Modern Teacher
Outcomes:
- Analyse how students learn and how to motivate and maintain interest during lessons
- Critically reflect on your own teaching style and understand alternative teaching styles
- Discuss classroom management challenges and solutions e.g. differences in levels
- Think about how to exploit classroom materials, getting the most out of textbooks for different situations
Content:
Choosing from the modular content on the course the group will explore:
- Modern teaching approaches, for example project and task-based learning, communicative and student-centred learning.
- Classroom management strategies, for example for emergent language, mistakes and feedback
- Teaching techniques to effectively develop students’ skills and language systems knowledge
- Materials development – how to best take advantage of textbooks, source other published material and create self-made materials
