This course will further your understanding of teenagers and the implications for teaching and learning in the 21st Century classroom.
You will explore aspects of ‘the teenage brain’, teenage motivation and behaviour and their impact on lesson planning and delivery.
You will observe and evaluate lessons with teenagers, create activities for working with language and also design tasks for developing skills. Towards the end of the course, you will consider the assessment of progress, homework and how to encourage learner autonomy. There will also be space to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion.
An ideal course for any teacher who would welcome the opportunity to re-evaluate their own teaching of teenagers and add ideas and activities to their own bank of resources, all while sharing and collaborating with others.
Is this course for you?
Teachers, academic managers and trainers who work in the area of teaching languages to secondary school-aged children (11 to 16-year-olds).
1 - 12 July 2024
5 - 16 August 2024
NILE Certificate
Registration fee: £175
Course fee: £1125
Homestay (half-board): £546
Residential (half-board): £616
Residential (self-catering): £546
Course content
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 Leader: Emma Heyderman
Emma has been in ELT since 1989. She has worked for several well-known language schools, most recently, as Director of Education for Lacunza – International House, San Sebastian where she was responsible for the academic programme and professional development.
Now freelance, Emma is a published author for Macmillan (Interface and Get Involved) and Cambridge (Compact Key and Complete Preliminary). She also runs workshops for secondary school teachers and is a regular speaker at national and international events.
Available dates:
Course dates | Location | Course length | |
01 - 12 July 2024 | Norwich | 2 weeks | |
01 - 12 July 2024 with Trinity CertPT | Norwich | 2 weeks | |
05 - 16 August 2024 | Norwich | 2 weeks | |
05 - 16 August 2024 with Trinity CertPT | Norwich | 2 weeks |