TeacherTraining
Online Teacher Development
Teacher development often gets stuck in theory or bombards you with endless recipes and activities without any real framing of when and why to apply them. Rather than being empowered as a teacher, you can end up feeling that you’re failing and that the only solution is yet more tools, more preparation, and more work.
Our approach to teacher development is different! We provide short clear insights into how learning takes place, and we explore the principles underlying current coursebooks and current methodologies, so you can understand better if and how you want to change your teaching.
Our ideas for adapting and producing material are guided by five clear principles of language and learning and show how you can really add value. We guarantee that the tasks and techniques we equip you with are:
- low tech and low resource
- repeatable in many different lessons
- adaptable to all course material
- focused on students and their ability to communicate
- aimed at keeping your workload down and increasing your value as a teacher
You can do our courses as self-study over a year, or follow the same content in four 90-min interactive Zoom sessions over 4 weeks.
All our online teacher development courses have free lessons you can try out, so why not have a look now.
What you get
- 8-12 hours of high quality content through quizzes, video, texts and reflection tasks.
- An in-course discussion board where you can share your ideas and ask questions.
- Additional links to content from Lexical Lab and external sites to extend your knowledge.
- Access to all materials for one year.
- A free webinar from Lexical Lab
- A free meet-up with tutor and fellow participants to discuss what you learnt and ask questions.
- An automated electronic certificate of completion with the name of the course and the Lexical Lab logo.
Format
We offer both self-study courses and Zoom courses. Self-study courses are always available. Zoom courses take place on Fridays at 1-2.30pm London time. For dates see individual courses below.
Courses
PLAN SMARTER AND GET THE MOST FROM YOUR COURSEBOOK
Next zoom course: October 4th to October 25th. Fridays 1-2.30pm (London time)
Learn how to create dynamic, communicative classes and teach more from your coursebook, without the need for extra materials and copying.
“I’m really pleased with the course. Sometimes I go back and try to recall things. One thing I found extremely helpful was the idea of affordances. I love the fact that I can just take a single glimpse at a sentence and add extra value. It works out well.”
Hubert Komosa
Teaching Listening Better
Next Zoom course: November 15th to Dec 6th. Fridays 1-2.30pm (London)
This course is designed to help you help your students listen – and hear – better. It equips you with a range of tricks, tools and techniques to take into your classroom and shows you how to get more out of the listening lessons in whatever coursebook you use.
“I really loved this course. It helped me crystalize Cauldwell’s botanical metaphor. Besides, hands-on tasks were relevant and raised awareness about how I can expand my listening classes and take them to the next level.”
Milba Benlliure
TEACHING LANGUAGES AT LOW LEVELS
Next Zoom: Fridays 1pm (London time) Jan 31st to Feb 21st, 2025
See how to teach Beginner and Elementary-level learners to communicate genuinely from day one. You’ll gain confidence and enjoy teaching low levels more, so you can inspire your students to keep going and learn more.
“Great Course. An in-depth examination of teaching at low levels, especially enjoyed the focus on adapting materials and building up materials and dialogues with students”.
Angela McClenaghan
Special offer!
Course bundle
Do any two self-study courses and get a 25% discount.
Do all the Zoom courses and get one free!
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If you have specific queries about our Online Teacher Development courses, contact andrew@lexicallab.com.