Teaching English Online - Teacher development

Teaching English Online - Teacher development

       You are on a journey as a teacher of English and you prefer teaching English online?

      Which stage are you at as an English teacher?

1  Starting You are a trainee teacher of English taking initial training or you are not qualified as an English teacher but working as one.  2 Newly qualified You are a qualified teacher of English in your first two years of practice, who is putting initial training into practice.  3 Developing You are a practising qualified teacher of English with more than two years of experience, and still want to consolidate your essential skills.  4 Proficient You are an experienced qualified teacher of English with strong all-round knowledge and competence as a teacher.  5 Advanced You are a highly experienced qualified teacher, who comfortably takes on leading roles, such as mentoring, and may be planning to develop more specialist skills.  6 Specialist You are a practising specialist, such as a teacher trainer, materials writer, syllabus & curriculum developer, head of department/manager, testing expert, adviser on ELT issues (primary, secondary, vocational etc.), researcher.

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Books

       A range of ELT publications available in pdf to download. These include Milestones - a series of classic ELT texts published online as part of the British Council’s 75th anniversary celebrations.

      The British Council has launched a new scheme whose aim is to support unemployed UK graduates who are keen to pursue a career in Teaching English Online as a Foreign Language but who have not yet had the opportunity or do not have the resources to do so.

       Successful applicants will receive a British Council training grant of 50% of the course fee (tuition only) of a Cambridge CELTA or Trinity CertTESOL course, to be undertaken in the UK only. They will also be given a place on an additional teacher training day run by the British Council, which will provide guidance about starting a career as an English teacher overseas or in the UK.

     In many regions around the world there is a huge and growing demand for English online language teaching and a need for quality teachers to meet this. This new scheme from the British Council will help provide unemployed graduates from 2009 and 2010 with a gateway into an exciting and dynamic career which gives an insight into other cultures and communities while also helping people around the world to meet their own goals and aspirations.

      The British Council will subsidise 100 people during 2011 to study a one-month Trinity CertTESOL or Cambridge CELTA course at a UK training centre which will give them the necessary basic qualifications to go abroad and work as an English teacher. Every year thousands of UK citizens work overseas teaching English online language to people who want to improve their education and employment opportunities.

      After the one-month course successful applicants will also be provided with a full day of additional training at the British Council which will give them guidance about starting a career as an English teacher overseas or in the UK.

Teaching English Online - Teacher development