update your knowledge of teaching and share ideas with teachers from around the world
This course is designed for English language teachers from all kinds of backgrounds who want to re-think their classroom practice and improve their knowledge of up-to-date methods and techniques. As with all our courses, the content of sessions will be tailored to meet the needs of the individual course participants.
The aim is to give you more confidence to try out different teaching ideas and experiment with different methodologies, and to renew or enhance your enthusiasm for the teaching profession. You'll read articles about teaching, try out activities and approaches, use different teaching tools of all kinds, improve your own language skills, and above all share your ideas with teachers from all over the world in many different teaching situations.

A course to focus on methodology, on practical ideas, and much much more
Typical course content : .... Language sessions on idioms, collocations, colloquial language, slang ...
....... ....................... ..........An overview of English language teaching methodologies
........... ....................... ..........Practical teaching ideas
............... ........................ .........Using different technologies in the English language classroom
................... ....................... ..........Ideas for professional development
........................ ....................... ........Discussion of issues in the English language classroom
.............................................. .............How to use other subjects to improve English language skills
.................................................. .............Observation of teachers in the school
...................................................... .............Working with students of mixed nationalities to guide them in project work
.......................................................... ...............Visits to Blackwells bookshop, Oxford University Press...

 

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