Refresher for Teachers of English

Course programme

Preparation
All participants are required to fill in a Pre-Course questionnaire. It is very important that this is returned at the earliest opportunity as the course is pre-planned based on this. The course content is outlined and discussed on the first afternoon, and is then adapted as appropriate.

Course aims

• To "brush up" and improve your competence and confidence in English
• To update your methodology, management and practical teaching techniques and skills
• To examine and reflect on your own approaches and attitudes to teaching and learning
• To become more aware of what you and others do in the classroom
• To discuss and share ideas, problems, methods and techniques with peers from other parts of the world

Teaching techniques
In the afternoon sessions, participants will experience a variety of teaching techniques, materials, devices and procedures designed to help students acquire language. There is a focus on current methodologies and practical
teaching skills that participants will evaluate for effectiveness and also discuss ways of adapting these to fit in with different teaching contexts.

Description of training content

• 17.5 hours per week of language enrichment (09:00 – 13:00)
• 5 hours per week of Spoken Performance workshops (09:00 – 10:00)
• 12.5 hours per week of skills lessons (10:15 – 11:15 / 11:30 – 13:00)

Spoken Performance Workshop
Students are set tasks that challenge them to develop their speaking skills across a range of different everyday situations and experiment with their newly acquired language.

Skills lessons
A structured curriculum which integrates grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation with the four main skills area of speaking, listening, reading and writing.

10 hours of Teachers Methodology (14:00 – 16:15)

Sample Timetable
08.45 - 09.00 - Plenary session: news review
09.00 - 10.00 - Fluency Workshop
10.00 - 10.15 - Break
10.15 - 11.15 - Skills lesson
11.15 - 11.30 - Break
11.30 - 13.00 - Skills lesson
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 - Teachers Methodology
15.00 - 15.15 - Break
15.15 - 16.15 - Teachers Methodology
16.15 - 16.30 - Plenary session: consolidation