Program Details

TEACHING MODULES

TEFL – Teaching English

Language Acquisition

  •       Second Language Acquisition
  •       Acquisition Vs Learning

EFL teaching

  •       Methodologies and Approaches

Learners

  •       Language Learners and their levels

The Study of English Grammar

  •       The structures
  •       Contextualizing Grammar

Phonology

  •        Segmental
  •        Supra-segmental

Teaching Vocabulary

Teaching Techniques (Language Skills)

Part I

  •        Teaching speaking
  •        Teaching Listening
  •        Teaching reading
  •        Teaching writing

Part II

  •        Context and Language Modeling
  •        Communicative ways

Classroom Management

  •        The components

Disaster Management

  •        Mixed and large groups

Lesson Planning

  •        Guidelines
  •        Format
  •        Samples

Need Based language Teaching

  •        EAP
  •        ESP
  •        Business Communication

Teaching Young Learners basics

  •        Difference between Adults and YL
  •        Different orientation
  •        Songs, Rhymes, Stories and games

Text books and Materials

  •        Evaluating Text books
  •        Types and use of Materials

Teaching Young Learners

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

The Business English – Professional Skills

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

Train the Trainer / Teaching corporates

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

Education Management

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

Special Education

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