This course is aimed at providing non-native speakers of English with insights into their own and colleagues’ teaching practice in a pan-European context.

Suitable for
Teachers of adults
Teachers of foreign languages, especially EFL teachers
1. One or two weeks Linguistic/Cultural Course
2. One week practical school attachment helping and observing in a language school for adults. 5 full days per week, excluding Bank Holidays - guided observations, working with Host Teacher(s), directed tasks, team teaching and assignments.

Outcomes

• Improved confidence in lesson delivery
• Wider use of authentic subject and classroom vocabulary (for use in CLIL)
• Insights from pedagogic and cultural exchange (the European Dimension)
• New teaching strategies, skills and activities including the use of ITC
• Greater personal fluency in English
• Extension of knowledge of learning styles
• Increased awareness of methodological approaches and resources
• How to integrate new and traditional strategies into
  successful classroom practice
• Knowledge of the UK National curriculum and comparative benefits

Topics
History, social science, economics, geography; Literature, languages (incl. CLIL), classical languages; Pedagogy and didactics; School management, educational leadership

Key competences
Foreign language; Maths, science and technology

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