Certificate in Practical Ideas for the Adult ESL/EFL Classroom Online Course

Teach Adult ESL/EFL with range of learning tools and techniques

We'll look at the key role that planning plays, because when your students know what to expect, they'll respond positively—and you'll teach with more confidence. You'll gather a wealth of principles for how to choose truly effective activities for such skills as listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and pronunciation. Along the way, you'll pick up practical ways to incorporate both traditional and alternative forms of assessment into your classroom teaching. And finally, we'll spend some time talking about how you can become a more reflective teacher and continue to grow both professionally and personally.

By the end of this Certificate in Practical Ideas for the Adult ESL/EFL Classroom Online Course, you'll be teaching ESL in a way that helps your students move skillfully from the classroom to the real world!

Course materials are developed by Heinle I Cengage Learning, a global leader in ESL/EFL materials. Course content is approved by the TESOL Professional Development Committee so students who successfully complete this course receive a TESOL Certificate of Completion.

Course Fast Facts:

• Only 6 weeks to complete this course
  
• Approximately only 2 to 4 hours per week of study is required
• This course is delivered 100% on-line and is accessible 24/7 from any computer or smartphone
• Instructors lead each course and you will be able to interact with them and ask questions
• You can study from home or at work at your own pace in your own time
• You can download printer friendly course material or save for viewing off line
• You will be awarded a certificate at completion of this course

How to study online course?

Upon enrolment an automated welcome email will be sent to you (please check your junk email inbox if not received as this is an automated email), in order for you to access your online course, which is Available 24/7 on any computer or smart mobile device. New courses start every month to ensure that we have the correct ratio of students to tutors available, please ensure you select a starting date when you go through our shopping cart, at checkout. The course is easy to follow and understand.

Course Structure

Through well-crafted lessons, expert online instruction and interaction with your tutor, participants in these courses gain valuable knowledge at their convenience. They have the flexibility to study at their own pace combined with enough structure and support to complete the course. And they can access the classroom 24/7 from anywhere with an Internet connection.

New sessions of each course run every month. They last six weeks, with two new lessons being released weekly (for a total of 12). The courses are entirely Web-based with comprehensive lessons, quizzes, and assignments. A dedicated professional instructor facilitates every course; pacing learners, answering questions, giving feedback, and facilitating discussions.

Recognition & Accreditation

All students who complete the course receive a certificate of completion with a passing score (for the online assessment) and will be issued a certificate via email.

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Personalizing Your Instruction

One thing I know for sure: No two classes are the same! Haven't you found this to be true in your teaching experience? Every class has unique challenges, which is why it's a good thing that we have so many approaches and methods we can use with English language teaching (ELT). In today's lesson, you'll get an overview of the variety of programs, approaches, and methods available, as well as see how you can personalize your instruction for every class you teach. You'll also learn about the traits that all successful teachers share and how you can add them to your own personal approach.

Motivation and Success

Today we're going to look at how we can tap into what motivates our students so we can set them up for success. After all, effective teaching is all about our students' success, right? In this lesson, then, we'll begin by exploring how you can create a motivating classroom environment. Next, we'll look at how you can learn about your students' different learning styles and needs so you can shape activities that click with all of them. Finally, we'll delve into the most motivating form of instruction: student-centered teaching.

Short and Long Term Planning

When I first started teaching, I assumed that, because I'm a native English speaker, teaching English would be easy. It shouldn't take too much preparation or experience, right? Wrong! Blindly following whatever path the textbook took, I soon discovered that I really had no idea if my students were learning. I'd like to help you avoid what I experienced, which is why this entire lesson is devoted to planning. To help you get started, think about questions like these: What are your objectives for the course you're teaching? What did you accomplish yesterday in class? What do you hope to accomplish today? Believe me, when your students know what to expect, they'll respond positively—and you'll teach with more confidence.

How to Choose Activities

Have you ever planned activities you thought would be fun, only to have your perplexed students wonder what on earth you're doing? We've all been there. You see, activities in themselves don't make a good ESL/EFL class. Many factors need to shape the activities you choose in order to be successful. So in this lesson, you'll discover how to take your students' level into consideration, how to integrate skills as well as balance fluency and accuracy in your activities, and when and how to correct errors.

Listening Activities

You've probably heard how important it is to have authentic listening tasks in the ESL/EFL classroom—tasks that allow students to learn as native speakers do, with natural repetition, unplanned background noises, and fast and slow speech. But the truth is, we really don't have a lot of ways to do this. There are just too many different types of listening. So, what can we do to help our students become better and more confident listeners in English? We can teach listening strategies. Today you'll learn such strategies as focused listening, listening for comprehension, making predictions, and guessing at the meaning of unfamiliar words using the context.

Speaking Activities

Speaking is an essential part of any ESL/EFL classroom. It's also a creative process—much more than merely repeating what someone else says or reading aloud something written in a book. In this lesson, you'll explore ways to get your students to the point of creative expression. This will include providing them with vocabulary, structures, and strategies. At the lower levels especially, this equipping comes through drills and dialogues. But it certainly doesn't stop there! You'll also see how to promote conversation and freer communication by incorporating cooperative learning and problem-solving activities, which will foster fluency and encourage participation.

Reading Activities

Reading is such a gift, isn't it? It can open a new world of ideas to our students and hopefully help them become lifelong learners. Our question as teachers, though, is how do we go about teaching reading? Do we take a bottom-up approach, starting with the small parts of the language? Or do we take a top-down approach, where we start with the context? Or can we somehow do both? Today we'll explore how to design reading tasks that will be appropriate for your students' levels and help them become more independent learners.

Writing Activities

Of all the skills, writing is the most complex and unique. Personally, I think it can be a lot of fun for both teachers and students—if we approach it in a positive way. So in this lesson, you'll look into different approaches you can use to teach writing. You'll also discover how to design activities that will prepare your students to write (and ease their anxiety!), support them while they're writing, and help them polish their work when they're done. When you finish today's lesson, you'll have a myriad of good ideas help your students become more effective and confident writers in English.

Grammar and Pronunciation Activities

Today you're going to get a better sense of how to approach teaching grammar and pronunciation. Grammar and pronunciation are like two vital parts of a car—grammar is like the engine, and pronunciation is like the body. Just as we need both the engine and the body to drive safely to our destination, so our students need both grammar and pronunciation to get their messages to arrive clearly. So you'll discover the importance of context, and you'll get a variety of ideas for meaningful activities.

Application Activities

Our goal, as language teachers, is to help our students transfer the language and skills they learn in the classroom to the real world. How can we help them be able to improvise, both in writing and speech, in new and unfamiliar environments? By building bridges between the classroom and their real-world experiences. So in today's lesson, you'll learn about the vital role that application activities play. And you'll see that by incorporating them into your teaching, you'll build your students' confidence and independence.

Assessment Activities

When you hear the word assessment, what comes to mind? Placement tests and standardized exams? Final letter grades? In this lesson, you'll soon see that there's a lot more to assessment than just these! You'll discover that you can use a variety of tools to track your students' ongoing progress, give them encouragement, correct their course when they need that, and even see where you might need to adjust your teaching to better meet their needs. Assessment is an essential way to keep your students on the path to success!

Reflective Teaching

In our final lesson, you'll discover how you can become a more reflective teacher and what the many benefits of that are. You'll get the chance to really explore what your own personal teaching philosophy is. And you'll learn ways to evaluate your performance—for the sake of your own growth—and get some ideas for making the changes you want to make. The whole purpose of reflecting is to see how you're doing, where you could be more effective, and how you could better help your students succeed.

Upon course completion, students will receive a certificate that will serve as proof of their study in this field.

Entry requirements

Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills.

Minimum education

Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course.

Computer requirements

Students will need access to a computer and the internet.

Minimum specifications for the computer are:

Windows:

Microsoft Windows XP, or later
MAC/iOS

OSX/iOS 6 or later
All systems

Internet bandwidth of 1Mb or faster
Flash player or a browser with HTML5 video capabilities(Currently Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
Students will also need access the following applications:

Adobe Acrobat Reader

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included