Aimed at those teachers who do not yet have a long career in the field of ELE teaching or those who aspire to dedicate themselves to this fascinating world of teaching Spanish as a foreign language, in different contexts and with a varied student body: children, teenagers and adults.

Main objectives of this course:

• Become familiar with the main documents used to establish the international standards that define language competence.
• Know the skills to develop to become a good teacher.
• Manage a theoretical framework from which you can move with confidence in the different levels of established knowledge.
• Learn how to plan classes and courses.
• Design activities adapted to the levels and the students.
• Evaluate and reflect on learning to adapt teaching strategies.
• Observe classes of different levels and types of students.
• Carry out a final project that will be carried out the last week to successfully pass the course.

KEY FACTS

• DURATION: 2 weeks.
• PARTICIPANTS: Adults dedicated to teaching Spanish with a minimum level of B2, preferably C1 and C2
  Face-to-face modality
• PARTICIPANTS: Minimum 3 and maximum 9
• SCHEDULE: Mornings from Monday to Friday, from 09.00 to 13.30
• HOURS: 20 PRESENTIAL HOURS IN GROUP PER WEEK
• 5 HOURS OF TUTORING PER WEEK IN THE AFTERNOON
• MATERIAL: Provided by the center and the student’s portfolio.
• EVALUATION: Participation, realization of activities of each module and final project.
• CERTIFICATION: You will receive an achievement report and a certificate of attendance to the course. You will have a tutor from the first day who will monitor you and will be available for whatever you need.

COURSE STRUCTURE
FIRST WEEK

We will dedicate these days to sessions with a greater theoretical component in order for the student to know the fundamentals of ELE teaching and become familiar with the tools we use in our work.

• Dedicate oneself to teaching Spanish: defining traits and professional perspectives.
• CEFR and PCIC: what they are and how they help us to develop teaching work.
• Teacher qualities and fundamental competencies (IC Document).
• How to plan an ELE class:
• Types of methodological approaches.
• Student profiles: adolescents, adults, private classes.
• Inverted class model / ABP / Online classes.
• The importance of empathy and the handling of errors.
• Strategies for the design of activities:
• Linguistic Block (past tenses, subjunctive, ser / estar, teaching the vocabulary, by and for)
• Cultural Block (literature and music).
• The use of New Technologies in the ELE classroom.
• Gamification: the use of the game as a resource for teaching.

SECOND WEEK

The sessions will combine the theory with the observation of classes and the teaching by the student of tutored classes, so that they will be able to put into practice everything previously learned, in a real setting with international students and of different levels.

• Analysis of materials.
• Error correction.
• Evaluation: how to measure the degree of acquisition of the contents covered.
• Delivery of a class observation agenda and a final task by your tutor.
• Teach the last two days of class a series of contents assigned from Monday.
• Preparation of the final sessions.
• Participation in classes and teaching of the contents assigned to groups made up of adolescent students of various nationalities.

Throughout the years we have seen how many teachers of Spanish have experienced a stagnation in their level of knowledge due to multiple factors: most of their students move between levels A1 and B1, lack of options at home to maintain and improve their Spanish, lack of free time to dedicate to further develop their skills, and so on.
This is a highly practical course, especially designed for teachers of teenagers and adults who would like to refresh and extend their range of techniques, activities and latest materials.
We believe this refresher course provides an extremely wide range of new ideas which can be taken away and immediately applied to their classroom.

Main objectives of this course:

• Perfect the participants’ knowledge of Spanish.
• Deal with the newest methodological and pedagogical issues.
• Present the latest trends in the use of new technologies applied to the classroom.
• Provide teachers with tools that help them create bridges of interculturality.
• Deal in depth with the subjects that involve the most difficulties in linguistic aspects for higher levels.
• Immerse ourselves in the social and cultural reality of the Hispanic world for their work in the classroom.
• Reflect on the teaching capacities of assistant teachers and activate them to the maximum.
• In short, an update of your knowledge and skills, a way to make your Spanish alive, up-to-date and prepared to face any type of situation that may occur in the classroom.

This course is aimed to non-native speakers who have experience in teaching Spanish and hold a teaching qualification from their own country. To take full advantage of the contents covered in it, you need to prove a level of knowledge of the language C1 or C2.

KEY FACTS

• DURATION: 2 weeks
• PARTICIPANTS: ELE teachers with a C1 or C2 level
  Face-to-face modality
• PARTICIPANTS: Minimum 3 and maximum 9
• SCHEDULE: Morning, from Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 13:30
• 25 Hours: 20 PRESENTIAL HOURS IN GROUP PER WEEK + 5 HOURS OF TUTORING PER WEEK
• MATERIAL: Provided by the center and student portfolio
• EVALUATION: Participation, realization of activities of each module and final project.
• CERTIFICATION: An achievement report and a certificate of attendance to the course will be delivered. The participant will have a tutor from the first day who will monitor them and will be available for whatever they need.

Course structure
First week

We will dedicate the first week to sessions with theoretical and reflective component to introduce the latest trends in the world of teaching Spanish as a second language and to become familiar with the only official tests (DELE / SIELE) that certify the level reached by students.

Latest challenges in language teaching: “renew or die”.
Strategies for the design of activities and content work using:

Latest challenges in language teaching: “renew or die”.
Strategies for the design of activities and content work using:

• Inverted Class Model (Flipped classroom)
• ABP (Project Based Learning)
• Transmedia narrative
• The use of New Technologies and online teaching.
• Blended learning.
• Gamification in the classroom.
• Official language accreditation tests: DELE / SIELE.

Second week

The sessions will combine theory with observation of teachers and the student’s teaching of tutored classes, so that they can put into practice everything previously learned, in a real setting and with international students of different levels.

• Self-evaluation and challenges of the teacher.
• Analysis of materials and modes of exploitation thereof.
• Correction of errors, paying special attention to those of high levels.
• Evaluation: how to measure the degree of acquisition of the contents covered.
• Delivery by the tutor of a class observation agenda and a final task.
• Teach a series of contents the last two days of class and that will be assigned from Monday.
• Preparation of the final sessions.
• Participation in classes and teaching of the contents assigned to groups made up of adolescent students of various nationalities.