COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Teaching English with Technology course is designed for all teachers of English who wish to integrate, explore and develop the use of technology in language teaching.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This is a very practical course aiming to provide participants with lots of hands-on experiences in order to:
- develop participant English language skills and refresh their approach to teaching English
- improve participant confidence using technology
- enable practical and engaging classroom practices
- study how technology can be integrated into teaching
- raise awareness of how technology can support language learning
METHODOLOGY:
Input will be provided in a variety of ways (including seminars and practical workshops, trainer summaries and demo lessons) that take account of the course participants’ different learning preferences and styles. The starting point is the participants’ existing pedagogical knowledge. Participants will be encouraged to share their own ideas and experience, and develop networks with participants from other countries. The course includes two ‘challenges’ which are simulated teaching tasks. In these challenges, teachers will be asked to meet a situation and make informed decisions about what tools and technology to use and why. There will be opportunities throughout the course to exploit the UK context by collecting relevant authentic materials, making contact with native speakers and taking part in the school’s social and cultural programme, and outings.
PREPARATION:
A preparation pack is sent to participants on before the course. Before the start of the course, participants will be asked to complete a precourse questionnaire and a pre-course task which will enable the trainers to focus more specifically on the exact needs of the participants.
FOLLOW UP:
Participants will complete a study journal, or blog, during their stay to reflect on the new ideas they have experienced and on how they will incorporate them into their teaching. They also develop a classroom project. Follow up support is available via an alumni email group and participants will be encouraged to report on their progress. A course VLE will be set up for participants to collaborate and share online.
OUTCOMES:
- Improved personal English Language Skills
- Improved confidence in class
- Deeper sensitivity to cultural diversity
- Knowledge of other European Systems of Education
- Strategies, skills and activities of teaching EFL
- Better knowledge of Erasmus+ potential for your own and others’ professional development
- Enhanced classroom methodological practice
- Improving students’ motivation
- Interpersonal Skills and Teamwork
- Better awareness of learning needs, difficulties and behaviour
SAMPLE PROGRAMME:
1) Monday
- Welcome to school, briefing, orientation
- Your teaching context
- Warmers, fillers and team builders
2) Tuesday
- Reading and Writing (online). Genre Analysis: New e-genres
- Reading and Writing tools and apps
- Reading /writing workshop
- Evening: Welcome Drink
3) Wednesday
- Vocab and grammar (teaching with technology)
- Your teaching puzzles: technology mediated empathy
- Vocabulary / writing workshop
4) Thursday
- Listening / speaking: Visual and multimodal literacy / activities with video / audio
- Creating and using video / audio content / Podcasts / videos
- Video / audio workshop
5) Friday
- Pronunciation apps and websites
- Screencasts: why, how, when
- Tech field trip
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY - Free days. Weekend excursions available with additional fees!
6) Monday
- Tech challenge 1
- Feedback
7) Tuesday
- Tablets / The i-pad Apps and opportunities
- Creating digital presentation
- Digital presentation workshop
8) Wednesday
- Handheld mobile technology – class activities using the phone
- The flipped classroom / enhancing existing (course) materials
- Project based learning: managing and organising
9) Thursday
- Tech challenge 2
- Feedback
10) Friday
- Developing your PLNs
- Exhibition, rounding off and certificate ceremony
- Networking: farewell afternoon tea
* The minimum number required for the course is four students. In the event that we receive fewer than four students, please be assured that we will not cancel your booking. Instead, we will give you 20 lessons per week of General English in the morning with 10 lessons in the afternoon focussing on language teaching methodology either in a One-to-One, Two-to-One or Three-to-One class, as appropriate.
Przykładowe zajęcia dodatkowe:
bilard *, bowling *, horse riding *, tennis *, volleyball, water sports *, piłka nożna
cinema afternoon/evening *, city tour/walk, conversation practice, film evenings, football matches *, guided museum tours *, international evenings, museum visits *, orientation tour, pub and restaurant evenings, theatre or cinema visit *
Seven Sisters *, Arundel *, Stonehenge *, Canterbury *, London *, Oxford *, Stratford Upon Avon *, Bath *, Lewes Castles *, Warner Bros Studios *
* zajęcia dodatkowo płatne
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