Teacher Training Courses

Outcomes:

• Analyse how students learn and how to motivate and maintain interest during lessons
• Critically reflect on your own teaching style and understand alternative teaching styles
• Discuss classroom management challenges and solutions e.g. differences in levels /li>
• Think about how to exploit classroom materials, getting the most out of textbooks for different situations

Content:

Choosing from the modular content on the course the group will explore:

• Modern teaching approaches, for example project and task-based learning, communicative and student-centred learning.
• Classroom management strategies, for example for emergent language, mistakes and feedback
• Teaching techniques to effectively develop students’ skills and language systems knowledge /li>
• Materials development – how to best take advantage of textbooks, source other published material and create self-made materials

Outcomes:

• Critically reflect on your own teaching style and understand alternative teaching styles
• Analyse how students learn and how to motivate and maintain interest during lessons
• Develop teaching strategies for the application of core CLIL methodology /li>
• Understand the challenges around interdisciplinary teaching and scaffolding learning in non-native speaking environment

Content:

Choosing from the modular content on the course the group will explore:

• CLIL teaching methodology, for example the 4Cs and integrated skills work
• Classroom management strategies, for example for emergent language, mistakes and feedback
• Teaching techniques to effectively balance the development of students’ language skills and subject knowledge /li>
• Materials development – how to best take advantage of textbooks and other sources to create CLIL materials

Outcomes:

• Meet recent ideas from scientific and educational research, for example cognitive load and mental modelling, and how they apply to learning
• Use examples of recent technological advances, for example AI testing, to discuss how ed-tech developments can be incorporated into your teaching
• Critically reflect on your own teaching style and understand alternative teaching styles /li>
• Think about how to exploit design curriculums and resources to reflect cutting edge trends

Content:

Choosing from the modular content on the course the group will explore:

• Contemporary teaching theories, for example different forms of collaborative learning or learning unplugged
• How technology can help and hinder in the classroom and curriculum
• Blended learning and flipped classroom possibilities /li>
• How technology can help track students’ progress and with different forms of assessment

Outcomes:

• Analyse how children learn and how to motivate and maintain their interest during lessons
• Critically reflect on your own teaching style and understand alternative teaching styles
• Discuss classroom management challenges and solutions for different age groups /li>
• Think about how to create activities and longer schemes of work that allow for the effective acquisition of new language

Content:

Choosing from the modular content on the course the group will explore:

• Where communicative language teaching and teaching young learner methodologies overlap, for example phonics and storytelling
• Classroom management strategies, for example supporting students with special educational needs
• Teaching techniques to effectively develop students’ skills and language systems knowledge whilst those skills are still developing in their own languages /li>
• How content from English speaking cultures can enrich children’s learning experiences

Outcomes:

• Analyse how exams are structured and the purpose of different parts
• Critically reflect on how best to teach the language systems and communication sub-skills that are assessed
• Discuss the best way to use feedback loops and different forms of assessment to improve students’ performance /li>
• Think about how to best exploit published resources and authentic materials in support of exam preparation

Content:

Choosing from the modular content on the course the group will explore:

• Teaching techniques to teach examination and study skills communicatively
• Classroom management strategies, for example maintaining engagement and expectations
• Exam taking ‘tricks of the trade’ and how best to integrate them into lessons /li>
• Ways to balance exam preparation and ongoing language improvement