Teacher Development Courses

Introduction

Gain practical new ideas for the classroom and refresh your English through interaction with a native speaker and your English speaking colleagues. Whether you teach at primary, secondary or tertiary level, this course can be tailored to suit your needs. The courses are delivered through interactive workshops.

Structure

There are seven optional modules, each a day long, that are chosen by the school or organising body according to the length of the course and the interests of the participants. Each module consists of four 90 minute lessons. The first two lessons of each module focus on Themed language skills development, using a range of communicative activities of a specific type. This allows the participants to experience the dynamics of each activity and to consider how this activity type could be used in their own teaching context.

Lessons three and four focus on teaching skills development. In lesson three, the activity type practised in the first two sessions is analysed. Participants consider potential Problems, adaptations and variations, specifically in relation to their own teaching context.

In lesson four, participants are given a new topic, and work in groups to plan and present a short learning task using the activity type that has been practised and analysed in the module.

Sometimes the first and last days of the course will include orientation and wrap up sessions, and the modules on these days may be shortened to accommodate these additional sessions.