ESOL Course development experience:



Language courses can start small...                                                As they grow and develop, they need constant maintenance.

ESOL PROJECT

August 2014 : British Council Accreditation Project.

From December 2013- August 2014 I took over the role of Director of Studies (EFL and Languages)

This role involved not only teaching, but a complete re-organisation of the educational infrastructure of the school with specific reference to EFL / ESOL.

PUT IN PLACE:

* A totally new course based on previous requirements, with downloadable lesson plans, worksheets and materials.
* Systematic student oral and written assessment pre and post course according to the CEFR scale.
* Teacher observation, the introduction of CPD and a stronger teacher training emphasis.
* Regular staff meetings and collaboration
* Development of online systems for course access and other administration and documentation.
* Creation of a variety of education and administration policy documents .
* Introduction of proper teacher recruitment and substitution policies and systems.
* Introduction of systematised schemes of work and lesson planning procedures.
(And many more actions)

GAINED:

British Council Accreditation, August 2014.

Enabling the school to move forward with a Summer School Project and attract more contracts.



Your Project or new course development


If you would like help from UTTA in developing or re-shaping your educational project or designing a new course, please get in touch. We are particularly well-placed to advise on and develop language-based projects in ESL EFL ESOL or any grammatical project, work in MFL and languages areas or music and performance related developments. We are also happy to work on course development and course design outside the languages ESOL and music arena, and we are very quick to adapt to new systems and formats. Jane has a wide educational and teaching background and has carried out a number of major educational research projects in various aspects of language, ESL and sociolinguistics, having also a decade of business management experience.

Contact UTTA with your educational course requirements or development needs.


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