This practical course helps educators integrate AI and technology confidently and responsibly into their teaching. Through hands-on workshops, participants explore tools and strategies for lesson planning, assessment, feedback, and student engagement. The course highlights ethical and creative uses of AI to enhance communication, collaboration, and learner autonomy while avoiding digital overload.
Teachers will design classroom-ready activities, reflect on their digital competences, and connect with peers to share innovative ideas and projects. Ideal for educators seeking to enrich their practice and future-proof their teaching.
This course is eligible for Erasmus+ funding. Please contact us for further details.An ideal course for educators seeking to enrich their practice and future-proof their teaching.
Is this course for you?
Teachers who would welcome further training in adopting a principled approach to using AI & Tech in the classroom
20 - 24 July 2026
NILE Certificate
Registration fee: €150
Course fee: €475
Various as offered by Lacunza
Course content
Timetable
This course consists of 25 hours of tuition, usually delivered between 09:00 and 16:00, Monday - Friday. Each course includes an 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.
All NILE courses involve a significant element of English language improvement and/or the development of language awareness.
Lacunza IH
Lacunza, IH San Sebastian was established in 1958 and became part of the International House network in 1977, becoming one of the founding schools of EAQUALS in 1990.
Lacunza has continued to develop and strive for excellence ever since, and now has a highly qualified and experienced teacher training team that continue to teach, train and manage their language centres. Consequently, they can not only give you theory, but also practical ideas relevant to the ever developing 21st Century classroom.
www.lacunza.es/es/teacher-training-san-sebastian
Course Leader: Robert Martinez
Robert has worked in the field of ELT in Colombia, Italy, the UK, Canada, Singapore, Egypt, Spain, Bulgaria, Vietnam and Romania since 1994. He speaks Italian and Spanish at C2 level, French and Portuguese at B1 level. During his career he has trained teachers in many countries, assessed and moderated Cambridge teaching qualifications and exams all over the world, presented for Cambridge in Italy and designed blended courses for Moodle, as he is particularly interested in language learning, assessment and technology integration.
He holds the Cambridge CELTA and DELTA, TheConsultants-e Trinity-validated CertICT, a PostGraduate Dip in TESOL, an MA TESOL, an MA in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching, a PostGraduate Dip in Academic Management and the NILE MA in Professional Development for Language Education. He has tutored on the IHCYLT and currently teaches on the NILE Online eModeration course. Robert is a language assessment specialist for Cambridge and IDP IELTS, a CELTA Tutor and Assessor, an examiner for Cambridge PDQs and IGCSE English as a Second Language, and an IHWO and Eaquals Inspector.
