NEW! Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching 1

NEW! TeachingEnglish CLIL Essentials

TeachingEnglish Primary Essentials

TeachingEnglish Learning Technologies Essentials

TeachingEnglish TKT Essentials

Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching 1 (CISELT 1)

This course is aimed at practising teachers with a level of English B1 and above and who work with learners in the 11–18 age range. It is a modular training course based on practical classroom methodology and assignments.

•Module 1 – Getting Started •engage learners in two-way communication

•make learning easier

•check understanding

•respond to learners effectively

This training package will improve teachers’ confidence and provide them with strategies to break information down, engage with learners and respond effectively.

TeachingEnglish - Primary Essentials

TeachingEnglish – Primary Essentials is a development course for teachers of English working with young learners aged 5 to 12. The course contains audio, classroom video and community elements.

TeachingEnglish – Primary Essentials can be used with a variety of teacher audiences, but it is especially intended for:

•Teachers with some primary EFL experience who wish to receive a practical primary EFL development course

•Experienced English teachers who are thinking of moving into the primary sector

•Experienced primary EFL teachers who feel the need to upgrade their primary EFL teaching skill

Course Overview

The course includes six modules:

1.An introduction to online learning

2.First steps in teaching children

3.Songs and games

4.Learning styles

5.Syllabus and lesson planning

6.Classroom management

Each of the content modules lasts around eight hours over and the course length is around 10 weeks online. Participants are assessed at the end of each module. These assignments form a portfolio on which the participants are given a final assessment of distinction/pass/fail.

Watch an animated tour of the Primary Essentials site!

The course aims to help participants:

•Identify some of the key issues associated with teaching English to children

•Identify different techniques for using songs and games to enhance children's learning

•Understand how different learning styles affect the way we learn and identify different techniques for exploiting different learning styles

•Define how lesson planning is linked to syllabus and curriculum and explain how the curriculum can define what you teach and how you teach

Course participants will need to have a computer with a reliable internet connection and up to 60 minutes each day including weekends in order to take part in this course.

TeachingEnglish  - Learning Technologies Essentials

This course can be used with a variety of teacher audiences, but it is especially intended for:

•Inexperienced teachers or teachers in pre-service training who wish to receive a basic introduction to ICT

•Experienced teachers who are being introduced to learning technologies for the first time through in-service training

Course Overview

The course covers the following areas and runs over:

1.Getting started – an introductory unit on how to use Moodle

2.An introduction to learning technologies

3.Evaluating and selecting websites

4.Integrating the Web

5.Searching

6.Copyright and copyright-friendly materials

7.Office applications for whole-class teaching

8.Using office applications in a computer room

9.Cyber well-being

10.Ideas for school links projects

11.Using the interactive Web in the classroom

12.Collaborative online writing

13.Online writing for students and teachers

14.Social networking for educational use

15.Practising listening and speaking with online audio

16.Practising listening and speaking with online video

17.The future and the end

Like all the British Council online courses, interaction is asynchronous, i.e. conducted over a period of time via email and discussion forums allowing for flexible learning.

To log on and have a look around, click below and use the username and password

•Please visit this website

•Username: demotrainer

•Password: D3mo

•Click on the admin option in the menu

Course participants will need to have a computer with a reliable internet connection and up to 60 minutes each day including weekends in order to take part in this course.

TeachingEnglish - TKT Essentials

TeachingEnglish – TKT Essentials can potentially be used with a variety of teacher audiences, for example:

•Teachers who are preparing to take the TKT test – either because they feel a UK-accredited test improves their prospects of promotion or because it has been recognised and credited by their Education Department

•Module 2 – Language Awareness

•Module 3 – Skills

•Module 4 – Core Classroom Issues

CiSELT is a two-level course:

1.CiSELT Proficient is focused on key methodological issues for teachers with approximately two years experience

2.CiSELT Advanced focuses on more specialised topics and the development of creative teaching and learning approaches.

Each level will be separately certificated.

Please indicate which level you are registering for in your registration form.

TeachingEnglish CLIL Essentials

A training course that blends the best of content and language teacher training to support teachers teaching other school subjects in English. The course is for primary and Secondary school teachers with a level of English B1 and above. Practical examples throughout the course reflect a range of subjects and age groups.

Based on the syllabus of Cambridge ESOL’s Teaching Knowledge Test CLIL module, but this course is more than a preparation course and taking the examination is optional. Content teachers can learn to integrate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) methodology with their existing skills and subject knowledge to

•Experienced teachers who want to refresh/update their knowledge of teaching theory in the communicative method

•Experienced teachers who are not familiar with the communicative methodology and would like to understand its principles and practice

•Inexperienced teachers or teachers in pre-service training who wish to receive a basic grounding in teaching theory in preparation for teaching practice.

Course Overview

The online course has three modules divided into 33 units between 90 and 180 minutes. Module 1 and Modules 2 and 3 are taken as two separate courses:

•Module 1 – language and background to language learning and teaching

•Module 2 – lesson planning and use of resources for language teaching

•Module 3 – managing the teaching and learning process

Like all the British Council online courses, interaction is asynchronous, i.e. conducted over a period of time via email and discussion forums allowing for flexible learning.

To log on and have a look around, click here and use the

username: demoparticipant

password: D3mo

Course participants will need to have a computer with a reliable internet connection and up to 60 minutes each day including weekends in order to take part in this course.

NEED MORE INFORMATION?

If you would like to find out more, please send an e-mail to Daniela Nuredini .