TEFL International In-Service Teacher Training

TEFL International In-Service Teacher Training - Sample TINSET Programs

Sample Inservice Programs

“I reviewed a unique international qualification that combines the newest teaching methodologies. It showed us excellent professional training qualifications as we greatly improved our listening, speaking, reading and writing skills while developing our teaching skills. I would be happy to recommend TEFL International training courses to in-service primary and middle school teaches”.

Ms. Canaan Gu
(English Supervisor for Xiangzhou Teaching and Research Training Center, Chinese government)

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27 top teaches were chosen from 27 different school districts in Guangdong Province, China to attend a TEFL International four-week Inservice Program. Each teacher then returned to their school to share and help their colleagues upgrade. The program was effective enough to get more interest from national Chinese officials and the Chinese media and TEFL International was invited to return to assist more teachers the following year.

In-Service TESOL Schedule for Chinese Government, Zhuhai, P.R.C.
March 20 – 24, 2006 (plus 3 week practicum) / 180 hour program

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Session 1 Teaching Methods Techniques (09.00 - 10.20)	Intro and Training Targets to Meet Objectives	New Approaches to Language Learning	Effective Techniques in Classroom Management with Large Classes	Appropriate Teacher Language to Aid Learning Goals	Determining Individual Student Learning Styles and Capitalizing on it in Planning
Coffee Break 15.20 - 15.40
Session 2 Teaching the Four Skills (10.40 – 12.00)	Reading Skills New Techniques & Activities	Speaking Skills Fluency : Communicative Language Teaching / Activities	Writing Skills New Methods & Activities	Listening Skills New Techniques & Activities	Speaking Skills Accuracy Effective ways to Error Analysis & Techniques in Correction
Coffee Break 15.20 - 15.40
Session 3 Using your Resources (14.00 – 15.20)	Theatre Techniques and Drama that Motivate and meet Lesson objectives	Chants ,and Songs for Achieving new Lesson Aims	Using Materials interactively with Learners (DVD, visuals, boards)	The Best Games, Activities & Projects to Motivate YLs	Adapting / Using Course Books to maximize quick and efficient planning
Coffee Break 15.20 - 15.40
Session 4 Language Structure (15.40 – 17.00)	TEFL International Methods in successful Teaching	TEFL International Methods in successful Teaching	Upgrade Non-Native Phonological Weaknesses	Upgrade Non-Native Grammatical Weaknesses	Teaching Practice Upgrades


Assumption College Catholic School, (Siracha, Thailand )	Ministry of Further Education (Zhuhai, China)

The following are a summary of the possible teaching training sessions available.
Each session is approximately 90 minutes, with maximum four sessions per day.

Session ID #	Input Title	Session Summary	Recommended for
01	Help with the Helping Verbs	Introduction and fun ways to use and teach auxiliary verbs.	New Teachers
02	Teaching Business English	Brilliant techniques and activities to be great Business English teaching.	Experienced Teachers
03	Managing Classroom Difficulties	The five major areas of classroom management and techniques for successfully managing them.	New & Experienced Teachers
04	The Principles behind CLT Theory	Basic principles & different methods for Communicative Language Teaching.	Experienced Teachers
05	The Best of Communicative Activities	How to develop great activities to get your students talking with lots of ideas.	New & Experienced Teachers
06	If Conditionals were taught..	The concept behind understanding and teaching conditionals.	New Teachers
07	Understanding and Teaching Connected Speech	The 6 key elements behind this difficult phonological aspect and how to get your students talking like a native speaker.	Experienced Teachers
08	Articulating Consonant sounds like a Native Speaker	A full understanding of English consonants and how to get your learners articulating them.	New & Experienced Teachers
09	Designing your Course	A how-to-do session on syllabus and course design.	Experienced Teachers
10	Using Cuisenaire Rods	Using this resource for everything from pronunciation to getting students talking.	Experienced Teachers
11	The Secrets of Dictation	Techniques and resources in using dictation for any skill or linguistic work ...with no resources needed!	Experienced Teachers
12	Learner Levels and their Needs	A session that shows differences between levels in Europe and Asia, and the needs teachers should meet for those specific levels.	New Teachers
13	Drama and Theatre Techniques as an Aid to Successful Learning	Principles behind drama that can be used to motivate and get learners talking, as well as great activities.	New & Experienced Teachers
14	Error Analysis & Correction	A how-to session on quickly analyzing learner errors and the best ways to kick fossilized and new errors.	New & Experienced Teachers
15	Evaluating and Adapting Course Books	Discovering which books are best for your learners and maximizing their use.	New & Experienced Teachers
16	Future Tenses in my Future Classes.	The principles and differences between the 9 future tenses and activities to teach them.	New & Experienced Teachers
17	A History of TESOL Methodology	A look at the major influences on methodologies and demonstrations of how they work.	New & Experienced Teachers
18	The Ups and Downs of Intonation	The key aspects, techniques and activities and building a syllabus for this difficult phonological aspect.	New & Experienced Teachers
19	Introducing … ughh… Grammar	Why grammar is needed and how to overcome your fears of it.	New Teachers
20	Motivating Learners with Language Games & Projects	The different types of games and projects available for learners and how to choose what works best.	New & Experienced Teachers
21	Language Presentation	The different ways to present the four linguistic systems and demonstrations that show you how to maximize the learning from your presentations.	New & Experienced Teachers
22	Catering for the Learner: Learning Styles	The three main theories behind learning styles, how to recognize your learners' styles and activities to capitalize on the learning.	Experienced Teachers
23	How to Plan the Perfect Lessons	An overview of different lesson plans and how to prepare and plan so that your class goes off at it's best.	New & Experienced Teachers
24	Leaning Methodology through Lessons in a Foreign Language	Demonstration lessons of the most popular methods - in a language you don't know.	New & Experienced Teachers
25	Teaching Language with the Lexical Approach	What’s behind Lewis’ innovative lexical approach and how you can use it to teach your own learners.	Experienced Teachers
26	Victory with your Vocabulary: Maximizing Lexical Teaching	The most popular techniques in presenting and revising vocabulary that ensures learners retain and use what they are learning, and how to handle non-planned lexis.	New & Experienced Teachers
27	They Hate working on Listening Skills!	A how-to session to help your learners on their aural comprehension with lots of techniques and activities to use.	New & Experienced Teachers
28	The Possibilities Using Modal Verbs	What’s in a modal and how best to teach them.	New Teachers
29	Mono vs. Multilingual	The advantages and disadvantages of teaching ESL and EFL, and how to sue aspects of one to bring out better classes of the other.	New & Experienced Teachers
30	Motivating Learners to the Maximum!	A thorough look at the reasons why learners aren’t motivated, and innovative techniques to keep them interested and active throughout the lesson and semester.	New & Experienced Teachers
31	Get in Tune with Music & Learning	Chants, songs and music – why and how to use in the language classroom – with great ideas to use music for tasks you’ve never thought of!	New & Experienced Teachers
32	Parts of Speech	An introduction to the core terms and elements of grammar and how awareness makes you a great language teacher.	New Teachers
33	Perfecting your Knowledge of Perfect Tenses	An excellent overview of the perfect aspect, tenses, how to present them and activities that maximize learning them.	New & Experienced Teachers
34	Getting it with Phrasal Verbs	An excellent overview of everything you wanted to know about this difficult and common linguistic aspect, a long with great techniques and activities.	New & Experienced Teachers
35	Present Tenses	An introduction to the English Tense system, what it entails and al the present tenses.	New Teachers
36	Reading Between the Lines	What reading skills are all about for illiterate to proficiency learners, and how to make the most out of reading lessons or stages...	New & Experienced Teachers
37	Speaking and Your Students	A very informative session on planning speaking classes (with a demonstration), as well as how to get learners talking more with lots of great activities and techniques.	New & Experienced Teachers
38	Syntax & Sentences	An introduction to sentence elements, a look at compound sentence formation and the major difficulties learners have with syntax.	New & Experienced Teachers
39	Talking like a Language Teacher	One thing that makes a great teacher is clarity and using class time for student talking time. This session looks at the major problems teachers have with their language in class, how to overcome them, the best way to give instructions as well as non-verbal language.	New & Experienced Teachers
40	Teaching Practice	In consolation with the trainer, arrangements are made for teachers to be observed and gain valuable feedback on specific areas for improvement by trainers that have experience in many other cultures.	New & Experienced Teachers
41	The Teaching Aids Toy Box Session	This session takes a good look at the many teacher resources available and how to make great use of them. Includes many techniques and activities.	New & Experienced Teachers
42	Passing the Testing	This informative session covers the types of standardized tests that exist, provides new ways to test learners and how best to set up and execute tests.	New & Experienced Teachers
43	Video Variety	This class looks at the rationale for using video, how to use and loads of activities on new ways to use video in your classes. Includes demonstrations.	New & Experienced Teachers
44	Visuals	Many teachers use visuals, boards or OHPs in their classes. But we bet you didn’t know there were so many applications and benefits from these aids?	New & Experienced Teachers
45	Pronunciation	A good solid overview and introduction to English phonology in general, with a concentration on English vowel sounds and getting students around them.	New & Experienced Teachers
46	Word / Sentence Stress	These features of suprasegmentals are often confusing and difficult for both learners and teachers alike. This session will take you through the phonology and show you the best ways to getting students proficient in managing them.	New & Experienced Teachers
47	Write it up!	One of our most popular inputs takes you through the best ways to motivate students to keep writing, as well as great techniques and activities (as well as demonstrations) to make sure you produce the very best writing classes.	New & Experienced Teachers
48	The TEFL Int'l Basic Modal	TEFL International’s world-famous methodology – a great way to get large classes of very low levels talking and picking up huge chunks of language.	New & Experienced Teachers
49	Put it in Context for them!	Any good language teacher knows the extreme importance of context building in any linguistic or skills work. This session looks at the many different ways to build context and what works best - either for beginners consolidating the sounds with the context, or more advanced learners getting the most language out of contextual work.	New & Experienced Teachers
50	Task-Based Learning	An excellent look at this modern method and why it is so popular and successful. With activity and lesson demonstrations, as well as guidance on building your own TBL Classes.	New & Experienced Teachers
51	Immersed in Content-Based Teaching	For anyone teaching other subjects through English, this is a definite need. A good look at how CBL differs from other communicative methods, how learners of all ages can maximize their integrative learning with superb ideas, activities and hints on planning.	New & Experienced Teachers
52	Have a Totally Physical Response to this class	TPR isn’t just for kids! A wonderful overview of this popular method, the best techniques, activities and lessons for doing TPR and ways to apply it to your older learners as well so they retain and enjoy your classes.	New & Experienced Teachers
53	Cross-Cultural Language Teaching	Introducing cross-cultural techniques into your everyday classroom not only motivates learners, but helps them learn faster. See why here!	New & Experienced Teachers
54	CALL, Multimedia & the Internet	Modern technology in the classroom. Get a hold on the latest developments, how you can use these resources to the maximum benefit for your learners. Lots of resources and ideas in this session.	New & Experienced Teachers
55	Passing those Exam Classes	FCE, CAE, TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS – find out about standardized exams, and how to build fun and motivating lessons that get your learners through the exams.	New & Experienced Teachers
56	English for Specific Purposes	A good look at the special needs and requirements of teaching legal, technical, medical or hospitality English, great linguistically-integrated lessons and activities, and how to get students coming back for more.	New & Experienced Teachers
57	Teaching Young Learners	This very popular session takes all the experience TEFL International has learned over the last ten years in training young learner teachers from all over the world. How to handle them, plan for and motivate them without tearing your hair out. Plenty of great techniques, advice and activities, the session also covers secondary students and very young learners as well.	New & Experienced Teachers