The
purpose of this course is to develop and enhance the educator’s
approach to teaching and learning. The program will focus on communicative
teaching styles and student-centred teaching methodologies. This course
is designed for individuals who are fairly new to the profession and who
want to bring the most effective approaches and methodologies into their
classrooms. The course will cover Teaching Styles/Methodologies and Learning
Styles, Time Management, Resources and Activities, Lesson Planning, Student
Evaluation and Feedback. Teachers will finish the course by preparing
and presenting a lesson plan. The Instructor and peers will provide feedback
about the lesson plan and demonstration of the lesson. (8 weeks,
4 hours per week).
Professional Workshops for educational
Professionals
Teacher
Training
The purpose of this
course is to develop and enhance the educator’s approach to teaching
and learning. The program will focus on communicative teaching and student-centred
teaching methodologies. The course is designed for teaching professionals
who want to refresh and refine their approaches and methodologies in the
classroom.
Day One: will focus on Teaching
Styles/Methodologies and Learning Styles
Day Two : will focus on Lesson
Plans
(2 days, 4 hours per day)
Student
Evaluation and Feedback
Teacher feedback is
instrumental to the student's learning process. This workshop will cover
the fundamentals in providing student feedback and error correction. We
will look at student errors as evidence that progress is being made. Analyzing
errors clarifies exactly where the students have progressed and helps teachers
to determine problematic areas, which will help teachers set future lessons.
Providing students with constructive feedback will build confidence, raise
students’ awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, and acknowledge
achievement while helping the student to become more accurate in the particular
skill area.
One
day Workshop (4 hours)
ENGLISH
FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS
This workshop is designed
for the English teacher who wants the opportunity to fine-tune his or her
English skills. While the teacher may know the rules of grammar, and have
been teaching for years, the aim of this session is to be a refresher in
the use of English as it is used today. Teachers will be given the chance
to increase both their fluency and their accuracy as they work through an
overview of the English language and address some of the common grammatical
trouble spots encountered by students. Some topics we will explore will
be the nature of Sri Lankan English, as well as its role in the classroom.
