Spanish teacher training courses

International House Barcelona has been training teachers of Spanish since 1986, as well as being one of Europe's top ELT (or TEFL) teacher training centres.

We currently train over 200 Spanish language teachers per year on our courses and also run a major annual Spanish as a foreign language (or ELE) conference.

In Barcelona, we offer three basic training course programmes for Spanish teachers:

1: Introductory (or Pre-service) courses

These courses are designed for fluent Spanish speakers (either native or non-native) who would like to learn how to teach Spanish to foreigners. We offer these courses on both an intensive (full-time) basis, as well as an extensive (part-time) basis.

The intensive courses last for 4 weeks (120 hours) and cover both theoretical and practical aspects of teaching.

Course dates (2008)

• 14 January - 9 June (extensive)
• 4 - 29 February
• 31 March - 25 April
• 5 - 30 May
• 2 - 27 June
• 30 June - 25 July
• 4 - 29 August
• 1 - 26 September
• 3 - 28 November

The extensive teacher training course runs over a six-month period, with 4.5 hours tuition per week. The contents and total number of hours of the extensive course are identical to those of the intensive courses.

Those students who hold a University degree, have a suitably high level of Spanish (native or near-native speaker level) and who successfully complete one of these Introductory Training courses, receive an officially recognised teaching certificate from the University of Barcelona. This certificate is also equivalent to 6 credits on the University of Barcelona's Masters course in teaching Spanish as a foreign language.

The University of Barcelona's "UB Virtual" certificates our Spanish Teacher Training Courses as part of their "Master ELE" degree.

The price of this year's Introductory courses is €1,250. This includes the fee payable to the University of Barcelona for certification.

Note that there is no registration fee for our courses.

2: Methodology and Culture courses

These courses are designed for non-native teachers of Spanish who probably have some teaching experience. Teachers are given the opportunity to refresh and develop their teaching skills and broaden their knowledge of Spanish culture. These methodology and culture courses last 10 days (50 hours) and they are therefore run on an intensive (full-time) basis.

Dates 7-18 July. The price of these courses is €680.

Note that there is no registration fee for our courses.

Holidays

The school will be closed for public holidays on the following dates:

1, 6 January; 6, 9 April; 1 May; 4 June; 15 August; 11, 24 September; 12 October; 1 November; 6, 8, 25, 26 and 31 December.

Please note that classes lost on the public holidays listed above cannot be made up at other times.

Tailor-made teacher training courses

International House Barcelona can provide tailor-made teacher training courses to suit the needs and requirements of any particular group of teachers. We are also happy to send our trainers to other cities or countries to run on-site teacher training courses.

Further information

For further information about our Teacher Training Courses, please email Begoña Montmany in our Spanish Teacher Training department, or ask for our special brochure.

See also the Spanish Teacher Training department website.