Certified Teacher Training

Suitable for:

• Upper Primary
• Middle
• Secondary School Teachers

This training aims to familiarise teachers with effective and student-centred methods for developing their students’ speaking and writing skills.

By the end of the workshop, participants will have:

• Examined the differences between spoken and written language
• Explored various methods for developing their students’ oral fluency and speaking skills
• Learnt how to stage a writing lesson and develop their students’ writing skills
• Learnt how to stage a speaking lesson and develop their students’ sub-skills of spoken interaction as well as acquired techniques for correcting spoken and written errors.

This interactive 90-minute certified training is designed as a workshop and would engage participants in discussions and engaging activities.

Suitable for:

• Upper Primary
• Middle
• Secondary School Teachers

The training helps teachers learn the basic principles of developing the listening skill, and to apply these to the design of a skills-based lesson.

By the end of the workshop, participants would understand

• Different purposes and ways of listening
• How top-down and bottom-up factors influence comprehension

The key concepts covered are:

• Interactive and non-interactive listening
• Transactional listening
• Listening for pleasure
• Listening for gist
• Intensive listening
• pre-, while- and post-listening tasks

This interactive 90-minute training is designed as a workshop and would engage participants in discussions and engaging activities.

Suitable for:

• Upper Primary
• Middle
• Secondary School Teachers

The main focus of this training is to help teachers learn the basic principles of developing the reading skill and to apply these to the design of a skills-based lesson.

By the end of the workshop, participants would be

• Aware of different purposes and strategies of reading
• How comprehension is achieved in reading

The key concepts covered are:

• Reading for information
• Gist and pleasure
• Intensive reading
• Skimming and scanning
• Top-down versus bottom-up knowledge
• Linguistic and extralinguistic clues
• pre-, while- and post-reading tasks.

This interactive 90-minute training is designed as a workshop and would engage participants in discussions and engaging activities.

Suitable for:

• Primary
• Middle
• Secondary School Teachers

The training aims to help participants understand how English sounds are classified, described and represented.

By the end of the workshop, participants would

• Understand the difference between sounds and letters
• Be able to read and write phonemic transcription of consonant and vowel sounds
• Be aware of how sounds are simplified in the stream of speech.

The key concepts covered are:

• Phonemes
• Phonemic script
• Simplification
• Minimal pairs
• Contrastive analysis

This interactive 90-minute training is designed as a workshop and would engage participants in discussions and engaging activities.