Primary Essentials is an online development course for teachers of English working with young learners aged 5 to 12. The course contains audio, classroom video and community elements. It encourages participants to take a constructivist approach to their learning. Optional face-to-face workshops can be added for blended delivery.
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
- identify a variety of classroom management factors which affect the learning conditions of your classroom.
The course includes six modules:
- An introduction to online learning
- First steps in teaching children
- Songs and games
- Learning styles
- Syllabus and lesson planning
- Classroom management.
If you express interest in the course, please contact Karlygash Tussupbekova, e-mail: Karlygash.Tussupbekova@kz.britishcouncil.org. We will collect this information for planning purposes and announce the course as soon as a group is formed.
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