Teacher Refresher – IHD-T
IH Dublin

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Our Teacher Refresher course is designed for non-native English-speaking teachers who want to refresh their English language skills while exploring new teaching methodologies and approaches. The course includes lectures, workshops, and interactive sessions, providing a wealth of practical ideas and activities that teachers can take back to their classrooms. It is ideal for those looking to enhance their teaching practice with fresh, innovative techniques.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
This course is ideal for those who:
- Are teachers looking to improve their English skills
- Want to explore and adopt new teaching methodologies and approaches
- Seek practical ideas and activities to enhance their learners’ classroom
- Aim to refresh and innovate their teaching practices

UNITS:
- Review of English language and skills
- Evaluation of new teaching methodologies and approaches
- Engaging lectures, workshops, and interactive sessions
- Practical ideas and activities to implement in your own classroom
- Opportunities to enhance your teaching practice with innovative techniques
*Each programme is tailored to the needs of the group of educators participating in the course.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By completing the Teacher Refresher course, participants will refresh their English language skills, explore new teaching methodologies, and acquire practical ideas and activities to enhance their classroom teaching.

SAMPLE TIMETABLE:
1) Monday
- Course outline and objectives, needs analysis and review
- Generating a cohesive classroom dynamic
2) Tuesday
- Motivation and management
- Working with minimal resources
- The Irish Education System
- Dublin Webquest
3) Wednesday
- Authentic Materials: Using newspapers in class
- Maximising Motivation and Participation: Task-based, learning
4) Thursday
- Pronunciation: Sounds and the phonemic chart
- Test-Teach-Test: Introduction to Irish history
- Imaginative projects and excursion lessons
- Excursion lesson workshop Marsh’s Library/Iveagh Gardens task
5) Friday
- AuthenticMaterials: Using literature in class
- Using technology in the classroom, weekly review

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY - Free days

6) Monday
- Conditionals
- Writing (incl process writing)
- Phonology: intonation and connected speech
7) Tuesday
- Vocabulary (incl lexical approach)
- Teaching speaking skill
- Cultural visit
8) Wednesday
- Assessment
- Modal auxiliary verbs
- Music and song
9) Thursday
- Future forms
- Using authentic materials
- Cultural visit
10) Friday
- Recycling and revision workshop
- Learner training
- Review

OTHER INFORMATION:
- Tuition: 25 hours of group lessons per week. Each lesson is 60 minutes.
- Timetable: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 13:15 and Tuesday to Thursday 14:15 - 17:00.
- Class size: Maximum 15

Przykładowe zajęcia dodatkowe:

bilard, bowling *, fitness *, horse riding *, ice scating *, paintball *, sport in park, table tennis

board games, boat cruises *, cinema afternoon/evening *, city tour/walk, concerts *, cooking lessons, cultural activities, cultural events and festivals, dance lessons/workshops, football matches, games nights, guided city tours *, international evenings, international food day, live music / music nights, museum visits, orientation tour, pub and restaurant evenings, school party, sightseeng, visits to music festivals

Wexford (Hook Head Lighthouse) *, Galway *, Belfast and Titanic Museum *, Garden of Ireland (Wicklow and Glendalough) *, Cliffs of Moher *, Burren *, Guinness Storehouse *, Dublin Zoo *, Trinity College Library *, The National Gallery of Ireland *, The Irish Museum of Modern Art *

* zajęcia dodatkowo płatne