Course Program:  12 Modules, of 10 hours each (five 2-hour lessons)

 

Teaching Reading   10   hours

 Tips on Reading Comprehension

 Skimming

 Scanning

 Readability -- Cloze test

 Common Texts --  Headway

 

Teaching Writing   10

 Pre-writing

Paragraph structure

Proofreading

Academic writing

 Target audience

 

Teaching Grammar   10

 Syntax

Conditional Sentences

 Phrasal verbs

 PPP model

 Inductive and Deductive approaches

 

Teaching Speaking/listening  10

 

 Tips on teaching speaking

Tips on teaching listening

Recording and listening to yourself

Pronunciation -final consonants

 American/British/Australian accents

 

Teaching TOEFL preparation  10

 About TOEFL

Reading comprehension

 Listening

 Grammar

 Writing

 

Teaching IELTS/Duolingo   10

 About IELTS

 Differences between IELTS and TOEFL

 Practice tests

 About Duolingo

 Differences and practice

 

 

 

 

Teaching idioms   10

 Activities for teaching idioms

 Aphorisms

Sports idioms

 Bible idioms

 Old English (Shakespeare)

 

Slideshow presentation  10

 Structure your presentation

Speaking to your slides

 Legibility

Interactive tricks

 Adding photos and videos

 

Teaching online   10

 Types of online teaching

 Styles of online teaching

 Strategies for online teachers.

 Online assessment

 Interactive lessons

 

Using songs and poems  10

 

 Use songs that the students know

 Nursery Rhymes

 Children’s TV songs

 Famous lines from poetry

 Xmas carols

 

Lesson Plans    10

 Parts of the Lesson Plan

SMART objectives

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy

Interactive Lessons

Pre-packaged Lesson Plans online

Plan several lessons ahead

 

Assessment    10

 What skills are you trying to measure?

Grading on a curve

 Weighted averages

 Assessment as a learning experience

 Assessing written work

 

 

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