Continuous Professional Development Calendar - 2013

International House Dubai delivers continuous professional development workshops

for teachers on a monthly basis. These workshops will cover a range of topics which

have been suggested by teachers, management, and IH World and EAQUALS

inspectors.

If you have any other ideas of sessions, please let us know and we would be happy to

include them at a later date.

 

Participants:  Any teacher or person interested in teaching, including IH Dubai

teachers and teachers from other institutes

Day and Time: Saturdays from 3.00 – 4.30 pm on the dates below:

 

Incorporating Computers in the Classroom

 Although computers have been used in the classroom setting for decades now, we

still find many instances when they are being used only minimally or not at all. In this

workshop we will look at a few ways to make use of computers and the Internet in

the language classroom, with attention to ease of planning, ease of use and

ensuring equipment reliability.

 

 An Introduction to Demand-High ELT

Currently in ELT, the quality of teaching has never been higher, and teachers have

become very good at managing classes in a student-centred manner. But how

much learning really takes place? Are we tapping into the learners’ full potential?

In this session, we will be looking at the recent work of Scrivener and Underhill and

the concept of Demand-High ELT, which seeks to find ways to promote actual

language through small changes to the mindsets and practices of educators.

Incorporating Pronunciation Throughout Lessons

Many teachers don’t like pronunciation. It’s boring and all about individual sounds,

symbols and alphabets no-one understands. But, wait! Pronunciation is so much

more than the difference between “ship” and “sheep” or “tree” and “three”. In this

workshop, we’ll look at some practical ideas for incorporating pronunciation work

throughout a lesson, with games, exercises and maybe even a chant or two.

Teaching Delexicalized Verbs

Have you ever wondered why we say ‘have a banana’ and not ‘eat a banana’?

‘Got home’ instead of ‘arrived home’? In this session we will look at the wonderful

world of de-lexicalised verbs, why students have difficulties with them and how we

can deal with them.

Dates, Sessions and Trainer:

•  August 31st – Incorporating Computers

in the Classroom

Bruce Dauphin

•  September 21st – An Introduction to Demand-

  High ELT

  Ben Naismith

•  October 26th – Incorporating Pronunciation

  Chris Ożóg

•  November 23rd – Teaching Delexicalized

Verbs

  Carola Breakspear 

 

How to apply?

Email reception@ihdubai.com for application and registration forms

800 LEARN (53276) ihdubai.com

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registering to aend four sessions

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