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In this course participants will explore practices in the language classroom to benefit both teachers and learners best. Activities each day will include debates, videos, articles, demonstrations, peer work, small group discussions and outcome-oriented, mini-projects to capture key learning points. Participants will focus on applying new perspectives and practical ideas in the classroom and rethinking planning routines to strengthen instructional communication for learner-led language lessons.
Description:
The course will primarily identify when, why and how to approach learners differently in language classroom settings and help participants work with learners with a coaching mindset. Themes addressed will include a wide assortment of motivation- and empowerment-related items, exploring reasons for shifts in responsibilities and roles. Interaction through discussion and brainstorming sessions will be strongly encouraged. Emphasis will be on acquiring new skills and new insights into language classroom management with a creative, coaching approach. Activities will combine interactive theory, demonstrations, peer work, discussions, and feedback cycles led by an experienced teacher, communications trainer, facilitator, coach and teacher trainer
Aims and objectives:
- To find to build motivation and engagement for learners through coaching techniques.
- To find and bring out potential in language learners who seem lost and lack confidence in learning
- To address the most ’popular’ excuses for learning and working with resistance
- To learn techniques for holding clients responsible and accountable
- To learn how to use a coaching framework
- To enable learners to assemble their own, unique language learning strategies (short- and long-term)
- To empower teachers and learners in their respective roles and to work with goals and solution-orientedness.
- To decrease teacher workloads by learning to respond rather than react to learner challenges.
Learning outcomes:
- Participants will be able to look at lesson planning, and in-class processes with a different focus and avoid the trap of ‘telling and giving advice’ as a go-to mechanism.
- All attending will perfect their professional dynamics by working in partnership with peers from the start.
- There will be a Stronger trust in learners and true reliance on the creative self.
- You will have the toolkit to reframe the mindset of learners labeled „difficult”.
- Participants will have acquired basic coaching competencies, thus deepening learning processes by the end of the course.
- You will be able to identify the best way you can offer support and development for your learners by understanding what they really need.
Target groups:
- Teachers who find traditional language teaching activities are NOT what language learners are requesting at the start of course and get put off when encountering it;
- Teachers who wish to create an inclusive, collaborative, and co-creative learning environment and are open to trying out new approaches in their practice;
- Teachers who wish to look at who their learners can be, not what they have been
- Teachers who are keen to view their language learners holistically, not merely based on performance.
- Teachers who want to boost evaluation, assessment, and initial one-to-one or group placement tests.
Minimum level of language: English, B2-C1
Duration of training: 35 lessons, 7 days
Trainer: Gabriella Kovács
Date:
Vienna (English)
2025.04.21-26. Planned
Rovinj (English)
2025.07.20-26. Planned
Location: Rovinj, Vienna
Price: EUR 595, incl. course, certificate, Erasmus+ documentation (if needed), a cultural activity
Applicable funds: As part of the Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (KA1), all costs for mobility /travel expenses, course fees, accommodation, subsistence fee/ are covered by the fund.
