teacher training courses
Our Services
The Linguaviva Centre are founder members of Quality English and English Education Ireland and are, in fact, the oldest English language school in Dublin, founded in 1977. We aim to offer a truly personalized service in our boutique premises. For that reason our motto is ‘Proud of our Past, Focused on Your Future’.
Our team is highly trained (post graduate teaching qualifications) and has a wealth of experience training Overseas Teachers to maximise student engagement and integrate 21st century skills in their teaching.
We are an accredited centre for Trinity Cert TESOL. This course is ideal for those wishing to start their teaching career and gain a worldwide recognised qualification, which enables them to teach around the globe.
Our Erasmus + programs (OID no: E10059096 for K1 funding) are offered throughout the year and are aimed at those teachers looking to improve their current skills or ‘brush up’ an area of their teaching portfolio
We run ‘Communicate to Educate’ Refresher Courses as well as ‘Cultural Heritage Courses’. We also offer ‘Discovering Dublin’ Seasonal Courses which focus on the unique spirit of Dublin in the seasons of Spring (St Patrick’s Day) and Autumn Halloween.
Our experienced Booking Team will take care of all application requests pre-arrival and our Academic Team will complete Europass Mobility documents as needed. These documents are generated by the sending organization i.e. the school of the course participants.
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Cultural Heritage. Two Cities: Many Stories
Two Cities: Many Stories is our two-week Erasmus+ course on Cultural Heritage—an immersive journey through Ireland’s stories, spaces, and communities.
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Communicate to Educate
This popular course, for Secondary School Teachers across Europe, focuses on Communicative Language Teaching and on exploiting language in content-focused classes at all three CEFR levels.
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general english + teacher training
This course is aimed at groups of current practising teachers of English travelling together, who may be teaching English through other subjects.
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TRINITY cert tesol
A qualification with worldwide recognition. Trainees complete a course and undertake at least six hours of observed teaching practice with real learners and produce reflective written assignments for assessment.
Our aims
Our goal is to design and deliver training courses which focus on the needs of practising teachers throughout Europe. To that end we meet all participants before the course on a video call to evaluate needs and to make sure that expectations can be fully met.
We have small group sizes so there can be individual attention to development.
We understand that teachers want practical ideas and materials to take back to their classrooms.
We focus on secondary and vocational teachers in our set date courses. Primary teachers can also apply in closed groups through our English & Culture or English for Professionals courses.
We know that teachers are interested in a blend of workshops, lectures and visits, activities and excursions to complement the busy schedules they have at home as teachers. We want learning to be fun!
We aim to provide a learning environment that values participants’ experience as teachers in an atmosphere that is communicative and creative.
One of the great advantages of these courses is that they provide opportunities for participants to make lasting connections in the educational sector around Europe, helping them to reflect on and enhance their teaching, as well as improve their own language skills.