English Courses for Overseas Teachers

LSI/IH Portsmouth offers two types of English training courses for teachers: Methodology and Language and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). These courses are suitable for school teachers of learners in primary and secondary schools and for those who are converting to teaching in English and for teachers who teach their subjects in English.

Both courses are available all year round on a closed group basis. The programmes are designed to help teachers gain confidence and new skills to take back into the classroom.

Course objectives:

The course objectives are for participants to be able to:

• Understand and discuss current methodologies within the context of their teaching.
• Increase their ability to plan, teach and assess learners’ progress.
• Refresh and develop own language and levels of fluency, accuracy and confidence.
• Improve instructional and language terminology.

Course content

The course content can include:

• Teaching the four language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.
• Creative activities for secondary school learners.
• Classroom management skills.
• Utilising drama, text, music and songs in the classroom.
• Teaching and developing thinking skills.