Comenius 2.2 2009: formazione con la Lake School, Oxford
programma 2009
The Lake School of English è stata fondata nel 1978 ed è accreditata dalla British Council e English UK per l'insegnamento della lingua inglese. Lake School è anche una scuola di lingua Quality English.
Il suo scopo è quello di promuovere la comprensione internazionale fornendo agli studenti provenienti da tutto il mondo corsi di lingua inglese di ottima qualità.
La città
La città di Oxford è situata a 90 chilometri da Londra, ha circa 85.000 abitanti e ben 30000 studenti! La storia di Oxford, famosa per la sua eredità culturale ed accademica, risale al VII secolo. Questa città oggi rappresenta un meraviglioso miscuglio di tradizioni antiche e di un moderno splendore cosmopolita. La Oxford University, la più antica della Gran Bretagna, ha quasi 800 anni, ma Oxford non è solo una città accademica. È una città d'arte ricca di cultura con musei, teatri e cinema. Inoltre pullula di caffè, ristoranti, bar e locali di divertimento. Quasi ogni area della città è raggiungibile a piedi, ma Oxford è perfetta anche per i ciclisti. È inoltre ben servita da un efficiente servizio autobus.
5 passi per ottenere i fondi Comenius:
1. scegliere il corso che vuole fare
2. fare la pre-iscrizione al corso usando il modulo scaricabile da questa pagina
3. fare la domanda per i fondi Comenius
4. quando riceve l'esito dalla domanda, comunica il risultato (positivo o non) a noi (ALP, Bergamo)
5. se l'esito è positivo, pagare il corso e il soggiorno tre settimane prima del inizio del corso
Il corso a Oxford che fa parte del database Grundtvig:
Refresher Course in Practical, Creative Methodology for Overseas English
Click per info: Primary School Language Teachers
Click per info:Secondary School Language Teachers
Grundtvig database reference: UK-2007-486-5
Grundtvig database course information page:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=3745
Primary Teachers
Target: teachers in primary school
Course length: 2 weeks
Lessons: 30 lessons a week - 45 minutes per lesson
Course dates and fees 2009
> 19/01/2009 - 30/01/2009
> 20/04/2009 - 01/05/2009
> 01/06/2009 - 12/06/2009
> 06/07/2009 - 17/07/2009
>20/07/2009 - 31/07/2009
> 03/08/2009 - 14/08/2009
> 17/08/2009 - 28/08/2009
> 16/11/2009 - 27/11/2009
Price
per calcolare il prezzo in Euro, dividi il prezzo in Sterline per 0,835 — tasso di cambio aggiornato al 21/11/2008.
Course £GB 555
Accommodation and meals (host family, single room, half board) £GB 275
Cancelation fee £GB 300
Fare la pre'iscrizione ore usando questo link per scaricare il modulo di preiscrizione (documento Word) da spedire per email a info@corsidiinglese.it, o per fax a 035 3694091
FULL DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING CONTENTS
Preparation pre-departure
Participants should pre-register for the course by contacting the Lake School giving the dates of the session they are interested in attending.
On receipt of this, the school will send the participant confirmation of their pre-registration.
When the participant confirms their attendance on the course they will receive a pre-course questionnaire and a written task to complete, giving details about:
* present teaching position
* age of students
* number of years’ teaching
* teacher development workshops attended in their own country
* teacher training courses attended in the UK
* previous language learning experience and exams achieved
* current course books and teaching materials
* special interest areas and professional memberships
* additional academic responsibilities
Participants will also be required to state their preferences for the content of the course.
The participant will also receive their accommodation and UK travel details. If the participant has booked homestay accommodation, they will receive a profile of their homestay and location map.
On their first day of the course, participants receive:
* the proposed course outline
* a self-evaluation questionniare
* biodata of course tutors
* inclusive and optional social activity programmes
* a map of Oxford and the school
* information on bookshops, libraries and publishers in Oxford
* venues for informal networking
Orientation on the first day of the course
The Course Director will outline the proposed course and ask for comments from the group. The course sessions will be modified if possible. A visit to a local school and class observations will be offered (dates and times permitting) in addition to the scheduled course sessions. Participants will be interviewed by the Course Director. Participants will be asked to complete networking tasks and to familiarize themselves with the book displays, journal collection and the internet, C.A.L.L. and self-study facilities.
Objectives The course objectives are to improve and extend the teaching techniques (and language ability) of teachers of English as a foreign language at young adult and adult level.
Outcomes
Teachers will have a wide range of practical teaching techniques to enable them to make their classes more effective and enjoyable. In particular, teachers will be able to:
* motivate and encourage their students to learn more effectively
* manage mixed ability and/or large classes
* use different teaching strategies to accommodate different learning styles
* adapt coursebook materials to personalize students’ language learning
* integrate authentic resources and new technologies into their teaching
* update their students on British culture and lifestyle
* create their own teaching resources
and specifically:
* use a variety or creative techniques with images, spoken and written texts from online and offline resources
* integrate the teaching of reading, writing, listening and speaking skills
* create activities to make grammar practice more meaningful
* create activities to make vocabulary learning more memorable
* integrate the teaching of pronunciation
* use a range of language recycling and error correction techniques
In addition, teachers will have:
*a portfolio of teaching materials including
o a CD giving aims and rubrics for each classroom activity or teaching technique
o a short bibliography for each session, including relevant website addresses
o photocopiable worksheets and authentic resources
* increased confidence in their own linguistic ability
* a network of new contacts in English language teaching
Methodology In each methodology session the tutor will facilitate an awareness raising activity, followed by a discussion in which participants discuss and compare their teaching experience of the subject. The tutor will present various practical and creative teaching techniques for young adult and adult learners based on a range of teaching methodologies and recent research into English as a foreign language acquisition.
Teachers will try out these techniques and, in feedback, discuss their appropriacy (with any necessary adaptation) to their own teaching situations. In particular, the tutor will present strategies for encouraging communication, motivating students, managing large and/or mixed ability classes effectively, error correction and follow-up activities.
In each language improvement session, the tutor will demonstrate, through loop input, how teachers can improve and update their students’ grammar, lexis and pronunciation.
In all sessions the tutor will indicate recently published elt materials for further reading and/or classroom activities, also online and offline resources for further research and/or cultural background.
Follow-up All participants will be required to fill in a course evaluation questionnaire. Internet access will also be provided so that participants can in-put their feedback directly to the European Commission.
All participants will receive a contact list of their course tutors (including email addresses) and course colleagues. On most courses this will also include details of other contacts made during that particular course, such as editors, headteachers, publishers and guest tutors.
Participants will be invited to join the Lake School of English wiki for teachers of English. The course director (with course attendees) will arrange an initial online self-evaluation task. Further online tasks will take place as required. On the wiki, teachers will also be invited to create and edit pages. Those participants without Internet access will be invited to correspond by letter if they wish.
Grundtvig database course information page:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=3745
SECONDARY TEACHERS
Target: teachers in secondary schools
Course length: 2 weeks
Lessons: 30 lessons a week - 45 minutes per lesson
Course dates and fees 2009
> 19/01/2009 - 30/01/2009
> 20/04/2009 - 01/05/2009
> 01/06/2009 - 12/06/2009
> 06/07/2009 - 17/07/2009
>20/07/2009 - 31/07/2009
> 03/08/2009 - 14/08/2009
> 17/08/2009 - 28/08/2009
> 16/11/2009 - 27/11/2009
Price
per calcolare il prezzo in Euro, dividi il prezzo in Sterline per 0,835 — tasso di cambio aggiornato al 21/11/2008.
Course £GB 555
Accommodation and meals (host family, single room, half board) £GB 275
Cancelation fee £GB 300
Fare la pre'iscrizione ore usando questo link per scaricare il modulo di preiscrizione (documento Word) da spedire per email a info@corsidiinglese.it, o per fax a 035 3694091
FULL DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING CONTENTS
Preparation pre-departure
Participants should pre-register for the course by contacting the Lake School giving the dates of the session they are interested in attending.
On receipt of this, the school will send the participant confirmation of their pre-registration.
When the participant confirms their attendance on the course they will receive a pre-course questionnaire and a written task to complete, giving details about:
* present teaching position
* age of students
* number of years’ teaching
* teacher development workshops attended in their own country
* teacher training courses attended in the UK
* previous language learning experience and exams achieved
* current course books and teaching materials
* special interest areas and professional memberships
* additional academic responsibilities
Participants will also be required to state their preferences for the content of the course.
The participant will also receive their accommodation and UK travel details. If the participant has booked homestay accommodation, they will receive a profile of their homestay and location map.
On their first day of the course, participants receive:
* the proposed course outline
* a self-evaluation questionniare
* biodata of course tutors
* inclusive and optional social activity programmes
* a map of Oxford and the school
* information on bookshops, libraries and publishers in Oxford
* venues for informal networking
Orientation on the first day of the course
The Course Director will outline the proposed course and ask for comments from the group. The course sessions will be modified if possible. A visit to a local school and class observations will be offered (dates and times permitting) in addition to the scheduled course sessions. Participants will be interviewed by the Course Director. Participants will be asked to complete networking tasks and to familiarize themselves with the book displays, journal collection and the internet, C.A.L.L. and self-study facilities.
Objectives The course objectives are to improve and extend the teaching techniques (and language ability) of teachers of English as a foreign language at young adult and adult level.
Outcomes
Teachers will have a wide range of practical teaching techniques to enable them to make their classes more effective and enjoyable. In particular, teachers will be able to:
* motivate and encourage their students to learn more effectively
* manage mixed ability and/or large classes
* use different teaching strategies to accommodate different learning styles
* adapt coursebook materials to personalize students’ language learning
* integrate authentic resources and new technologies into their teaching
* update their students on British culture and lifestyle
* create their own teaching resources
and specifically:
* use a variety or creative techniques with images, spoken and written texts from online and offline resources
* integrate the teaching of reading, writing, listening and speaking skills
* create activities to make grammar practice more meaningful
* create activities to make vocabulary learning more memorable
* integrate the teaching of pronunciation
* use a range of language recycling and error correction techniques
In addition, teachers will have:
*a portfolio of teaching materials including
o a CD giving aims and rubrics for each classroom activity or teaching technique
o a short bibliography for each session, including relevant website addresses
o photocopiable worksheets and authentic resources
* increased confidence in their own linguistic ability
* a network of new contacts in English language teaching
Methodology In each methodology session the tutor will facilitate an awareness raising activity, followed by a discussion in which participants discuss and compare their teaching experience of the subject. The tutor will present various practical and creative teaching techniques for young adult and adult learners based on a range of teaching methodologies and recent research into English as a foreign language acquisition.
Teachers will try out these techniques and, in feedback, discuss their appropriacy (with any necessary adaptation) to their own teaching situations. In particular, the tutor will present strategies for encouraging communication, motivating students, managing large and/or mixed ability classes effectively, error correction and follow-up activities.
In each language improvement session, the tutor will demonstrate, through loop input, how teachers can improve and update their students’ grammar, lexis and pronunciation.
In all sessions the tutor will indicate recently published elt materials for further reading and/or classroom activities, also online and offline resources for further research and/or cultural background.
Follow-up All participants will be required to fill in a course evaluation questionnaire. Internet access will also be provided so that participants can in-put their feedback directly to the European Commission.
All participants will receive a contact list of their course tutors (including email addresses) and course colleagues. On most courses this will also include details of other contacts made during that particular course, such as editors, headteachers, publishers and guest tutors.
Participants will be invited to join the Lake School of English wiki for teachers of English. The course director (with course attendees) will arrange an initial online self-evaluation task. Further online tasks will take place as required. On the wiki, teachers will also be invited to create and edit pages. Those participants without Internet access will be invited to correspond by letter if they wish.
Grundtvig database course information page:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=3745
Oxford modulo di pre-iscrizione
Presentazione: Lake School of English
Altri corsi Comenius in:
Irlanda
Cork
Inghilterra
Brighton
Scarborough
Nottingham
Canterbury con Pilgrims
NB Pilgrims is possibly the leading provider of courses for teachers and is famed worldwide for the quality of its trainers and course content. The courses are recognised by INDIRE in Italy (and the 30 other countries participating in Comenius 2.2) but are not on the Grundtvig database. Funding will only be given if the Pilgrims course does not have an equivalent on the database, in other words if it other than a standard language and / or methodology course.
