The program is broken down into two sessions: Practical Teaching Skills in the morning and Theories about English Language Teaching and Learning in the afternoon. Both sessions are equally important and attendance is mandatory. The Practical Teaching skills session aims to help students develop the skills and knowledge necessary to be an English teacher through practical teacher training. At first, the instructor will model how activities are set up and students will observe, but as the course progresses students will be given more and more opportunities to practice and develop their teaching skills by setting up class activities. The course will build on the main parts of a lesson plan: warm ups, introductions, practice, performance and feedback. Other parts of the lesson plan such as transition activities and homework assignments will also be discussed. During the first couple of days we will work on warm-ups, then after that we will work on warm ups and introductions, etc until we can go through an entire lesson plan in one session. After the instructor has modeled an activity he will call on students to teach that activity. No student is expected or allowed to do more than one activity in a session except for their final observation. The final observation is the largest portion of the overall grade for the course. Each student is expected to design and deliver a full lesson to the rest of the class. There is also an observation period every Wednesday in which students are expected to observe one of the classes at Mckinsey. They must also fill out a lesson observation from signed by the teacher whose class they have observed.

The Theories about English Language Teaching session is meant to be a time to reflect on and prepare for the Practice Teaching skills session. Students are asked to consider how learning and teaching styles differ for every person, how to assess student needs and to evaluate student performance. It is also a chance to work on some of the more challenging and intellectual skills such as explaining grammatical rules. Also students will be asked to form opinions about controversial issues in the language classroom such as whether or not the first language should be used, and whether or not students should be allowed to use electronic dictionaries. At the end of the course students will be expected to write a 500 word essay about what they have learned from the program and how they plan to apply that knowledge.