Program Details

Language learning and language acquisition

•        The Hypothesis
•        The Difference between learning and acquisition

How do children learn English

•        Practical approaches to teaching children
•        The levels
•        Language Development and context

Teaching Listening

•        The importance of listening in the classroom
•        Listening activities

Teaching Speaking

•        Speaking in the classroom
•        Student talk
•        Introducing language
•        Activities

Teaching Reading

•        Approaches to reading
•        Building confidence
•        Different Material

Teaching Writing

•        Pre writing tasks
•        Activities
•        Some more ideas
•        Assignment

How to handle mixed groups

•        Mixed groups
•        Helpful strategies
•        Group work
•        Assignment

Class Management

•        The teacher
•        The room
•        Rules
•        Working in groups
•        Self-Assignment – not to be submitted

Lesson Planning

•        The need to plan
•        Different ways of planning
•        The framework
•        When things go wrong
•        Assignment

Materials in the classroom

•        Things to make
•        Things to buy

Stories, games, songs, chants

•        How to use stories
•        Games – some ideas
•        The importance of songs and chants

Correction techniques

•        Look at error differently
•        Ways of error correction
•        Assignment

Evaluation techniques

•        The meaning
•        Purpose
•        Formative assessment
•        The continuous system

PHASE I - Introduction to Business English – features and components

•        The Learner
•        The teaching context
•        The trainer
•        The language
•        Communication techniques
•        Communicative Language teaching

PHASE II - Need Analysis

•        Need analysis - categories and modes
•        Decision Making
•        Communication needs
•        Business needs

PHASE III - Course Design

•        Setting objectives
•        Syllabus components
•        Designing
•        Implementing
•        Setting up the independent ongoing learning plan
•        Managing the logistics

PHASE IV - The Client Approach

•        Introduction - Adult, personal and professional
•        Present yourself professionally -differing "roles" for the teacher – e.g. coach, consultant facilitator
•        Methods of empowering learners

Mid term assignment

PHASE V - Feedback and Evaluation

•        Different types
•        Assessing the trainees

PHASE VI - Classroom Management

•        Creating rapport – sensitivity to needs
•        Modeling instructions
•        Creating interactive activity
•        Varying activities
•        Being a facilitator

PHASE VII - Teaching Business Speaking

•        Business communication related to socialization
•        Skill practice variants - the different methods

PHASE VIII - Teaching Business Writing

•        Technicalities of Business Writing
•        The basic business writing - types and approaches to training writing

End of the term assignment

Training and learning

•        Teaching beliefs and values and their potential impact on learning
•        Mentoring approaches and techniques
•        Learning styles - An overview and Different training contexts
•        Maintaining trainee and trainer motivation
•        Neuro Linguistic Programming

The Trainer

•        The trainer as a facilitator
•        Key characteristics of exceptional trainers
•        Understanding the mindset of an experienced trainer

Techniques

•        Build instant rapport with participants
•        Sequence criteria
•        Design multi-sensory sessions that will be effective and memorable
•        Ways to engage the audience
•        Imaginative ways to facilitate learning
•        Creative ways to start a training session
•        How to encourage ‘active’ listening
•        Learning how to pace the session right
•        Livening up your training session
•        Planning effective training sessions - The key ingredients
•        Reconstructing a “disastrous lesson”

The Group

•        Facilitate partner and group activities
•        Dealing with know-it-all’s and melting resistance
•        Strategies for building and maintaining healthy group dynamics
•        Co-operative Learning used as Classroom Coaching Tool

Need Analysis

•        Needs analysis and goal setting
•        Getting to know the expectations of the group

Feedback

•        What comprises effective feedback?
•        Giving advice and its negative consequences
•        Different approaches to spoken feedback
•        Giving and receiving feedback
•        Observation skills
•        Commentary and evaluation
•        Written feedback

Components of Educational Administration

•        School/ Education Planning
•        Budgeting
•        Sales and Marketing
•        Operation Management

Human relations in Educational Administration

•        Influence of Human Resource in Education Management
•        Recruitment
•        Training management
•        Appraisal and Evaluation

Educational Supervision

•        Function of Supervision
•        Roles of Supervision
•    Aspects of Supervision - administration (normative); education (formative) and support (restorative)

Decision Making in Educational Administration

•        Decision making in education leadership and management
  
  Video: When to take immediate decision and when to include others with reference to school situations.

Curriculum Issues in Administration

•        The scope of curriculum
•        Various approaches to Curriculum
•        The 21st century curriculum and methodology

Learning Disability:

•        Phase 1: Understanding Learning Disabilities
•        Phase 2: Identifying Students with LDs
•        Phase 3: Making sense of the IEPs
•        Phase 4: Understanding Service Locations
•        Phase 5: Learning the Right Teaching Strategies
•        Phase 6: Helping Students with Word Identification Problems
•        Phase 7: Helping Students with Reading Comprehension Problems
•        Phase 8: Helping Students with Written Expression Problems
•        Phase 9: Helping Students with Math Reasoning and Calculation Problems
•        Phase 10: Modifying Your Classroom
•        Phase 11: Managing Student Behavior
•        Phase 12: Linking Home and School

ADHD:

•        Phase 1: Understanding Students With ADHD
•        Phase 2: The Diagnostic Process
•        Phase 3: Are They Putting in the Effort?
•        Phase 4: ADHD and Brain Activation
•        Phase 5: ADHD and Activity Level
•        Phase 6: Attention and ADHD
•        Phase 7: The Emotional Impact of ADHD
•        Phase 8: Memory
•        Phase 9: Problem-Solving for Academic Performance
•        Phase 10: Classroom Beliefs and Rules
•        Phase 11: Preplanning and Facilitating an ADHD-Friendly Classroom
•        Phase 12: Student Self-Reliance

Autism:

•        Phase 1: Meet your Students with Autism
•        Phase 2: Understand the Common Characteristics of HFA/AS
•        Phase 3: Discover How Your Students Think
•        Phase 4: Nurture Students' Social Skills
•        Phase 5: Encourage Language Reciprocity
•        Phase 6: Work With Sensory Sensitivities
•        Phase 7: Nurture Special Interests
•        Phase 8: Encourage Homework Completion
•        Phase 9: Counter Runaway Emotions and Meltdowns
•        Phase 10: Redirect Violent Fixations
•        Phase 11: Foster Attentiveness
•        Phase 12: Plan for the Future