This module focuses on the principles and practice of planning and teaching. Topics include:
Portfolio of coursework including a professional development assignment, background essays and assessed teaching practice. As well as observing lessons, you will prepare, teach and evaluate four lessons – one is externally assessed by a Cambridge English assessor. You will complete five assignments, which all contribute to the final grade.
| Assignment | Tasks |
| Professional Development Assignment | The assignment has two parts: Reflection and Action (2,000–2,500 words) Experimental Practice (1,500–2,000 words) |
| Two Language Systems Assignments | Each Language Systems Assignment includes: -a background essay (2,000–2,500 words) about an area of language systems and related teaching and learning issues -planning, teaching and evaluation of a lesson related to the chosen area. |
| Two Language Skills Assignments | Each Language Skills Assignment includes: -a background essay (2,000–2,500 words) about an area of language skills and related teaching and learning issues -planning, teaching and evaluation of a lesson related to the chosen area. |
The summer intensive course is ideal for teachers who want to immerse themselves in the Delta. It’s full-time and challenging but brings with it huge rewards.
Module 2, taken part-time, requires a lot of arranging and coordinating with tutors and assessors. With the summer intensive at International House, everything is done for you (except the teaching, of course).
The course runs for 7 weeks Monday to Friday 10am-6pm.
This 16 week online course will give the trainees the opportunity of teaching their own students (classes can be arranged by IH Izmir if it’s needed). Whether you are teaching face-to-face or online, video observations will be arranged throughout the course which means that you DON’T need to nominate a local tutor to observe and assess your teaching practice.
The course has a very flexible timetable as every trainee will be getting an individual consultation from the tutors and this can be arranged depending on the availability of both the tutor and the trainee. The trainees can continue the course at their own pace as long as they finish each LSA end of every 4 weeks and take the necessary input every week.
Trainees will receive both synchronous and a-synchronous input throughout the course. Input may be in the form of live sessions hosted on a platform such as Zoom, or Moodle based sessions with trainees collaboratively working on documents, presentations, or materials.
Most of the input sessions will be given on Saturdays.
