Teaching Young Learners
Outcomes:
- Analyse how children learn and how to motivate and maintain their interest during lessons
- Critically reflect on your own teaching style and understand alternative teaching styles
- Discuss classroom management challenges and solutions for different age groups
- Think about how to create activities and longer schemes of work that allow for the effective acquisition of new language
Content:
Choosing from the modular content on the course the group will explore:
- Where communicative language teaching and teaching young learner methodologies overlap, for example phonics and storytelling
- Classroom management strategies, for example supporting students with special educational needs
- Teaching techniques to effectively develop students’ skills and language systems knowledge whilst those skills are still developing in their own languages
- How content from English speaking cultures can enrich children’s learning experiences
