130 – Teaching Young Learners

Description

20-hour Online Teacher Development Course

Course Description:

Whether you are a newly graduated teacher looking forward to grabbing a chance to enhance your skills in this area of instruction or a more experienced teacher with some experience teaching younger learners, this course will help you develop to teach more effectively. The course enables the participants to bring creative teaching into the young learner classroom implementing a child-centred approach through activities which can be personalized to the needs of young learners.

Given how world is changing at an incredibly rapid pace, being a skilful and efficient teacher of young learners requires a set of new competences and continuous learning. This course provides an extensive modern training program to teach young learners and drawing on the participants? experience of teaching young learners, the course presents both more traditional classroom activities as well as those which exploit new technologies to keep students engaged.

Aims:

• Understanding the theory behind teaching methods and approaches
• Analysing activities through experiencing them with loop input
• Considering large classes
• Considering different ages from very young learners to teens
• Extra reading, links and resources to take you further