The last week. Only the external moderation is left, and then I qualify as a Trinity CertTESOL trained English teacher.
DAY 16
Upload all unit work so far into the Moderation Zone
Day 16 live classes
Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Final progress tutorial (Live, 2 hours)
Individual tutorial (in private) with your trainer about your previous two teaching practice classes and your progress.
All Units – Corrections and completion (Live, 1 hour)
Your trainer will be available to provide additional input and take your questions.
Trainer support for the remaining day’s activities (Live, 1 hour)
Your trainer will be available to provide additional input and take your questions.
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – English teaching jobs (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Teaching challenges and how to overcome them (self-study)
- Unit 2: Language Awareness – Pronunciation (self-study)
- Unit 2: Language Awareness – Frequency Adverbs, Comparatives, Superlatives (self-study)
- Unit 2: Language Awareness- Functional Language (self-study)
- Unit 2: Language Awareness- World Englishes (self-study)
DAY 17
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How to teach reported speech (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How to teach time and relative clauses (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How to teach prepositions (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching skills – Introduction to popular English exams (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching skills – Teaching English in different contexts: EAP, ESP and Online (self-study)
Day 17 live classes
Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Recap of the main theories of TEFL (Live, 1 hour)
Your trainer will provide a recap of all the main TEFL theories.
Unit 2: Language Awareness – English language test final preparation (Live, 3 hours)
Your trainer is on hand to give additional information advice and answer questions about tomorrows English language test.
DAY 18
Day 18 live classes
Unit 2: Language Awareness – English language test (Live, 1 hour and 15 minutes)
You will take the English language test under exam conditions.
- Unit 2: Language Awareness – Articles, Countable and Uncountable nouns (self-study)
- Unit 2: Language Awareness – Both, Neither, Either, Some and Any, Quantity: How much/many? (self-study)
- Unit 2: Language Awareness – Each and Every, Make and Do, Rise and Raise, So and Such (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – EFL testing and feedback (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching skills – Introduction to Special Educational Needs “SEN” (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching skills – Continuing Professional Development (self-study)
- All Units – Finalise and upload all your course unit work into the Moderation Zone (self-study)
DAY 19
Day 19 live classes
Unit 1: Teaching Skills Peer teaching on a trainer allocated theme (observed, not assessed) (Live, 3 hours)
You will teach a short class (no longer than 15 minutes) to the group and receive feedback from the trainer and your peers on a trainer assigned topic.
Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Moderation interview preparation (Live, 1 hour)
The trainer will explain what to expect at the Moderation interview and answer any questions you may have.
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Syllabus planning (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – End of course assessment (self-study)
- Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Employment resources (self-study)
DAY 20
Day 20 live classes
Unit 2: Language Awareness – Language Assessment test results published (Live, 1 hour)
You will be individually given your English language test results and trainer feedback.
External moderation interviews covering all Units and Unit 4 final assessment (Live, 4 hours)
This is your interview with the appointed Trinity CertTESOL Moderator.
Your performance at this interview determines if you pass or fail the course.
You will receive a ZOOM link by email for this class which you must open on the scheduled date and time.
You will meet as a group and also individually.
You will be given an appointment time for the individual interview.
The individual interview is where you, your course work and your Unit 4: Materials Assignment are all assessed by the Moderator.
This is it – moderation day.
EBC has prepared me for this interview, so I feel confident.
It was an intensive course, but it was worth it because I feel very well-prepared to teach.
I cannot wait to get my CertTESOL certificate and travel the world.