Superior Homestay
From £275 per week
Spacious, well-presented homes, with large bedrooms and shared bathroom facilities. Enjoy excellent home cooked meals.
Find out moreActivities, resources and ideas to liven up your classroom
Who is this course for?
One of our most popular courses, this course is for teachers who want a practical programme that covers developing resources, practical ideas and methods to liven up classrooms and motivate students.
What will you achieve?
Take this course to:
- Select, adapt and design materials for different contexts
- Build your confidence in using a variety of teaching techniques
- Understand ways to motivate and engage learners
- Share teaching experiences with other professionals
Course outline
Our Practical Teacher course will introduce you to new techniques and approaches that you can use in the classroom.
The course is an activity-based programme and examples include:
- Activities to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing
- Selecting and exploiting materials
- Activities for teaching pronunciation
- Teaching using a task-based learning approach
- Using student mistakes to aid understanding
- Dealing with emerging language and reformulation
- Introducing and practising new language: grammar, vocabulary, function
- Integrating new technologies into language learning
- Using songs, games and videos
- Preparing students for examinations
- Dictogloss and dictation activities
The course content will be chosen between your course group and tutor. You can include other topics not mentioned above.
Meet the trainer:
Danny Norrington-Davies, CELTA and Delta Trainer
Danny started teaching English over 16 years ago in Botswana and gained his CELTA in the UK in 1995. He worked with Japanese volunteers in Malawi before returning to London to complete his Delta. He has taught in Argentina, South Africa and Thailand. Danny has been with IH London since 2007. He is a CELTA and Delta trainer and works on programmes at King’s College London. He is the author of a teaching methodology book, From Rules to Reasons, which was short listed for an ELTON award. He works on our partner courses at King’s College London.
The Practical Teacher Online course can be booked alone, or with an Online Level 6 Trinity Cert PT qualification. When studying with the Trinity Cert PT qualification, trainees will need to complete four additional assignments in order to gain their level 6 qualification. To find out more about the Trinity Cert PT qualification, visit the course page.
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We are always happy to help you find the perfect teacher training course.
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We also offer a Trinity Cert PT course, where you can study the Practical Teacher course with the addition of a Trinity qualification.
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Accommodation
Chapter Kings Cross
Rate: £497 per week
Close to the central King’s Cross St Pancras train station, Chapter was recently completely refurbished and has great modern facilities. Studio with private bathroom and kitchenette. On-site gym, cinema room, games area with table tennis, pool table and table football, study areas, social spaces and courtyard. Zone 1.
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Chapter Highbury
Rate: £387 per week
A modern student residence located in vibrant north London. It is moments from Holloway Road and is just two tube stops away from King’s Cross, making it the ideal location for easy connections across the city. Cinema, on-site gym, great study space, games and karaoke room, social space, study booths and TV area. Single rooms with private bathrooms. Zone 2.
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Standard Homestay
From £225 per week
Comfortable homes with cosy bedrooms and shared bathroom facilities. Enjoy excellent home cooked meals.
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Executive Homestay
From £326 per week
Spacious, well-presented homes, with large bedrooms and private bathrooms. Enjoy excellent home cooked meals.
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Accommodation
We have a range of accommodation options to suit you, including homestay with a host, one of our modern student residences, a boutique-style guest house, or even a hotel if you prefer.
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Why train with us?
At IH London, we really believe in the best teaching and always have. We are a charitable trust and our founders created the very first EFL qualification, now known as the CELTA.
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