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1: Describing Young Learners |
This session will focus on age characteristics and natural abilities children possess as language learners. This session will also consider students’ learning styles and how we can use this to help them learn more effectively. |
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2: Communication strategies |
This session looks at the ways how to develop communication strategies together with different types of activities that can help involve learners into language learning. |
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3: Cognitive strategies |
This session looks at the ways how to develop communication strategies together with different types of activities that can help involve learners into language learning. |
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4: Learning strategies |
This session focuses on the ways of developing children’s learning strategies through language learning. |
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5: Planning young learner lessons |
This session focuses on key planning components, such as learning outcomes, personal teaching aims, procedure, stage aims, etc. |
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6: Using course- books and other resources |
This session makes emphasis on the ways how to adapt course-books and supplementary materials in order to support and challenge children’s learning. |
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7: Scaffolding |
The aim of this session is to raise awareness about the importance of providing suitable types of scaffolding for language learning and to examine the nature and ways of the support. |
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8: Practice activities |
This session focuses on using activities to consolidate children’s language learning. |
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9: Managing young learners in class |
This session covers a range of areas a teacher manages in a class, including getting and keeping children’s attention, establishing routines, checking understanding, etc. |
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10: My SMART lesson |
The participants are involved into planning practice after observing a part of a lesson. |
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11: Micro-teaching: presentations & feedback |
The participants present the activity to other colleagues in the group, demonstrating the professional skills and basic principles in teaching young learners. |
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12: TKTYL Self- check (optional) |
It provides participants with the opportunity to experience the standard task-types, to see how well they can do the test and to receive feedback on areas of strength and weakness. |