Teaching One-to-One

The newly updated Teaching One-to-One course will equip you with the skills to teach individual students both online and face-to-face.  

Teaching one-to-one has never been more in demand, especially now more and more students are choosing to study online. They save travel time, may be able to choose class times more flexibly, and will still have personalised focused attention from their teacher. 

Is Teaching One-to-One for me?

This course is for you if:

• You have some experience of teaching one-to-one and would like to improve
• You have no experience yet but would like to equip yourself with the right skills
• Have C1 English or higher
• Can dedicate 5 hours each week to studying 

It will be helpful if you are teaching one-to-one at the time of study, but it is not absolutely necessary. 

As well as learning about how to improve your one-to-one teaching throughout this course, you will be part of a global cohort who you can share ideas and collaborate with.   

Prices

The complete course price is £347 plus 20% VAT if you will be taking this course while in the UK, or if your employer is a UK-based company. 

If you have completed an online course with IH OTTI in the previous 12 months, there is a loyalty discount of 10%. The IH staff price is £295. Just let us know on the application form if you would like to claim these discounts. 

Please note that discounts cannot be used in conjunction with each other.

Teaching One-to-One is a blended online course

This is a blended course with both live online and offline self-study (asynchronous) elements. 

There are no face-to-face sessions, we welcome students from all over the world!

Each week starts with a live (synchronous) session lasting 90 minutes. This will be recorded for anybody who can't attend, but we strongly recommend that you try to make each live session.

You can access the rest of the weekly material online at a time to suit you. There are asynchronous self-study tasks each week, which you must keep up to date with. The tutor will provide input and feedback, and course participants use the discussion forums to discuss and comment on the weekly topic material. 

Live sessions are preliminarily scheduled for Mondays at 1 pm UK time, but each course will be agreed upon between each tutor and course participants.

Course Details

Teaching individual students is very different from teaching groups.  Repeating a lesson that you have used with a larger group will not work effectively, and it's too easy to slip into delivering conversation classes without focussing enough on grammar and achieving set learning objectives. 

This Teaching One-to-One course will develop specific teaching skills to maintain students' motivation, and give you concrete methods so that you can help learners improve their overall skills or achieve a specific goal.

Teachers need a well-thought-out plan that caters to students' individual needs as well as areas of learning they may not have considered. 

The dynamics of a one-to-one class are very different from group classes, and one-to-one learners require more input from the teacher in terms of materials. The Teaching One-to-One course will teach you how to use a variety of platforms, effectively utilize materials and ensure learners have a sense of progress.   

For teachers, investing in this Teaching One-to-One course could be your passport to independent or freelance work which is now more highly in demand than ever before.

For school managers, one-to-one courses are a cost-effective option because they don't take up your limited classroom resources and online options will increase your market reach. Having qualified one-to-one teachers on your staff can boost sales in this area.