Refresher Courses for English (ESOL) Teachers

Our two-week Refresher Courses for English (ESOL) Teachers have been designed by Rennert's experienced, licensed teacher trainers. The Refresher Courses are suitable for experienced, practicing teachers of English and teacher trainers who wish to:

• refresh their knowledge and skill of communicative teaching techniques
• learn new techniques, strategies and activities for teaching English
• reflect on their teaching skills and share teaching strategies and skills with other teachers
• develop their language skills further and enhance their knowledge of the English language

Student teachers who are training to become English teachers in their own country will also find these courses very useful.

The Refresher Courses for English (ESOL) Teachers are very practical and aim to raise an awareness of the latest techniques and skills in the classroom in line with the communicative methodology and current ESOL thinking and best practices.

There are two different 2-week courses, which can be taken separately or combined into one 4-week course. The courses are 4 hours/ day and can be combined with an additional 4 hours/ day of of study plus an organized activities schedule each afternoon that is included in the course price. Course participants will also have the opportunity to observe our teachers in their classrooms.

Teacher Refresher Courses Topics

Below are examples of topics that may be covered in the methodology courses.

• Learning styles, current best practices in English Language Teaching
• Classroom management issues
• Planning and staging lessons using different lesson frameworks
• Teaching phonology, including phonemic discrimination, word/sentence stress and intonation
• Production of spoken language; planning and carrying out genuinely communicative activities and ways to increase students' fluency
• Skills development, listening & reading sub-skills, lesson, staging, delivery and materials
• Writing sub-skills, the writing process, motivation and materials
• Using songs, audio-visuals and the Internet in class, materials and activities
• English for Specific Purposes, including multi-level classes, exam preparation classes, teaching young learners, teaching business English.

For sample schedules for Course A and Course B, click here.