Audience

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

Approach and methodology

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

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.

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.

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 Excellent/ Successful/ Unsuccessful.

Participants with Excellent/Successful marks will receive certificate from the British Council in a month time after the end of the course.

Participants are expected to have a minimum Council of Europe Framework (CEF) B1 level of English proficiency (IELTS 4.0).

We also offer optional face to face one day workshop towards the end of the course conducted by British Council teacher to discuss the issues in more depth. The course will take place if we have 10 participants at least. It will cost an additional 50 leva and will be held in Sofia.

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