About IH Palma
The language school
Established in 1982, International House Palma occupies all three floors of a modern, spacious building in the centre of Palma, just off the prestigious Passeig Mallorca avenue and a couple of minutes' walk from the old city.
The old city is stunningly beautiful and contains a vast array of squares, elegant buildings, pedestrianised streets that are a pleasure to wander through and of course the city's main tourist attractions, including the cathedral and the ancient Arab baths.
IH Palma has its own street level entrance and reception, from where students can take the stairs to the classrooms. There are also toilet facilities and a classroom for facilities for learners with reduced mobility. The school occupies 3 floors of the building and has 14 air-conditioned classrooms, as well as a number of offices and recreational areas, including a computer lab which students are able to use either before or after class, and a chill-out area where learners can relax.
The whole third floor of the school is also an internet wireless hotspot, meaning that students may connect to the internet using their own laptop (notebook) computers or iPhones if they wish.
Teacher training courses
The Cambridge CELTA course is the most well-known and respected of the initial TEFL/ESOL teacher training qualifications. International House is the organisation that created the original course to which Cambridge later gave its name; meaning that no organisation can offer more experience and expertise in the delivery of CELTA courses than IH.
You may already know that many of the best known and most respected textbooks in the industry (Headway, Cutting Edge, First Certificate Gold, Language to Go, Natural English, etc) were written by IH teachers.
The school is also well-known for providing training courses for teachers in Mallorca; we have trained teachers of Catalan for the local government, and given many seminars. The most recent of these was a government funded 30 hour course entitled "Using new technology in the language classroom".
Language courses
Apart from CELTA courses, International House Palma also offers language classes in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. Our teachers give classes to private individuals (either on a 1:1 or group basis) and also to privately organised groups.
The school also has a large department dedicated to work-based learning: We give language classes in many public and private corporations, often funded through EU initiatives.
Finally, the school offers Spanish courses through the German Bildungsurlaub scheme, and a variety of courses through the EU Leonardo da Vinci progamme.
More about International House
