The British Council is offering a range of global courses for teachers of English.  In Cyprus, you can learn online with the British Council.

All our teacher training courses have been specially designed with EFL teachers in Cyprus in mind. All our global teacher training courses are delivered in our training centres across the world.

If you are an English language teacher in Cyprus, you can choose to take part in any or all the courses.

Just complete the Online Course Application Form  and email or fax to our offices

Please note that we need a minimum of 15 participants to start a course.

Primary Essentials (ETTO)

Primary Essentials (English Teacher Training Online-ETTO) Course is an online teacher development course designed for primary school teachers of English who would like to upgrade their teaching skills without attending a face-to-face course. It is delivered completely online via Moodle and has 6 highly practical modules plus lots of live classroom videos showing the techniques being used.

For details on the course please click here.

CLIL ESSENTIALS

Teaching curricular subjects in English, also known as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), is becoming more and more popular and requires a change in teachers’ skills set.

CLIL Essentials helps teachers understand CLIL methodology and apply good practice in the classroom.

The course helps teachers develop practical skills to introduce functional language, evaluate language challenges and adapt classroom tasks and forms of assessment. This will help their students understand the topics in a second language.

The course is for primary and secondary school teachers who teach curricular subjects in English. Participants are expected to have a minimum Council of Europe Framework (CEF) B1 level of English proficiency (IELTS 4.0).

For more information on this course please click here.

Learning Technologies for the Classroom (LTC)

The course will expose teachers to a range of practical techniques for exploiting learning technologies in the EFL classroom through MOODLE, a Virtual Learning Environment, with the aim to encourage teachers to reflect on pedagogy behind the use of learning technologies and raise awareness and enhance motivation as an English language teacher to use leanring technologies in the classroom.

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TKT Essentials

This online course  will introduce you to the basic ideas and methods behind the communicative approach to teaching English. The course material is based on the syllabus of Cambridge ESOL's Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) but even if you are not interested in taking the TKT exam, you will find this course provides a valuable introduction to communicative teaching and upgrades your teaching knowledge. It is delivered completely online via the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle and contains discussion forums, collaborative activities, external links and resources.

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CISELT (Certificate in Sedondary English Language Teaching)

The Certificate in Secondary English Language Teaching (CiSELT) is specifically for English language teachers working with learners aged 11–18.

(CiSELT)is an in-service course for secondary school teachers with a level of English B1 and above who are at the Developing and Proficient stages (3 and 4) of the CPDFramework. The course comprises a minimum of 48 hours of training materials plus assignments.The course has been designed with various flexible delivery models including:• face-to-face or online • as an extensive course based on one or two workshops a week or similar timescale • with part of the course delivered intensively as a block and as a modular format with individual modules completed over a longer period of time convenient for local needs.

The course will help you to:

• develop your methodological skills for this age group
• develop communicative, reflective and learning-centred teaching skills
• understand the process of learning and teaching
• deepen your knowledge and understanding of learner styles.
• The online course has 4 modules, each consisting of between 5–8 units.

Please contact Sencan Yesilada for further details about online courses.