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English Teacher Refresher Courses
Choose from an exciting range of refresher courses for teachers of English. These 1-week and 2-week courses are a great way to energise your teaching with new ideas, techniques and activities.
Building on our highly successful two-week summer refresher courses, we are now offering an expanded programme including one-week courses during February and Easter. We can also offer courses on other dates to groupsand can tailor these courses to the specific needs of each group.
EU Funding and Course Packages: Erasmus Plus
Courses and Course Dates 2020
Two weeks: 06 July, 20 July, 03 August, 17 August (All courses)
One week: 13 April ( Creative Methodology & Methodology and Language only)
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Running from 9.15 in the morning, through to 15.00 in the afternoon, this 2 week 45 hour course is perfect for teachers who want the opportunity to improve their English, while at the same time energise their teaching with creative ideas and an introduction to stimulating alternative activities, strategies and approaches to teaching & learning.
As a result of attending this course, the participants will be more confident and fluent users of English and will be more creative professionals able to give lessons and use materials that are motivating, challenging and effective.
Key Features
| Max Group Size | 15 |
| Lessons Per Week | 30 (1 lesson=45 min) |
| Duration | 2 Weeks (1 week option available) |
| Progress | Individual testing & guidance |
| Levels | Upper Intermediate |
| Start dates | One week: 13/04/2020 |
| Start dates | Two weeks: 06/07/2020; 20/07/2020; 03/08/2020; 17/08/2020 |
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Programme training activities typically include (please see our sample timetable)
- Ways of presenting and practising grammar and vocabulary
- Using music, story, pictures and drama in your teaching
- Ideas for encouraging learner independence in the class
- Dealing with different learning styles
- Dealing with mixed level classes.
- Ideas to encourage pair/group work at different levels
- Work on pronunciation
- Adapting/supplementing course book materials
- Using texts for different purposes
- Blended learning and using on-line resources
- Teaching through fine arts
- Ideas for assessment/testing
- Practical classroom issues for teachers working in a monolingual context
- Dealing with "difficult behaviour"
Running from 9.15 in the morning, through to 15.00 in the afternoon, this 2 week 45 hour programme aims to energise your teaching with creative ideas and offer you some alternative activities, strategies and approaches to teaching & learning. This is an ideal course for experienced teachers who teach young adults (16+) and adults.
As a result of attending this course, the participants will be more creative professionals who will be able to design lessons and materials that are motivating, challenging and effective.
Key Features
| Max Group Size | 15 |
| Lessons Per Week | 30 (22.5 hours: 1 lesson = 45 min) |
| Duration | 2 Weeks (1 week option available) |
| Progress | Individual testing & guidance |
| Levels | Upper Intermediate |
| Start dates | One week: 13/04/2020 |
| Start dates | Two weeks: 06/07/2020; 20/07/2020; 03/08/2020; 17/08/2020 |
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Programme training activities typically include (please see our sample timetable)
- Adapting your teaching to different learning styles & learning needs
- Teaching grammar, vocabulary, and the four skills creatively
- Creative approaches to teaching pronunciation
- Putting life into course book exercises
- Adapting activities and tasks for different purposes and levels
- Learner autonomy and independent learning
- Student generated teaching
- Storytelling
- Using music, songs, visuals and the fine arts, drama and movement
- Introductions to one or more of the following approaches to teaching and learning: The Silent Way, Total Physical Response, Task Based Learning, Dogme Multiple Intelligence or The Lexical Approach
- Using blended learning and on-line resources creatively
Running from 9.15 in the morning, through to 15.00 in the afternoon, this 2 week 45 hour course is ideal for teachers teaching English to advanced students from upper secondary age groups and above and with levels B1+ and above. This methodology course introduces a wide range of exciting areas to explore with advanced students, providing you with fresh and motivating activities and strategies to improve your students’ English.
As a result of attending this course, the participants will be equipped with a variety of ideas and frameworks that will enable them to teach advanced students in a refreshing, more challenging way.
Key Features
| Max Group Size | 15 |
| Lessons Per Week | 30 (1 lesson=45 min) |
| Duration | 2 Weeks |
| Progress | Individual testing & guidance |
| Levels | Advanced |
| Start dates | 06/07/2020; 20/07/2020; 03/08/2020; 17/08/2020 |
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Programme training activities typically include (please see our sample timetable)
- How to create a powerful, motivated, cohesive study group
- Practical classroom applications of the work of Corpus Linguistics (the differences between authentic English and English that is taught at many schools and universities)
- Teaching lexis through the Lexical Approach
- Having fun with English through language games, humour, poetry etc.
- Using authentic materials
- Blended learning and using on-line resources
- Work on your own and the learners feeling for ‘the Spirit of English’
- Using short, challenging materials that can offer a refreshing alternative to endlessly long reading and listening texts
- Language and its relation to culture and identity; spoken grammar
Who is this course for?
- Looking for new techniques and activities to reinforce your teaching
- Eligible for EU Erasmus+ funding
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