Teacher Refresher Course for Non-Native Teachers – CEC-T
Cork English College

DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE:
The course offers practical training in teaching techniques while also helping participants to improve their own language skills. Participants explore a wide range of topics including teaching methodology, exploiting and adapting materials, the increased role of technology in the language classroom, classroom management and approaches and activities for teaching all language areas and skills. Classes on Irish history, culture and the Irish educational system in addition to a full social and activity programme also form part of this intensive and dynamic course.

TARGET GROUPS:
- Teachers who teach English in primary or secondary school or to adults.
- Teachers who would like to meet and share ideas with colleagues from other schools and countries.
- Teachers who need practical, useful ideas for their classrooms.
- Teachers who want to improve their own English language knowledge.

AIMS OF THE COURSE:
A course for English language teachers aimed at providing practical training in the most up to date teaching techniques and improving participants language skills.

SAMPLE TIMETABLE:
1) Monday
- Induction and Needs Analysis: warmers and icebreaking activities
- Teacher Training: listening
- Tour of Cork City
2) Tuesday
- Language Clinic: narrative tenses
- Teacher Training: reading
- Supplementary Materials – use and adaptation
3) Wednesday
- Language Clinic: future forms
- Observation of experienced native teachers teaching at our junior summer school
- Feedback and analysis of the morning’s observation
4) Thursday
- Language Clinic: perfect tenses
- Teacher Training: error correction
- Games and Activities
5) Friday
- Language clinic: modal verbs
- Teacher Training: technology in the language classroom
- Guest educational lecture and sessions with questions

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY - Free Days

6) Monday
- Language clinic: idioms
- Teacher training: writing - fun ways to get your students writing
- Seminar on Irish History and Culture
7) Tuesday
- Language clinic: conditional Forms
- Teacher training: drama and role play for the language classroom
- Irish Educational System
8) Wednesday
- Language Clinic: past tenses
- Teacher Training: speaking - getting the most of speaking activities
- Visit to a site of cultural interest in Cork
9) Thursday
- Language Clinic: Gerunds and infinitives
- Teacher Training: pronunciation – teaching pronunciation, games and activities
- Irish culture; myths and legends
10) Friday
- Correction and feedback – when, what and how to correct
- Course evaluation and feedback

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
This programme includes:
- 20 Lessons per week (1 lesson = 60 mins) plus 5 afternoon lectures and visits
- Use of all pedagogical material
- Maximum of 15 students per class
- Certificate at the end of course
- Evening Social Programme
- Access to the E-Learning platform
- School Welcome Pack, Map and Notepad

Przykładowe zajęcia dodatkowe:

bilard *, bowling *, cycling *, horse riding *, piłka nożna *

boat cruises *, cinema afternoon/evening *, city tour/walk, conversation practice, country walk/trekking, cultural activities, dance lessons/workshops, dinner in a typical restaurant, extra grammar lessons, guided city tours *, guided museum tours *, international evenings, karaoke *, lectures on various topics, museum visits, orientation tour, pronunciation lessons/workshops, pub and restaurant evenings, shopping, theme workshops, visit to a brewery *, visits to music festivals *

Midleton Distillery *, Cobh *, Blarney Castle *, Kinsale and Charlesfort *, Cork City Gaol *, Cliffs of Moher *, Fota Wildlife Park *, Killarney Park and Torc Waterfalls *, Bunratty Castle *, The Ring of Kerry *, Kilkenny *, Crawford Art Gallery *, Abbey *, Jameson Distillery *

* zajęcia dodatkowo płatne