TEFL Course Saint Petersburg
In St Petersburg the CTEFL courses are run in cooperation with the Benedict School - the biggest and most popular language school in the city. The St Petersburg centre is located in the heart of the city, near the Winter Palace, Square and the Hermitage. A great variety of cultural, shopping and entertainment facilities are at hand.Survival Russian Lessons are also provided as part of the package.
Teaching English in Russia
As there are many openings at the Benedict school for newly qualified teachers. St Petersburg is the perfect place for taking a TEFL course.For a growing number of young Russians, English is the key to a better job and a ticket to a new life abroad, hence the EFL boom. Oil, tourism, and services outsourcing are among the major industries where good English is essential. Private English language schools abound. Most the schools employ a mix of local and nativespeaker teachers. Demand for the latter is so high that even new teachers are overloaded with work.
Get TEFL certified in one of the most elegant cities in the world!
St Petersburg is quite rightly known throughout the world for its beauty and culture. So unlike the Russian cities that came before it, with its strict geometric lines and an elegance reminiscent of Europe's most alluring capitals. St. Petersburg is built on more than a hundred islands in the NEA Delta linked by canals and arched bridges, it is often called the "northern Venice," and its elegant embankments are reminiscent of those of Paris. The city's focal point is the Admiralty; its most-visited attraction, a stone's throw away, the Winter Palace. Three major avenues radiate outward from the Admiralty: Nevsky Prospect (St. Petersburg's main shopping street), Gorokhovaya Ulitsa, and Voznesensky Prospect.
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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
Nothing, absolutely nothing, tastes better than hot Russian crepes with caviar, mushrooms, caramel, berries, or what have you with a cup of tea on a cold winter street. Russian cuisine is derived from the vast number of cultures contained within its expansive borders. With Eastern cooking methods and staples such as fish, poultry, game, mushrooms, berries and honey with various breads supplemented by crops of rye, wheat, barley and millet, the country's flavorful soups and stews are the perfect defense against Russia's oftenharsh climate. St. Petersberg weather is COLD, so dress accordingly -- down coat, hat, gloves and possibly long johns. Waterproof boots are a must; the streets are muddy even if it's not snowing. Dress conservatively; bright colors will really make you stand out.
Climate
St Petersburg's climate is mild, though unpredictable. Winters are cold, with freezing winds and snowfall, and temperatures average about 9°F to 10°F (-13°C to -12°C) in January and February (the coldest months), sometimes dropping lower. June to August is usually the warmest time of year, though temperatures are still relatively low and average in the mid-60s Fahrenheit (about 20°C). Summer tends to be the most popular time to travel to St Petersburg.
Excursions and Cultural Highlights
With the possible exception of the Louvre, there is no museum in the world that rivals the Hermitage in size and quality. Its collection is so large that it would take years to view it in its entirety--at last count, there were nearly three million works on exhibit. The museum is especially strong in Italian Renaissance and French Impressionist paintings, as well as possessing outstanding collections of works by Rembrandt, Picasso, and Matisse. Visitors should also take advantage of its excellent Greek and Roman antiquities collection and its exhibits of Siberian and Central Asian art. Not least among the attractions of the Hermitage is the museum itself, with its fine interior decoration and architectural detail.
Accommodation
Upon request, Via Lingua is able to book housing for you. We strive to meet your requirements and work to meet your needs and make your stay enjoyable.
