Our teachers

Our competitive advantage...

Most schools claim to have great teachers and IH Barcelona is no exception. The difference is that we know our teachers are great because we've trained them how to teach Spanish effectively ourselves and we've seen them in action (teaching students on our intensive training courses) before we contract them to work with us.

Our methodology, designed to help you communicate

What's more, teacher training at IH Barcelona is an on-going process. We're constantly organising seminars and training sessions to keep our teachers up-to-date with all the latest developments in language teaching methodology.

IH Barcelona has an international reputation as a teacher training centre. We train more teachers of Spanish each year than any other private training institution in Spain on our own teacher training courses and we also organise the largest conference for Spanish teachers held anywhere in Europe.

Encuentro Práctico

Each year over 300 Spanish teachers from over 20 countries attend our Spanish Teachers' Conference in Barcelona to share their experiences and discuss teaching methodology.

Our 2008 "Encuentro Práctico" will be the conference's seventeenth edition in Barcelona, and it also now takes place in Würzburg (Germany) and Lucerne (Switzerland).

Course and methodology books

Not surprisingly, our teachers and teacher trainers (both past and present) have also been responsible for writing a large number of the best selling Spanish language text books and books on teaching methodology.

The main goal of most of our courses is to help our students develop their communicative skills. The best way to accomplish this is to conduct the classes entirely in Spanish and to provide students with plenty of opportunity for oral practice.

This does not mean that other areas are neglected; our students also work on reading and writing skills, grammar and vocabulary.