Break the silence and spice up your students’ speaking skills. In this course we will have the opportunity to share a series of practical ideas and methodologies on how to raise your students’ interests to learn and play with the language while exploring their innate ability to acquire linguistic structures. Throughout the sessions, we will also create activities to engage the 21^st century student while promoting their communicative competence.

'Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but also capable of succeeding.' - Robert John Meehan

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Mentoring has been around for a long time and we all think we know what it is. However, over the years, mentoring has developed into a significant field of study with multiple applications in education.

In our course we will have the opportunity to build our understanding of the subject through some reading (and videos) from experts, videos about projects in different contexts, and mainly by discussing our discovery and doubt with each other during synchronous class time as well as the online asynchronous forum.

We will discuss difference between mentoring and other areas such as coaching, tutoring, teaching, friendship, advice, and so on. We will discuss what mentoring looks like in school and discuss whether the concept of "good students helping struggling students" is the best model for our contexts. 

After the course you will feel confident of your ability to contribute to a mentoring project within your own school context — whether that be a mentoring programme for students or teachers.

The course is built around this shared discovery and learning community rather than through presentation of content via a more traditional instructional model. 

Our motto will be "There is comfort in the learning zone, and no learning in the comfort zone!"

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This comprehensive course is designed to equip EFL teachers with the essential knowledge and practical skills to effectively implement formative assessment and provide high-quality constructive feedback in their classrooms. Through a blend of theoretical concepts and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to design and utilize a variety of formative assessment strategies, develop clear learning intentions and success criteria, create meaningful rubrics, monitor student progress, and deliver feedback that drives student learning forward. By the end of the course, teachers will be able to seamlessly integrate formative assessment practices into their lesson and unit planning, empowering them to better support the diverse needs of their students and foster a classroom environment focused on continuous improvement. This course is an invaluable professional development opportunity for EFL teachers seeking to enhance their assessment and feedback skills.

This comprehensive course is designed to equip EFL teachers with the essential knowledge and practical skills to effectively implement formative assessment and provide high-quality constructive feedback in their classrooms. Through a blend of theoretical concepts and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to design and utilize a variety of formative assessment strategies, develop clear learning intentions and success criteria, create meaningful rubrics, monitor student progress, and deliver feedback that drives student learning forward. By the end of the course, teachers will be able to seamlessly integrate formative assessment practices into their lesson and unit planning, empowering them to better support the diverse needs of their students and foster a classroom environment focused on continuous improvement. This course is an invaluable professional development opportunity for EFL teachers seeking to enhance their assessment and feedback skills.

The main goal of this course is to develop teachers' Digital Competence. We will develop research skills for new digital tools and their usefulness for language learning. We will get to know different digital tools and develop skills in their use. Throughout the course, we will plan and implement activities using digital tools to promote students' communicative competence, particularly oral and written production, and that can also promote the creation of digital content by students. Sharing and reflection among trainees will be a strong component of this course.

This 50 hour blended course (synchronous and asynchronous sessions) will help both newer and more experienced teachers of teenagers to re-examine the fundamental principles that underlie their practice as well as well as providing a huge number of techniques, strategies and activities to make their classrooms more productive, to deal with common classroom challenges and to send them back to their respective classrooms energized and inspired.

The main aim of this eCourse is to facilitate a fresh new perspective towards the 21st century classroom. Throughout each module participants will find theory and practice intertwined in order to build a strong understanding of the best resources and strategies for second and third cycle learners.