EN 015
Course name: Week-Long intensive English Course for Second Grade Teachers in Elementary and Secondary Schools
Course Content:
The course is a series of loosely related seminars aimed at refreshing and deepening the methodical competences of second grade teachers at elementary and secondary schools. Activities will include a variety of methods, strategies, and teaching techniques that can immediately be utilized in the classroom. Participants will also work with the EJF (?) as a useful tool for self-assessment, personal development and self-evaluation. Participants will have room for creative work in the seminars, which will lead to the creation of working manuals on how to proceed in class; they will alsocreate their own worksheets. Teaching will take place through exchange, discussion, group work and individual work, and will be accompanied by active presentations, self-reflection and feedback from the participants as well as the lecturer. Participants will also get acquainted with available learning and supplementary materials, web portals, and free online materials.
Course objective:
Participants in the course will:
– Identify and describe learning styles, approaches and methods.
– Identify teaching activities to develop diverse learning styles and design different learning strategies.
– Engage in group discussions on possible pitfalls and the differences between their respective school environments.
– Assess the adequacy of freely available songs, stories and language games, and judge their suitability for developing language and pupils’ skills.
– Assess the difficulty and focus of the learning materials, examine their strengths and weaknesses, and evaluate their suitability for the development of language and pupils’ skills.
– Set CLIL goals for topics according to their own focus and their school’s focus and select their appropriate form of application.
– Develop and discuss specific activities aimed at developing language skills and knowledge and then analyze their effectiveness.
– Share the activities created with other participants during discussions, or online.
– Learn how to lead pupils to constructive work focused on error-evaluation, self-reflection and self-evaluation.
Minimum entry level: B1
Note:
Teacher:
Number of lessons: 30
Dates: to be specified
Class Time: to be specified
Teaching materials:
Example activities from copied materials;
Cambridge Copy Collection: Discussions, Games for Grammar, Imaginative Projects, Singing Grammar, Quizzes, Questionnaires and Puzzles, Exploring British Culture, Teen World;
Helbling / Cambridge Photocopiable Resources: Get on Stage, Grammar Songs and Raps;
Mary Glasgow Timesavers;
CLIL: CLIL Activities (Cambridge); Teaching other Subject Through English (Oxford); CLIL Physics;
Topics:
– Diagnostics of pupils and their learning styles, Bloom’s taxonomy, and its application to differentiated work in class
– The language system: presentation, scope and practice for school-aged pupils
– Language skills: presentation, scope and practice for school-aged pupils
– Work with errors
– Testing and assessment, taking into account pupils’ learning needs
– CLIL method, adaptation of principles taking into account the participants’ focus
– Work with textbooks / teaching materials and their possible adaptations
– Processing and displaying one´s own activities,
– Evaluation, self-reflection, experience and knowledge exchange
Price: 5.790 CZK