CLIL and Communication Skills

COURSE INFORMATION:
We run Teacher Training courses for practising English language teachers. These courses are suitable for teachers of English who would like to update their English language skills and learn new teaching methods. The courses aim to offer opportunities to teachers to further develop their English language competence, to refine their current teaching practices, to examine different approaches and methods and to develop materials for classroom use. In the afternoons, course participants may be expected to do project work as well as visiting places of social and cultural interest. Evening activities may also be organised.

In this ourse you will immerse yourself in communicative language teaching and CLIL. You will spend your mornings in input sessions (lectures and workshops) and your afternoons exploring the city with profesionally guided tours. You can expect to come home with many new ideas and practical material to implement in your clasroom.

REQUIREMENTS:
In order to participate effectively in these courses, teachers should have a minimum level of B2 on the CEFR. These courses are subject to a minimum of 6 participants per course (10 during summer months). The maximum number of students per class: 15.

CORE MODULES:
- Communicative Language Teaching
- Teaching through Collaboration
- Creating Student Voice and Choice
- Teaching Through Creativity
- Teaching Through Language Tasks
- Teaching Through Technology
- Teaching ThroughPronunciation
- Teaching CLIL
- Designing CLIL Classes
- Teaching Practice
- Team Teaching
- Peer and Tutor Critical Friend
- Educational Systems around the World
- The Web as a Teaching Resource
- Teaching Through Film
- Using Ted Talks in the Classroom
- Reflective Jurnaling

COURSE OUTCOMES:
- Increased personal confidence in English language teaching
- Increased knowledge of students needs
- Increased awareness of technology and the internet as a teaching resource
- Increased awareness of the possibilities of exploiting texts
- Increased awareness of trends in assessment, self-assessment, peer assessment and reflection
- Creation of a digital portfolio of projects, tasks and web tools for language teachers
- Sharing of experience/knowledge with professionals from a range of European countries
- Knowledge of Erasmus+ potential for professional development

OTHER INFORMATION:
This course includes:
- Lessons: 2-weeks course consisting of 56 hours taken over 10 days from Monday – Friday
- Use of digital materials for course
- Excursions and Social Programme Monday to Friday
- Completion Certificate

Przykładowe zajęcia dodatkowe:

city tour/walk, museum visits, pub and restaurant evenings, sightseeng, walking tour, Kilmainham Gaol *, Howth Cliff Walk *, Dublinia Viking Experience *, Guiness Storehouse *, Story Telling Walking Tour *