NILE‘s accredited face-to-face teacher development courses run in July and August every year. Since 1995 we have trained thousands of teachers in the small, friendly city of Norwich.
A wide range of courses, expert trainers and a dedicated student services team make participants come back year after year, and we look forward to welcoming new and old participants back in the summer of 2024.
Most courses are two weeks long with 25 hours' teaching per week. Courses take place in our state-of-the-art teaching building a five-minute walk from Norwich Market, and at peak times also at our sister organisation INTO's premises at the UEA Campus.
NILE’s experienced trainers are specialists in their chosen fields of ELT and, using a combination of theory and practical application, they work hard to offer training sessions that meet your group's specific needs and priorities. They also support you in considering how to adapt the content to your own professional context and creating a strategy for putting your ideas into practice, getting the most out of your course for both you and your colleagues back home.
You’ll have access to excellent resources, including NILE's specialist ELT library and a digital platform with every course.
Many of our open-enrolment courses also offer you the opportunity to work towards the Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers as an extension to your 2-week programme.
All NILE’s accredited courses involve a significant element of English language improvement and/or the development of language awareness.
Our Accommodation and Welfare team is always on hand, and throughout your time in Norwich you will have the chance to meet, talk to and share experiences with international colleagues. You will also be treated to a rich and varied Social and Cultural Programme, leaving you with life-long memories to go alongside the skills and practices you develop during your stay.
Download Summer courses and Dates 2024
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Testing, Evaluation and Assessment
Raise your awareness of key principles in language assessment, by looking at the full range of formative and summative purposes of testing and assessment in language education and applying them to test design, construction and evaluation.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: August 2024
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Video, Image and Story in Language Education
Explore how human beings create and interact with video narratives and practice designing communicative language teaching ideas to make the most of video in and out of your classroom – including online contexts.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July 2024
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Trainer Development: a course for Teacher Educators
Familiarise yourself with the skills and qualities needed by teacher educators and raise your awareness of different models and practices in the area of Continuing Professional Development. Evaluate and design your own materials as well as a short, in-service or pre-service training course for a specific context.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July 2024
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Teaching English for Academic Purposes
Familiarise yourself with the theory and practice of current approaches and methods in teaching English for Academic Purposes and look at the development of EAP within the wider field of English for Specific Purposes, the key principles in EAP course design, and cross-cultural and intercultural issues in EAP.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: Available online only in 2024
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The Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers with NILE
The Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers (CertPT) is an in-service vocational teaching qualification at Level 6 on Ofqual’s Regulated Qualifications Framework. The qualification is defined around outcomes directly linked to pedagogy and requires the completion of four practical materials/teaching assignments which demonstrate your use and understanding of teaching/training resources in your professional context.
Location: Distance Supervision
Course dates: Year-round, post online and face-to-face courses