English Language Teachers - Erasmus +

Course details

Our courses are intended for English language teachers or teachers of other subjects who wish to refresh and expand their language skills and/or analyse, discuss and practise different teaching approaches and methods. The courses provide opportunities for discussion and the sharing of ideas with colleagues from different European countries. Our sessions are practical rather than theoretical and involve a variety of workshop and communicative formats.

We take a dynamic approach to both the methodology components and the language development components of our courses. We deliver our sessions through an eclectic mix of active lesson type classes and workshops. Our aim being that the participants can take everything they do in the sessions and apply it to their own learners and classrooms. We also focus on the use of grammar and vocabulary in context through a variety of ways, such as pair work, group work, class activities etc. We provide all the course material. The participants should have a vast supply of new material taken from various ELT books, authentic material and their colleagues when returning home

Our aims at CES are:

• To provide a learning environment that respects and values participants’ experience as teachers.
• To raise awareness of participants’ preferred teaching methods and styles through discussions and workshops.
• To share ideas and activities aimed at making our classrooms more interactive, communicative, creative and autonomous.
• To stimulate discussion, challenge ideas and provide an environment that allows teachers the time and space to think about their own professional development
• To broaden understanding of the link between language and culture
• To provide opportunities for participants to improve their own language skills.

Our E-learning Platform

As a course participant you will be able to partake in our guided e-learning system from the time you have booked the course until three months after course completion. Our guided e-learning system complements the teaching and learning experience. You will have access to it as a student and/or as a teacher so that you can benefit from it for your own language development and also see it from the teacher’s point of view and how something like this might benefit your learners at home. Our e-learning platform also feeds into Europass as our one-to-one tutorials are centred on the CEFR framework of reference.

Pre Course Preparation

All potential participants will be sent a needs analysis questionnaire before the course begins. This will help us in determining the individual needs of each participant. Upon course registration participants will also be sent some pre course activities through our guided e-learning portal.