Teaching Young Learners
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Course outline
This is an introductory course for teachers who are new to teaching younger learners; that is within your first year or two of this type of teaching.
The five-week 100% online course is concerned with teaching children from the ages of seven to approximately fourteen or fifteen.
Course content
The course is very practical in nature and includes numerous teaching ideas to try out in your classroom. Once you have tried out the ideas you are invited to discuss the outcomes on the course forums with your fellow course participants and tutors.
The course content covers the following areas:
- Background to socio-construct theory, Universal Grammar and Learner Styles
- Classroom management
- Drama in the classroom
- Integrating skills work
- Lesson planning
- Project work
- Story telling
- Total Physical Response
- Technology with young learners
- Test design
All practical ideas are related to current theory and best practice in the teaching of young learners.
Course start dates
The next start dates for this 5-week course are as follows:
- January 23rd—February 24th, 2012
- April 16th—May 18th, 2012
- October 22nd—November 25th, 2012
Note that courses will not begin unless there is a minimum of 10 participants.
Length & time commitment
It is notoriously difficult to predict exactly how many hours an online course will take any given student. For our courses, we believe you should estimate at least 5-6 hours per module for the reading and completion of the tasks set, giving around 30 hours minimum for this particular course.
That estimate excludes the amount of class time you use for experimenting with the ideas and material from the course.
You should aim to complete each course module within 7 to 10 days.
Your tutors
The course tutors are all International House Barcelona CELTA and/or DELTA course tutors with many years of teaching and teacher training experience.
Course fees
€200.
Certification
Candidates will be awarded an International House Barcelona Online Training Certificate at the end of the course.
Application
To reserve your place on the course, fill in the online payment and application form.
Online teacher training courses from IH Barcelona
Courses currently available:
- Blended learning CertICT technology course
- Cambridge Exams (YLE, KET, PET and FCE)
- CLIL for Language Teachers
- Foundation TEFL course
- Language Analysis for English Teachers
- Teaching Pronunciation
- Teaching Vocabulary
- Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes
- Technology for Language Learning
- TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test)
- Teaching Young Learners
