Enhance your English teaching career professionally and globally
Our Trinity CertTESOL course consists of 200 hours total of comprehensive training, (130 hours of guided learning and 70 hours of self-study). There are five mandatory units and teaching practice, which incorporates all the required learning components. You will participate in online self-study input sessions regulated by our qualified trainers who are available online to assist you during the course.
Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills within a supportive group of peers and trainers, either in person or through online webinars, meetings and forums.
Your observed teaching practice will take place either online or in real schools and workplace environments here in Thailand. For those currently teaching, the option of recording and uploading your own teaching practice sessions may be available, provided specific conditions are met.
OUR COURSE UNITS
what you will learn and experience
Teaching Skills
You will receive input sessions that cover methodology, classroom management skills, lesson planning, a variety of teaching techniques, young learners, adapting course books, and the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing in a communicative context. All of the input sessions for this unit will be delivered online via a combination of interactive eLearning content, self-study guides, forums, and activities designed to demonstrate your awareness of the concepts and techniques. You will learn to self-evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and how you are developing as a teacher.
Teaching Practice
All trainees will teach for six observed hours. Online teaching practice can start at any time during the course, depending on your overall study plans. You will have access to our online class booking system, allowing you to choose classes best suited to your availability.
​Upon teaching the first three hours online, you will have the opportunity to complete your remaining three hours of teaching practice by either continuing to teach online, or by attending our onsite component in order to take advantage of teaching in a live classroom environment. Our next round of live teaching practice classes runs from the 8th to 13th September 2025, here in Thailand.
Throughout the course, you will have opportunities to observe your fellow trainees when they teach. You will also receive full guidance in lesson planning for each class, and how to effectively teach a class in an online or live environment. Each teaching practice is observed by a course tutor; after your lesson you will be given feedback and guidance by the tutors, along with a set of clear personal goals to focus on for the following teaching practice.
Language Awareness
This unit aims to teach you how to recognize the relationship between the form and function of grammar. For example, the grammatical form of the word table is a noun, while run is a verb, and short is an adjective. Form is sometimes called ‘parts of speech’. Grammatical function describes how a word works in a sentence. For example, the boy kicked the ball. The word boy is functioning as the subject of the sentence. For second language learners, when grammar is placed in a communicative context, it helps add structure to their thoughts and how best to express them. You will also study phonology, and learn techniques to help make students’ pronunciation of words sound more natural.
Learner Profile
You will work closely with one student to build up a profile of their language strengths and weaknesses. After interviewing the student and gathering language samples, you will then prepare and teach a lesson based on the student’s language needs.
Materials Assignment
You will receive input on the design and adaptation of teaching materials. Based on this input, you will be expected to create a range of teaching materials that cover the four skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing for use - during your teaching practice sessions. You will then have to select a piece of material as the focus for a written assignment.
Unknown Language
You will experience what it is like to be a student of an unknown language at a beginner level. You will be encouraged to reflect upon the communicative nature of the lessons, and how the teaching techniques helped you learn the target language.