Do you want to move from language teaching into language teacher training? Are you already a teacher trainer but don’t have a formal qualification to prove it?
Enrol on the British Council Professional Award for Teacher Educators!
This partnership between the British Council and NILE to offer the Professional Award for Teacher Educators to international participants. The course and integrated assessment programme has been developed by British Council, and is delivered in the UK by NILE experts in language teacher development, to develop, measure and validate the competences required for planning and running in-service and pre-service language teacher education programmes.
Is this course for you?
Certification for success in the Professional Award from the British Council
Registration fee: £175
Course fee: £1125
Assessment fee: £175
Homestay (half-board): £546
Residential (half-board): £616
Residential (self-catering): £546
Course content
This unit focuses on transferrable skills from teaching to training; initial assessment, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and catering for learner differences.
Participants develop skills in assessing and adapting training activities, giving instructions effectively and providing constructive feedback. An important element of the unit is micro-training where participants plan, deliver and provide peer feedback on teacher development activities.
The focus in this unit is on planning, designing and delivering a 50 minute workshop suitable for use in candidates’ own teacher development contexts.
The course and assessment consists of three units, which focus on:
- transferrable skills from teaching to training, initial assessment, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and catering for learning differences;
- assessing and adapting training activities, giving instructions effectively and providing constructive feedback;
- planning, designing and delivering a workshop suitable for use in candidates’ own teacher development contexts
Timetable
This course consists of 50 hours of tuition, delivered between 09:15 and 16:00, Monday - Friday. You will also take part in cross-curricular workshops on a variety of topics, and each course includes a free evening and weekend programme of social and cultural activities and trips.
Further Information
Specific course content comes from feedback you and other participants give us through pre-course questionnaires, identifying your needs and priorities.
Time will be built into the course for reflection and for you to consider how to adapt ideas from the course to your classroom in your own professional contexts.
NILE offers homestay accommodation with carefully selected hosts and residential accommodation at the University of East Anglia. NILE’s dedicated student welfare team can be reached 24 hours a day.
All NILE courses involve a significant element of English language improvement and/or the development of language awareness.
Course Leaders
Thom Kiddle
Thom has worked at NILE since 2011. He has previously worked in Portugal, the UK, Australia, Thailand and Chile in language teaching, teacher training and language assessment.
Maria Heron
Maria has been working as a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer for forty years. She has trained teachers in the UK, Argentina, Chile, Western Europe, Kazakhstan and Canada. She is CELTA Centre Manager at NILE and has set up a CELTA centre at ICBC in Santiago de Chile and delivered CELTA courses in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Perm, Russia.
