 Spanish
Teacher Training Course
If your mother tongue is Spanish and you are interested in
becoming a professional Spanish teacher, the Spanish Teacher
Training Course is the most professional, personal, and
complete course you will find in Israel today.
The course will provide you with the best tools for teaching
Spanish to Israeli students. Throughout the course, we will
share our vast experience with you, and teach you how to teach
Israelis to read, write, speak, comprehend, and love the Spanish
language.
Purpose of the Course
The course will provide you with the best tools for teaching
Spanish to Israeli students: teaching Spanish grammar, the
implementation of vocabulary, boosting student confidence,
teaching skills of Spanish conversation, and more.
Course Duration
The course is 60 academic-hours (45 full-hours) long.
Course Structure
During the course you will undergo comprehensive training.
You will actively participate in various courses (Beginners,
Advanced, Backpackers), take part in building lesson
plans, watch different teaching styles, and learn from the
training and experience of our professional instruction staff.
The course consists of a series of instructional sessions,
where you will meet with managers and senior instructors from
our staff, as well as a hands-on series of classes, which
will include active participation in various courses and seminars.
Teaching Spanish Grammar to Israeli Students
This part is taught by one of our senior instructors specializing
in teaching Spanish grammar to Israeli students.
In this section you will learn about the different kinds
of language courses, the types of students and the differences
between them, skills one needs to acquire in order to teach
a language, the distinctiveness in teaching Israelis, and
more.
We focus on ‘Teaching Grammar to Israelis’, where
we learn about the vast subjects in Spanish grammar, and how
to teach and explain them to the Israeli student.
Spanish Instruction
In this section you'll learn about teaching-aids and teaching
methods in general and you'll acquire the tools and rules
of their application.
This section will focus on efficient Spanish lesson planning.
Here we will review our Spanish for Beginners course,
explaining its structure and how its lesson-plans are used
for students of all types.
'Hands-on' Learning
The hands-on part of learning includes full accompaniment
and coaching by a senior instructor from AAI's Department
of Instruction and Development. During this time, you will
actively participate in various Spanish courses, for beginners
and advanced level students, as well as DIBURIMOS meetings.
In the first stage you will join a senior
instructor from our staff who will be teaching our Spanish
for Beginners course. During six three-hour classes, you will
experience lesson preparation together, teaching in the classroom,
and at the end of each class we will summarize and review
our actions in order to learn from our mistakes. At the end
of this stage, you will deliver part of the lesson yourself.
In the second stage of hands-on training,
you will write and carry out learning programs, designed for
strengthening student conversation skills. At this stage,
you will also join a two-hour session of DIBURIMOS, where
you will learn how to build the lesson plan and instruct it,
while emphasizing conversation practice, correct pronunciation,
and application of the material learned in class.
In the future you will join the DIBURIMOS
design team, and apply the lesson planning process yourself,
choosing themes, vocabulary, dialogs, and songs.
In the final part of this stage, you will instruct a DIBURIMOS
session yourself, while accompanied by a senior AAI instructor.
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