TEFL Crete (Greece)

TEFL certification course in Crete, Greece. Teach English with the best TEFL program in Greece! Your TEFL course in charming and beautiful location than Crete.

TEFL Course Crete

Wherever you decide to do your TEFL course, you are unlikely to find a more charming and beautiful location than Crete. The Via Lingua School in Crete is situated in the centre of Hania, Crete’s second city (and former capital) on the North-West coast. Hania is a beautiful old Cretan town with a population of around 60,000. The old town centre is clustered around the 14th century Venetian harbour where much of the city's life and light is to be found. The town is large enough to offer a cosmopolitan atmosphere and a ready range of nightlife and places to see, but small enough that it's normally easy to get around on foot - whether from the school to your apartment or from the local bar down to the nearest beach

TEFL Course Crete
TEFL Course Crete
TEFL Course Crete
TEFL Course Crete
TEFL Course Crete
TEFL Course Crete

Teaching English in Greece

There is a considerable demand for the teaching of English as a foreign language and there are opportunities for regular and part-time employment. In Crete there are literally hundreds of "frontistiria” (private language schools) and the majority of Greek school children attend one after school hours. Many native English speakers work teaching English either in frontistiria or by giving private English lessons to pupils. Frontistiria are open during the school year, September to June, and usually close for 3 months in the summer. More information about teacher requirements, plus details of vacancies from the Panhellenic Association of Language School Owners (PALSO)

Get TEFL certified on one of the world’s most beautiful islands!

Wherever you decide to do your TEFL course, you are unlikely to find a more charming and beautiful location than Crete. From the life and vitality of the old town of Hania to the medieval mountain villages, from the sundrenched sandy beaches with their all-year-round sunshine to the Minoan ruins of Knossos - Crete seems to offer everything. The wild landscapes of the interior and the majestically unspoiled trekking opportunities of the nearby Samaria Gorge make you forget sometimes that you are never more than a few miles from a palm-fringed beach

  • June 18, 2025 - July 16, 2025
  • July 21, 2025 - August 15, 2025

Each component comprises a set of standardized statements of competence, accompanied by indicators of success. The indicators describe the skills, knowledge and qualities associated with effective teachers of English as a Foreign Language. The standardized statements of competence are as follows:

Pedagogy Theory

  • Describe a range of teaching methodologies, approaches and strategies
  • Describe the skills, knowledge and qualities which characterize an effective teacher
  • Describe the factors which influence the establishment of an effective learning environment
  • Describe a range of strategies for supporting, monitoring and assessing student progress

Language Awareness

  • Describe the purposes and nature of Communication
  • Describe key features in relation to the structure of the English language
  • Describe and explain the English tense system and other, commonly taught, grammatical features
  • Describe how sounds are made and modified and use phonetic symbols to describe the sounds of English

Teaching Skills

  • Design and prepare effective lessons
  • Prepare and manage the physical learning environment and use resources in an appropriate way
  • Provide innovative and flexible learning experiences for individuals and groups of students
  • Create learning environments that are student-centered, challenging and safe

Cultural Awareness

  • Engage in the process of learning a foreign language
  • Demonstrate an awareness of the issues in relation to culture and language teaching
  • Demonstrate a willingness to foster positive relationships with members of the local community
  • Demonstrate an awareness of cultural similarities and differences and our shared cultural heritage

Life Skills

  • Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrate effective communication skills
  • Demonstrate effective decision-making skills
  • Demonstrate effective organizational skills
  • Demonstrate effective financial skills
  • Demonstrate effective employment awareness skills
  • Demonstrate effective legal awareness skills
  • Demonstrate effective personal welfare skills


Each component of the Via Lingua program is allocated a minimum number of study hours. These study hours mainly involve:

  • direct contact with trainers or mentors in workshop sessions, planning meetings, lesson preparation or review meetings;
  • direct contact with students during teaching practice sessions;
  • private study and preparation;
  • record keeping and personal reflection linked to the maintenance of a professional portfolio.

The content of each of the five components can be described as follows:

Pedagogy Theory

  • Teaching and learning a foreign language
  • Language teaching methodologies
  • The syllabus
  • The effective teacher
  • Classroom management skills
  • Language teaching materials
  • Lesson planning
  • Teaching receptive skills
  • Teaching productive skills (speaking)
  • Teaching vocabulary
  • Teaching pronunciation
  • Teaching grammar
  • Responding to mistakes and errors
  • Language games
  • The assessment of language learners

Language Awareness

  • The purpose and nature of communication
  • Word classes
  • Verb types and verb forms
  • The tense system
  • The present simple tense and the present continuous tense
  • The past simple tense, the past continuous tense, the past perfect tense (simple and continuous)
  • The present perfect tense (simple and continuous)
  • Expressing the future
  • Conditional sentences
  • The passive voice
  • Gerunds and infinitives
  • Modal auxiliary verbs
  • Multi-word verbs
  • Phonology

Teaching Skills

  • Six hours of observing experienced teachers
  • Eight hours of assessed teaching practice (*groups and or individual students)
  • Sixteen hours of supported lesson preparation time
  • Eight hours of post-lesson discussions

Cultural Awareness

  • The cross-cultural dimension of language teaching
  • The Group Project

Life Skills

  • Interpersonal skills
  • Communication skills
  • Decision-making skills
  • Organizational skills
  • Financial awareness skills
  • Employment awareness skills
  • Legal awareness skills
  • Personal welfare skills

Food and clothing

A Cretan specialty is Stifado Salingariko - snail stew, and Chirino Kritiko - pork chops. One of the many local cheeses is Myzithra and Anthotiro you must try also the Graviera Kritis (Cretan Gruyere).
The Cretan olive oil is one of the best in Greece .Other traditional products of Crete is the Cretan Paximadia (Crisps). Apart from the many Greek taverns all over the island, you'll also find many international restaurants in the bigger summer resorts and the cities.
Dress code in monasteries and churches: No shorts, bikinis or sleeveless shirts. Take your hat off when you enter a church and do not use flash for photographs. Casual business attire is always a good bet! During the winter it can get a little cold at night and a coat or jersey of some sort is recommended. During the summer tshirts and shorts are more suitable. For working as an English teacher in Greece, smart casual clothes are normally expected.

Climate

The weather is mild throughout the winter and normally warm enough to sit outside the cafés in ll’ shirtsleeves all through the year. During the summer the temperature can rise to 40 degrees Centigrade (100° F) but the fact that you're never far from a palm-fringed beach helps to make this a little more bearable.

Excursions and cultural highlights

Weekends are free except for the course project and we run a variety of social programs to some of the most fascinating parts of the island of Crete. These include (but are not necessary limited to) a trek down the Samaria Gorge, visits to the beaches of Elafonisi, Falasarna and Gramvousa, trips to the Minoan ruins of Knossos (home of the Labyrinth and the Minotaur) and stays is one or more of the small villages on the South coast of the island where you can experience some more traditional Greek life, music, food and ambience is a relaxed and beautiful setting.

Accommodation

We offer fully furnished apartments with kitchenettes for your stay during the course. The apartments have a sea view and are located just 100 metres from a beautiful beach. Prices are Euro 350 for double and Euro 450 for single

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