This challenging 100-hour Certificate Course affords teachers the opportunity to brush up on their own English skills. Advanced grammar, accent reduction, common idioms and slang and oral presentation are focused for one hour of each class.

This course is designed to provide English teachers with a forum to review the complexities of teaching English as a second language and to investigate the differences in the customary teaching styles. Teachers will examine and review their own teaching style in relationship to different learning styles and explore the complexities of language acquisition with respect to cultural inclusion.

Round table discussions, lesson planning, team teaching and peer review will allow teachers to draw on their own experiences, share valuable “tools of the trade” and continue to seek out ways to enrich their own style of delivery in the exciting field of ESL. Teachers will also visit local schools to

gain a firsthand knowledge of a classroom environment in British Columbia .

This course is “a must” for teachers wanting to upgrade their ESL teaching techniques and to review their own ESL language skills.

Requirements: Participants must hold a Teaching Certificate from their own country or have a minimum 2 years experience as a teacher.

 

Course Outline:

• The communicative Classroom- Making Realistic Modifications for ESL Students

• Using Multimedia, Games and Activities in the
Language Classroom

• Lesson Planning – Team Teaching – Peer Review

• Teaching ESL to Children

• Classroom Management Skills- the Cooperative and Uncooperative Students

• Language Acquisition and Cultural Inclusion

• Review of ESL Pedagogy – Overview of Current Resources




 

 

 

ESL Objectives:

• Accent Reduction

• Idioms and Expressions

• Advanced Grammar

• Presentations