.)

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168-hour Hybrid TEFL Certificate

Option 2:
The 12-hour Live TESOL/TEFL Module is already included!

Get all the benefits of an in-class TEFL course! The 168-hour Hybrid TEFL Certificate combines the 120-hour course with live interactive classes and our most popular specialist courses.

  • Includes the self-paced 120-hour Advanced course with personal tutor feedback and support
  • Attend the live 10-hour Lesson Planning Workshop via Zoom, along with the live Grammar and Phonology tutorials for a practical and interactive learning experience with other peers
  • Learn to teach English to young learners, teach English online, and use resources in foreign countries.

Online course recognized by TESL Canada at their Professional Standard 1 and TESL Ontario CTESOL (Part 1 of TESL Ontario OCELT) – Earn 16 CEUs Accredited by ACCET (U.S.)

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Frequently Asked Questions: 

Am I Required to Attend the Live Workshop to Pass the TESOL / TEFL Course?

If you registered in the 168-hour Hybrid TEFL Certificate, you need to attend all four live sessions to receive the final TEFL certification. If you registered in the 120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate or the 250-hour TESOL Diploma, you do not need to attend the live sessions to pass the online TESOL course.

Will I Receive Credits or Any Form of TESOL / TEFL Certification for Attending the Live Workshop? 

Those who register in the 168-hour Hybrid TEFL Certificate will receive credits for attending the workshop.

What Happens if I Miss a Live Session?

If you cannot attend a live session due to schedule, time zone, or maximum capacity limitations (100 students per session), you may wait a few weeks until the next monthly series starts from the beginning. You may also opt to complete the chapter without accessing its live session and attend the next workshop in the series as you proceed in the TESOL / TEFL course.

Will I Receive a Recording of the Workshops If I Can’t Attend Any Live Sessions?

Students who want to benefit from the live sessions are required to attend and participate in group activities. Those who are not able to attend will not receive a recording of the live workshop, but they will have access to messaging their tutor and a variety of pre-recorded videos for support with the lesson plan assignments, including FAQs Videos by our Senior Tutors and Lab Videos by our Director of Studies.

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