1. Courses for Secondary School Teachers
Develop your language AND your teaching skills in an enjoyable and stimulating atmosphere!
(Click on one of the Special Options below to find more details and course dates.)
Course Content
Each course features Language Development (15 hours per week) and a Special Interest Option (8 hours per week), allowing you to update your language in the mornings, and to develop your particular area of interest in the afternoons. Learning groups are small (normally, maximum 12, but may occasionally rise to 15) and you will also have the freedom to use our excellent study facilities.
Language Development
The mornings of our International Teachers Courses are language intensive and are designed to help you improve your fluency and command of English in stimulating ways. We use a continuously updated range of resources and materials to provide you with the ideal opportunity to enrich your language and to experience current approaches to exploiting authentic texts, DVD , off-air recordings, the Internet and communication technology in the classroom. Major areas covered will depend on participants’ needs, but may include:
- Advanced language practice, including idiomatic range, appropriacy and accuracy of expression, current usage, collocation, style and register, metaphorical and imaginative use of language
- Development of oral fluency
- Expansion of vocabulary
- Grammatical review
- Pronunciation, with special emphasis on the features of connected speech.
Special Interest Options
Special interest options are available in the following areas.
Please click on your area of interest below to find more details and course dates.
2. Language Development for Teachers of Young Learners
Course 1C: 4 July – 17July 2010 (2 weeks)
Course 2C: 18 July – 31 July 2010 (2 weeks)
Course 3B: 1 Aug – 14 Aug 2010 (2 weeks)
The key to success when teaching English to young learners is confidence in your own ability to use English. Are you sometimes uncertain about the best way to say something in English? Are you sure about the classroom language you use? Do you want to speak English in a relaxed and confident way?
These are all areas we will cover on this course. You could make a real difference to the quality of your English and especially to your level of confidence - even in a short period of 2 weeks.
You will be in a group with other teachers of young learners, and will concentrate on the areas of language most important in the context of teaching, including the language of the classroom. You will experience a variety of approaches and techniques and will be actively involved in developing your language skills. We aim to make the course an enjoyable and stimulating experience.
3. Trainer Development
Trainer Development Stage 1 with Tessa Woodward
Course A1: 3 Jan – 16 Jan 2010 (2 weeks)
This course is designed for native and non-native teacher trainers, educators, mentors, course directors – in fact anyone who has, or will have, responsibility for helping and supervising fellow professionals in ELT . We will focus on mentoring and supervising; helping teachers plan; observation, discussion and feedback; listening, and handling conflict; working with different styles; running workshops and refresher courses; trainer support materials; participant case studies; and language development for personal and professional purposes. The exact content will depend on the needs of the group.
Trainer Development Stage 2 with Tessa Woodward
Course B1: 17 Jan – 30 Jan 2010 (2 weeks)
This course is for trainers who have attended a Trainer Development course (Stage 1) with Tessa in the last 10 years. It is an opportunity to meet up with friends in order to review and consolidate ideas from the initial course and to share the successes and challenges you experienced as you applied and adapted these ideas to your own working environment.
The course will then explore additional areas including: course design principles for teacher training programmes; action research and how it can be used by teachers and trainers; participant training practice; frameworks – which can be applied to participant case studies – such as NLP Logical Levels, Heron’s 6 Category Intervention Analysis and Critical Incident Analysis.
Other topics will be discussed according to group needs and interests.
4. Specialised Training for Groups
We have considerable experience in designing ‘tailor-made’ courses to meet the specific requirements of particular groups of teachers. These courses can be offered at Hilderstone College or in your own country. Courses can be of any length and can be organised at any time of year. Our team of teacher trainers are experienced in a wide range of specialist areas, including:
- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
- Storytelling methodology
- Using multi-media and computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
- Teaching English for Academic Purposes (IELTS/TOEFL)
- CAE / CPE
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- Taking the ‘stress’ out of pronunciation
- Exploiting metaphor and lexical phrase theory in vocabulary teaching
- Evaluating post-communicative developments in methodology
- Training the trainer
- NLP
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