Teach English courses

Know it-Teach it: Grammar

• develops your own language awareness and grammar terminology 
• explores the major areas of English grammar, helping you build your confidence in presenting language clearly and dealing with students' errors
• demonstrates interesting student-centred activities
• examines how to teach grammar in an engaging and authentic way 

Know it-Teach it: Pronunciation

• raises your awareness of the sound systems of English and examines common areas of difficulty for students
• explores how to teach pronunciation in a memorable and fun way 
• introduces pronunciation games, activities and correction techniques for learners of all ages
• helps you to confidently teach learners to use the sounds of English for clear communication  

Know it-Teach it: Speech and Drama

• examines the rationale for using process drama to support learning across the curriculum 
• introduces warm up games and activities to improve learning 
• explores teacher friendly tools and techniques to improve student confidence with speaking 
• helps you become more confident at leading drama activities for your own classroom 

Know it-Teach it: Vocabulary

• explores how a lack of vocabulary impacts reading comprehension, writing skills and subject area understanding as well as overall academic success
• examines the dimensions of knowing a word in order to support students moving words from passive to active vocabulary and use new words in spoken and written language 
• provides guidelines and frameworks for acquiring new vocabulary 
• how to plan robust vocabulary lessons through explicit teaching and thought provoking follow up

Intensive Grammar: A refresher 

• revisits basic terminology and common structures, including parts of speech, modals and conditionals 
• demonstrates different approaches to present and clarify grammar, incorporating an overview of tenses 
• gives participants practice in dealing with errors in the classroom 
• helps you explain and correct student errors  

Intensive Vocabulary (6-hour)

• introduces key concepts in vocabulary learning and teaching 
• explores how to record, review and recycle vocabulary to “make it stick” 
• demonstrates a variety of techniques and activities and gives participants practice with these. 
• looks at how vocabulary can be integrated into lessons and gives participants practice in designing their own tasks

Introduction to Teaching Business English (3-hour)

• identifies key focus areas in Business English training 
• explores the importance of needs analysis and how to tailor activities to client needs 
• looks at designing lessons around work-related texts and situations 

Introduction to Teacher Training and Development (3-hour)

• explores how to identify teacher development goals and appropriate professional development strategies 
• helps participants with considerations when designing and delivering professional development sessions
• looks at how to approach observation and give feedback effectively

Teaching Students of Different Abilities

• looks at the nature of differentiation and differentiated instruction 
• guides teachers in developing and adapting materials to meet the need of students with different abilities 
• equips teachers with approaches and strategies to scaffold differentiated learning and assessment of language and skills 
• lets teachers try out developing their own differentiated lesson materials 

Creative Thinking Tools for the Early Childhood Classroom

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Grammar and Vocabulary in the Early Years

• discussed how to tap into children's natural language learning ability and looked at the pitfalls of isolated language lessons
• learned how to develop a story-based lesson plan
• demonstrated how to exploit themes and plan for engaging opportunities for students to use new grammar and vocabulary 
• gained the opportunity to design your own materials

How to Teach English: Pre-School (20-hour)

• learned practical ideas for planning and delivering lessons to pre-schoolers
• demonstrated lessons with games and songs for developing student language
• develops your skills as a story reader and storyteller and using classroom drama 
• allows you to practice the methodology through lesson planning 

Know it-Teach it: Phonics and Early Reading Skills

• examines how children learn to read and the stages of reading 
• exploited a well-known phonics and sight-reading system
• explores letter sounds, decoding, digraphs, sight words, sounds and spelling 
• helps you use exploit materials through hands-on activities

How to Teach English: Primary

• explores the characteristics of primary learners and models how to plan and deliver an effective lesson 
• examines and exploits the relationship between the language domains of listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and representing 
• develops techniques for presenting grammar and vocabulary
• consolidates your learning through lesson planning 

How to Teach Reading: Primary

• examines the developmental stages that lead to reading proficiency and the skills that demonstrate “reading readiness” and learned how to increase reading motivation
• explores the key approaches to reading instruction: Interactive Read-Aloud, Shared Reading, Guided Reading, Independent (Extensive) Reading
• helps you understand the relationship between vocabulary, reading fluency and reading comprehension 
• explains the role of formative assessment in guiding the reading process and  introduces a number of assessment and evaluation tools to inform your planning for reading success and to promote student achievement

How to Teach Writing: Primary

• examines the stages of writing development and the profiles of primary-level writers 
• describes the essential principles, methods, and structures of effective writing instruction, and learned the elements of writing that require explicit instruction
• demonstrates lessons based on five high-yielding instructional approaches to teaching writing, including working with mentor texts, text types, genres and formats
• helps you learn to run teacher-student or peer writing conferences to support young writers with formative feedback 

How to Teach English: Secondary 

• explores the unique opportunities for learning and motivation presented by the teenage brain 
• examines how to develop motivating reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing language lessons 
• supports you in providing grammar and vocabulary instruction 
• consolidates your learning through lesson planning 

How to Teach Reading: Secondary

• develops an awareness of the role of the reading process in learning
• considers the thought processes involved during reading and gained an understanding of the challenges that students face as readers in the subject areas
• explores the sub-skills of reading, including summarising and making inferences, and examined text types and structures and appreciated how making connections supports deeper reading of texts
• models lessons and experienced a range of techniques for explicitly teaching reading skills and building reading motivation 

How to Teach Writing: Secondary

• examines the process, product and genre approaches to instruction, and appreciated key differences between teaching writing and editing writing
• explores a range of ideas for building student knowledge and ideas to support their writing
• models lessons and practised techniques for explicitly teaching writing skills
• considers ways of providing effective formative feedback to students on their writing, including peer, self and teacher feedback and practised a range of techniques for publishing students’ writing to increase motivation

Teaching the Unseen

• looks at the challenges faces by teachers and students in preparing for the ‘O’ level Unseen paper 
• suggests strategies for helping students prepare for the Unseen paper in the ‘O’ level exams 
• demonstrates model activities based on poetry, prose and dramatic literature 
• gives teachers practice in evaluating and developing tasks for preparing students for the Unseen paper 

How to Teach English: Adults

• understood the needs of adult learners at different levels
• acquired the knowledge to select and exploit a course book to suit your learners
• demonstrated how to plan language lessons and skills lessons
• gained hands-on experience through a variety of model lessons and tasks

Advanced Skills in How to Teach Listening

• explores the listening needs of adult learners and the different sub-skills involved
• shows participants how to plan and scaffold listening lessons for a range of ability levels including bottom-up and top-down approaches and strategies to repair breakdowns in communication 
• helps participants understand how to integrate listening with language work and how to exploit authentic texts 
• discusses how listening skills can be encourages and developed beyond the classroom 

Advanced Skills in How to Teach Reading

• explores the reading needs of adult learners and the different sub-skills involved 
• shows participants how to plan and scaffold reading lessons for a range of ability levels including bottom-up and top-down approaches 
• helps participants understand how to integrate reading with language work and how to exploit authentic texts 
• discusses how reading skills can be encouraged and developed beyond the classroom 

Advanced Skills in How to Teach Speaking

• explores the speaking needs of adult learners and the different sub-skills involved
• shows participants how to plan and scaffold speaking lessons for a range of ability levels with a focus on accuracy, fluency, functional language and overall communicative competence 
• demonstrates different approaches to feedback and spoken errors 
• discusses how speaking skills can be encouraged and developed beyond the classroom 

Advanced Skills in How to Teach Writing

• explores the writing needs of adult learners and the different sub-skills involved 
• shows participants how to plan and scaffold writing lessons for a range of ability levels using process, product, and genre-based approaches 
• helps participants evaluate and provide effective feedback on written work 
• discusses how writing skills can be encouraged and developed beyond the classroom