Tailor-made courses

These practical courses will help your staff develop their teaching and related skills in areas which will specifically benefit your organisation. We negotiate the specific aims of each course or programme with you to ensure it is relevant, practical and cost effective.

Tailor-made courses can cover any area you choose such as, General or Business English, Young Learners or Teenagers to name just a few. We also provide courses for administration and management staff on areas such as leadership, time management and customer care.

If you have a group of teachers who would like to take one of our courses or you would like a tailor-made course for them, you should consider our tailor-made courses. These are closed courses for schools and institutions offered on our premises in Barcelona, London, Prague and Cadiz or on your premises-we send our trainer or trainers to you.

There are several practical reasons why a tailor-made course may be the best option for your school.

• It can be tailored to suit the needs of your staff
• It costs less than sponsoring staff individually to do external courses. You will also find funding is probably available*
• It can be more convenient to do the course on your own premises and on dates which suit you.

Above all, investing in your staff will improve their teaching and improve your business. In Spain for example, European and regional government funding is available. Please contact us tesol@oxfordtefl.com for further details.

Courses are tailor-made for your school. They may be face-to-face, on-line or a blended combination of the two elements. Our listed open courses can also be run for a school in-house.

This will depend on the type of course and training you require.

Our team of trainers are all Trinity Diploma or DELTA qualified as a minimum and have a wealth of experience in training teachers in a wide range of contexts.

They include established writers and conference speakers, capable of providing inspiration as well as practical ideas and support. Our approach is to work closely with the sponsor school to ensure that what we offer is appropriate and practical for your context.

Working with Primary and Secondary school English Teachers in Shenzhen, China

Where
Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China

How long
2 weeks

Why
10 schools were selected by the Chinese government from all over China to take part in the training course. Teachers won scholarships to attend the course.

Who
100 Primary and Secondary school teachers used to teaching classes of 50-80 students.

What
The timetable consisted of lesson planning, learning styles, motivation, ELT methodology, using role-play, creating speaking activities, project work, content based learning, using the Internet in the classroom, testing and assessing, presenting new language through listening skills, large classes, classroom management and peer teaching.

Before the course
The teachers were used to working straight from a very dry coursebook. The students worked individually on tasks and hardly ever work on pairs or groups. The teachers we worried about the students working together due to logistics and discipline problems. The only time students were called upon to speak was to drill long texts they had to memorise.

During the course
We taught the teachers how to adapt and supplement coursebooks so their students could identify with the subject matter more easily. We introduced motivating speaking activities to encourage the students to communicate with each other in a meaningful way. We showed them fun vocabulary games that didn't just rely on learning from rote. We also addressed the most pressing aspects of Classroom management to help them control such large classes.

Testimonial

"We started schooling in the beginning of september, here, i have to say "thanks" to you for your great help during the training, so many methods we learned work well in my daily teaching. the group work, debate, puzzle words, small games, i adopt them on purpose in my class and I have gained much praise from my students for their great progress."

If you have any questions or enquiries about this course, please don't hesitate to contact us, and a member of our team will be happy to answer you.