Register for our online courses for teachers of English that will start in September 2012.
The fee is 9,000 dinars per course. Please send an e-mail to Kristijan Rajkovic or visit us. You would need to sumbit your payment in our office, Terazije 8/II floor, Belgrade.
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
- Module 2 – Language Awareness
- Module 3 – Skills
- Module 4 – Core Classroom Issues
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:
- An introduction to online learning
- First steps in teaching children
- Songs and games
- Learning styles
- Syllabus and lesson planning
- 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.
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:
- Getting started – an introductory unit on how to use Moodle
- An introduction to learning technologies
- Evaluating and selecting websites
- Integrating the Web
- Searching
- Copyright and copyright-friendly materials
- Office applications for whole-class teaching
- Using office applications in a computer room
- Cyber well-being
- Ideas for school links projects
- Using the interactive Web in the classroom
- Collaborative online writing
- Online writing for students and teachers
- Social networking for educational use
- Practising listening and speaking with online audio
- Practising listening and speaking with online video
- 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 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
- 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.
If you would like to find out more, please send an e-mail to Kristijan Rajkovic.
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