Spanish Teachers

Castile and Leon: The Perfect Destination for Spanish Teachers
Whether you’re just looking to brush up on your language skills or aiming to move into a specialist area of language teaching such as legal, business or medical Spanish, language schools in Castile and Leon are well-known for the selection of courses they offer.

Here then is a quick selection of general tips – some obvious, some not quite so obvious – for Spanish teachers on a teaching course in Castile and Leon...

Don’t Hesitate to Stay with a Family
Most teaching courses offer a stay with a family as optional – but for many Spanish teachers it’s an integral part of the process. Because, after all, complete Spanish immersion occasionally is as important for a teacher as it is for a student, and that most important aspect of Spanish conversation – day-to-day domestic conversation – cannot be naturally reproduced in any other situation.

Don’t Limit Yourself to Salamanca or Valladolid
All too often students – whether they’re language students or teachers – don’t look beyond the grand historical attractions of the cities of Salamanca and Valladolid. But in actual fact, some of the best language schools in Castile and Leon offering teaching courses for Spanish teachers can be found right the way across the region – from Avila to Segovia and Burgos.

Remember What the End Goal Is
Make sure you to take every opportunity to remind yourself how different classroom Spanish can be to the sort of Spanish conversation you hear on the streets. Remember the difficulties that students will have when confronted with it, and how important it is that they grasp it in order to eventually speak fluent Spanish.

Take Every Opportunity to Pick Up Teaching Resources
Acouple of weeks’ top-up teaching course is too good an opportunity to miss when it comes to picking up teaching resources and aids – because everywhere you look there’s something you can feed back into your class.

Magazines, newspapers and books are the main choices of things to buy and take back home as teaching aids; Spanish films and CDs are also obviously in more plentiful supply (and cheaper relatively speaking than at home). But there also plenty of opportunities to pick up free resources: taking as many photos as you can, for example, will provide you with props to make almost any future Spanish lesson plan work.

Enjoy Yourself and Make the Most of Your Time Here
A trip to Castile and Leon to improve your teaching skills in the school holidays shouldn’t just be about hard work, though. Outside of the classroom, there’s so much to see and do in the region – whether it’s visiting the fantastic selection of monuments and tourist attractions or making the most of the nightlife – and every one of those experiences will give you something to pour back into your lessons when you get home.