Teaching
Teachers are responsible for the planning and teaching of effective EFL classes, and for related administrative tasks such as writing student reports and completing end of course certificates. Most teachers are also required to take an active part in the activities and excursions programme. The Director of Studies is responsible for the management of the academic programme, assisted by the Assistant Director of Studies (where applicable) and the Senior Teacher.Classes Classes may be multi- or monolingual and we usually have a maximum class size of 16 students.
Teaches 15 hours per week and 7 sessions on activities and excursions, including some evening activities. Duties are identical for both positions. Click on the image to see an example of a teacher's working week, or click here to see an example diary.
Teaches 30 hours per week and leads one full day excursion
Senior Positions
If you have several years of teaching experience you might like to consider a senior position:
Assistant Director of Studies
The ADOS is responsible for supporting the DOS in all aspects of the academic programme, including the management of the teaching team and their performance. The ADOS also has specific responsibility for the organisation of the Trinity exams. See DOS weekly timetable (right) or Click here to see an example diary.
Senior Teacher The Senior Teacher role is to provide support to the DOS and the teaching department as well as teaching 15 hours per week. For example, helping less experienced teachers with planning, assisting the DOS in testing and timetabling.
Most teachers work 5 contracted sessions as teachers, and the rest of their week they work as ALs, and are expected to take an active role in organising and supervising activity sessions. For example, this could mean organising a quiz, leading an excursion, taking students swimming, or running an arts & crafts session.
You are expected to show the same energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the activity programme as you are the academic programme. Remember that the activity programme has a direct effect on the students' enjoyment of their holiday, so that more that you put into the programme, the more they get out of it.
The type of study programmes offered at the
centre affects the types of work offered.
We offer several types of programmes:
Classic Programme
This is the traditional summer school programme, where students have
classes in the morning and activities in the afternoon. They also have one or
two
half-day excursions and one full day excursion per week. This programme
represents the majority of courses sold.
Double Banked Programmes
It is sometimes necessary to run classes in the morning and the afternoon.
In double-banking, if a group has classes in the morning one week, the
next they will have them in the afternoon. At Stafford House Study Holidays,
this may mean that teachers will teach twenty-two and a half hours a
week (See timetable for RET30), or that the teaching will be in the afternoon, with activities
and excursions in the morning.
Choice Programme
Classes and one full-day excursion per week, with the classes in either the morning or afternoon. There is a full evening activity programme, but daytime activities are limited to two guided walks per week. These courses are usually only actively sold in Central London.
Closed Groups
Sometimes the programme is designed specially for the group. Some government
contract groups operate as a closed group e.g. INPDAP courses at selected
centres.
Homestay Programmes
Homestay students generally follow the Classic programme, except that
they live with selected host families off-site. Homestay students only
come in for evening activities twice per week (usually for discos)