English Courses for Overseas Teachers

LSI/IH Portsmouth offers two types of English training courses for non-native Secondary School teachers: Methodology and Language and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). These courses are suitable for non-native secondary school teachers of learners aged 11-16+ 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 and open group basis during the summer. 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.