Online CPD, TEFL Preparatory Courses
If you are a working language educator, you will have limited time to spend on your own professional development. Traditional CPD courses and events often do not have lasting effects, and training stops at the end of the course.
Language Point online CPD courses are designed to fit around your regular teaching load, and include live input from course trainers, advising you on how you can apply what you learn in your classroom as you study.
Courses include approximately 30 hours of guided learning, to be completed in a month. During this time, you will develop your knowledge of how to plan, deliver and improve what you do in your classroom, with the specific groups of learners you work with.
Course Options
Choose from any of the two course options: (1) How to teach tenses and (2) Approaches and methods in TESOL.
1. How to Teach Tenses
This course guides teachers through every English tense, from context to meaning and form using timelines and teaching ideas. Each video includes ideas for the classroom and reflective development tasks for teachers, live tutorials and e-moderation by course trainers.
Price: 310 USD (or 250 GBP)
2. Approaches & Methods in TESOL
This course introduces ESL teachers and language educators to student-centerd, communicative approaches and methods in TESOL. Each video includes ideas for the classroom and development tasks for teachers, live tutorials and e-moderation by course trainers.
Price: 310 USD (or 250 GBP)
We encourage participant teachers to stay in touch after the course ends, and keep sharing good ideas for their classrooms in regular meetups and group chats. This is one way that our courses lead to truly sustainable, long-term teacher development
1. How to Teach Tenses
25 Guided Learning Hours
This course explores the concepts, forms and functions behind every tense of English, and looks at how to present and practice these important structures with your students.
Course content:
- Course introduction
- Time, tense and aspect
- Timelines for presentation of tenses
- Teaching the present simple
- Teaching the past simple
- Teaching the present continuous
- Teaching the past continuous
- Teaching future forms
- Teaching the present perfect simple
- Teaching the past perfect simple
- Teaching the present perfect continuous
- Teaching the past perfect continuous
- Teaching mixed narrative tenses
Price: 310 USD (or 250 GBP)
2. Approaches & methods in TESOL
30 Guided Learning Hours
This course explores the concepts, forms and functions behind every tense of English, and looks at how to present and practice these important structures with your students.
Course content:
- Course introduction
- TESOL approaches and methods
- Defining lesson aims and outcomes
- Principles of lesson staging
- Top-down and bottom-up approaches
- Designing language practice tasks
- Task-based planning and teaching
- Principles of materials design
- Contextualising language effectively
- Presenting new language
- Checking language concepts
- Giving and checking task instructions
- Monitoring and error correction
- Taking effective post-task feedback
- Confiring achievement of lesson aims
Price: 310 USD (or 250 GBP)