Reactive teaching
Course outline
This is a professional development course for teachers with ELT qualifications at Certificate or Diploma level, and teaching experience of at least two years who are interested in going beyond the course book and beyond methodologies which have become traditional and commonplace.
It is a two-week course concentrating on the classroom implementation of developments in ELT concerning student-generated language and language learning as suggested in approaches and writings such as Charles Curran's Community Language Learning and Carl Rogers' Freedom to Learn, and further developed in approaches such as "Dogme" in the last few years.
The course includes teaching practice (TP) which is observed and discussed by course participants and the course tutors. The aim of this TP is for experimentation with the ideas discussed and demonstrated on the course.
The course is certificated by International House Barcelona.
Content
- Dialogic, interactive approaches to teaching
- Helping students noticing language
- Working with emergent language
- The student-generated syllabus
- Materials free approaches to teaching and learning
- The learner as a resource
- Factors in promoting speaking skills
- Predicting emergent language as a factor in task design
- Assessment of communicative competence
- The role of technology in enabling learner-centred approaches
Online phase
Following completion of the course an online stage will take place during the first school term of the new academic year for participants to continue to share experiences and to confer with the course tutors.
The online phase uses the Moodle platform which requires basic computer skills such as using email.
Dates 2012
August 27—September 7
Fees
€940
