310 – Introduction to Teaching English to Secondary

Description

20-hour Online Teacher Development Course

Course Description:

The CTS-Secondary courses are for secondary school English teachers who often teach multi-level groups coming from different backgrounds, typically Grades 8-12. We tailor the exact content to meet the needs of the country so that the participants will become more aware of ?modern? approaches to English Language Teaching.

• All our online courses consist of on-demand input videos and downloadable resources, interactive exercises, tasks for the classroom and face-to-face interviews and feedback sessions.

Aims:

The course intends to give insights into:

• getting to know students, creating classroom contracts and basic classroom management
• asking questions, eliciting students? knowledge, giving clear instructions and explaining lesson content without translation
• lesson sequencing for reading and listening lessons with examples
• lesson sequencing for speaking lessons as well as example activities and their stages
• increasing interaction between students through the effective use of individual (thinking time), pair and group activities
• how to evaluate and adapt course book materials to extract maximum benefit