Practical Teacher: Activities, Resources and Techniques to Enhance your Teaching
Who is this course for?
One of our most popular courses, Practical Teacher is for experienced English teachers who want a practical programme full of fresh ideas, technique demonstrations, activities and tasks which can be used to liven up and improve your language classes.
What will you achieve?
Take this course to:
– Experience, understand and use ELT materials for different teaching contexts
-Build your confidence in using a variety of techniques and approaches for teaching language and skills
-Explore ways to motivate and engage learners
-Share teaching experiences with other professionals
View the Sample Timetable nowWhat will Practical Teacher cover?
Enhance your Teaching
Our Practical Teacher course will introduce you to new ideas, techniques and approaches that you can use with young adult classes (secondary school) or with adult learners.
Personalise your Training
The exact course content will be chosen to meet the needs of the group. To do this, your tutor will conduct a needs analysis and provide relevant content based on your areas of interest.
Discover New Approaches
After taking your areas of interest into account, the result is an activity-based course programme. It will likely include the following areas:
-Activities and techniques to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing
-Introducing and practising new language: grammar, vocabulary, function
-Activities and techniques for teaching pronunciation
-Ways of dealing with emerging language, reformulation and correction
-Integrating new technologies into language learning
-Exploiting songs, games, media and other authentic resources
-Approaches for larger classrooms
-AI use in materials creation
Here is a Sample Timetable. Please note, this only gives an indication of what you will learn on the course.
| 2 weeks | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Week 1 9:00-13:00 |
Activities for Ice-breaking Activities for diagnosing language and skills needs Designing needs analysis for your learners |
Exploiting dialogues for listening / speaking Using dialogues for language teaching How to make your own dialogues |
Exploiting short clips, animation and short films for language and skills work How to choose clips for language teaching How to create your own film activities |
Teaching grammar creatively Exploiting a guided discovery approach to grammar How to design your own noticing activities |
Lexis activities that work Using or not using the mother tongue with lexis How to create meaningful lexis activities that get learners using the language |
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Week 2 9:00-13:00 |
How to develop listening skills rather than just test them Decoding and meaning-building activities How to choose your own texts ad design your own listening activities |
Modern pronunciation activities and techniques Working with sounds Working with connected speech How to keep drilling and other repetition activities fun |
Teaching 1:1 online/offline How to work with emerging language Correcting and extending learner language (written and spoken) |
Storytelling How to use stories to develop the 4 skills Using a TBL framework when designing linked skills lessons |
How to review language Activities and games for developing memory and recall How to train learners to keep and use lexical notebooks |
Trainee Accommodation
Homestays & Residences
We want your time in London to be super comfortable! Live with a welcoming host family to immerse yourself in British culture or stay at a modern student residence within Zone 1/2 of London.
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Get in touch
Book a Calendly consultation to speak with a course advisor on the phone or over a video call. Alternatively, you can complete our online Enquiry Form and our team will contact you via email or a phone call.
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