Five days in Benalmádena, Spain — modern English-teaching methodology, mixed-level lesson design, and digital tools you'll actually use.
Why this course? English teaching has moved on. Communicative methodology, digital tools, mixed-level rooms, and authentic-materials work are now the baseline — not the cutting edge. Whether you’re in your first year teaching English or your twentieth, your toolkit needs a refresh roughly every five years, and your own English fluency benefits from a week away in a country that speaks something else.
What it covers. Communicative language teaching, mixed-level lesson design, classroom management for language groups, and digital tools that actually fit language pedagogy — not the trendy ones, the useful ones. Cohorts capped at 10. English-medium throughout. Hosted on our campus inside Benalmádena International College, a ten-minute walk from the Mediterranean.
How it works. Mornings: methodology and your own English fluency, sharpened by use. Afternoons: hands-on lesson-design workshops where you adapt materials, build mixed-level lessons, and integrate tech into existing plans. Friday is mock-lesson day — you teach, peers and tutors give honest feedback, you adjust before delivering it for real.
Course completion certificate accepted as continuing professional development by school authorities across the EU.
Every session ends with a worksheet, plan, or activity teachers can use the week they return — not a binder of theory.
Mornings in class, afternoons using the language with hosts, shopkeepers, and trip guides — the gap between learning English and using it closes fast.
Vocabulary, grammar, and discourse practiced where they actually appear — ordering food, asking directions, presenting work, holding an opinion in a debate.
Practical strategies for designing one lesson that works across A2 to B2 learners in the same room — tested through workshop iterations and peer feedback.
Apps, platforms, and blended-learning patterns selected for fit with language pedagogy — implemented in your own lesson plans during the week.
Morning: principles of effective second-language teaching, language acquisition theories, and communicative language teaching strategies. Afternoon: workshop building motivating lesson plans, then pair planning to refine structures with peer input.
Morning: adapting materials for different proficiency levels, using authentic resources, and teaching grammar and vocabulary in context. Afternoon: workshop designing lessons for mixed-level classes, then transforming existing materials into stronger teaching tools.
Morning: integrating digital tools, interactive apps for student engagement, and setting up a blended-learning environment. Afternoon: hands-on session designing lessons with digital tools, then applying technology to existing lesson plans.
Morning: classroom-management techniques for language teachers, managing multilingual and mixed-level classrooms, and encouraging active participation. Afternoon: case-study analysis of common classroom challenges and peer exchange of management strategies.
Morning: deliver your lesson plan in a mock session, receive tutor and peer feedback, refine your approach. Afternoon: reflection on common classroom challenges, Q&A, and EUTA certification.
Have a question about this course? We’d love to help.
Erasmus+ Staff Mobility provides grants for teachers and school staff to attend professional development courses abroad. The grant contributes to course fees, travel, accommodation, and daily subsistence — exact amounts are set by your country’s National Agency.
We provide all the documentation your school needs for the grant application: course descriptions, Learning Agreements, daily programmes, and invitation letters.
EUTA’s training rooms sit inside Benalmádena International College — a gated international-school campus in Nueva Torrequebrada with security, controlled access, and EUTA staff on-site. Where you sleep depends on who you are.
Teachers stay at Flatotel International, a comfortable hotel walking distance from the EUTA campus and the Mediterranean. Daily breakfast included; private room option available; full board can be added.
English language teachers at any stage of the road — first-year ESL/EFL teachers, twenty-year veterans, and everyone in between. B1 English is the floor; the workshops adapt to whoever’s in the room.
This is continuing professional development (CPD), not an entry-level teaching qualification. TEFL and CELTA are for people becoming English teachers; this course is for teachers already in the classroom who want updated methodology, fresh materials, and stronger English fluency. The 30-hour completion certificate is recognised as CPD by school authorities, not as a teaching licence.
The course centres on communicative language teaching — student-centred, real-world tasks, and grammar in context. Sessions also cover digital tools, mixed-level lesson design, and authentic-materials work, so you leave with a multi-method toolkit rather than a single approach.
Yes. The week is structured around building lesson plans, adapting materials, and designing technology-enriched activities — all of which you take home in usable form. Friday mock lessons give you tutor feedback before delivering them at school.
Yes. The course meets Erasmus+ KA-122 requirements, and we provide the documentation your school needs for the grant application — course description, Learning Agreement, daily programme, and invitation letter. Read the full Erasmus+ for teachers walkthrough →
Teachers stay at Flatotel International, a comfortable hotel walking distance from the EUTA campus and the Mediterranean — daily breakfast included, with private or shared room options and full board available as an add-on. Training itself runs on the EUTA campus inside Benalmádena International College, a gated international-school site with controlled access and on-site staff.
Voices from teachers who’ve spent their Erasmus+ week with us in Benalmádena.
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