Atheneum Global Teacher Training College, a global provider of
teacher education, has collaborated with Language Point UK to
bring the prestigious Trinity College London Level 6
certificate for Practising Teachers (RQF) in the online
learning mode.
If you are part of the teaching community from any part of the
world with over 6 months of classroom teaching experience,
then this brand-new qualification from Trinity College London
is apt for you. The two high-quality training programs for
teachers will enable them to master the global teaching
methods and best practices and implement those in classrooms.
CertPT for Language Educators
The Certificate for Practising Teachers is a Professional
Development qualification for English language educators with
6 months or more experience in the TESOL classroom. It focuses
on developing teachers’ classroom skills through application
of principles of task and materials design, communicative
methodologies and teaching approaches applied in participants’
existing classrooms and with the learners that they teach
every day. The CertPT course can be studied entirely online,
as in-service training at participants’ place of work.
Course content
Pre-course Tasks (30 study hours),
focusing on language and methodology awareness, and research
into current theories of language education.
Unit 0 (15 study hours): Course introduction
This Unit introduces the online course system, all course
assignments and the roles and responsibilities that
participant teachers have on the course, and includes a
diagnostic video observation of participants teaching.
Live online tutorial 1 - goal setting
Unit 1 (15 study hours): Evaluation of published teaching
material
This Unit contains input into:
- Learner needs and preferences
- The features of effective teaching material
- TESOL approaches and methods
- Task-Based Learning
- Lesson staging and ordering techniques
- Live online tutorial 2 - Unit 1 feedback / Q+A
-
Individual tutorial - Assessed Task 1 Draft feedback
Unit 2 (15 study hours): Commentary on an adapted teaching
resource
This Unit contains input into:
-
Task design and purposes of different types of language
task
- The importance of context for language learning,
-
Advice for working in the specific learning settings
where course participants teach.
- Live online tutorial 3 - Unit 2 feedback / Q+A
-
Individual tutorial - Assessed Task 2 Draft feedback
Unit 3 (15 study hours): Commentary on a self-designed
teaching resource
This Unit contains further input into:
- The principles of language task design
- Task instructions
- Differentiation in mixed-ability classes
-
Maintaining clear linguistic purpose in language tasks
-
Support in designing an evidence-based feedback
instrument to use in teaching assessment for Unit 4.
- Live online tutorial 4 - Unit 3 feedback / Q+A
-
Individual tutorial - Assessed Task 3 Draft feedback
Unit 4 (15 study hours): Commentary on delivery of
self-designed material
This Unit is focused on the classroom delivery of the
self-designed resource from Unit 3.
Unit content includes a review of effective TESOL delivery
methods, including:
- Setting context
- Presenting new language effectively
- Checking meaning precisely
- Giving and checking task instructions
- Monitoring and in-task error correction
- Increasing engagement in post-task feedback
-
Live online tutorial 5 - Online lesson plan draft / Unit
4 feedback
-
Individual tutorial - Assessed Task 4 Draft feedback
CertPT for Online Educators
The Certificate for Practising Teachers is a Professional Development qualification for English language educators with with a focus on online education. It focuses on developing teachers’ learning skills through application of principles of task and materials design, e-pedagogy and teaching approaches applied in participants’ existing learning settings, and with the learners that they teach every day. The CertPT course can be studied entirely online, making it easy to integrate work and study commitments.
Course content
Pre-course Tasks (30 study hours),
focusing on language and methodology awareness, and research
into current theories of language education.
Unit 0 (15 study hours): Course introduction
This Unit introduces the online course system, all course
assignments and the roles and responsibilities that
participant teachers have on the course, and includes a
diagnostic video observation of participants teaching.
Live online tutorial 1 - goal setting
Unit 1 (15 study hours): Evaluation of published teaching
material
This Unit contains input into:
- Learner needs and preferences
- The features of effective teaching material
- TESOL approaches and methods
- Task-Based Learning
- Lesson staging and ordering techniques
- Live online tutorial 2 - Unit 1 feedback / Q+A
-
Individual tutorial - Assessed Task 1 Draft feedback
Unit 2 (15 study hours): Commentary on an adapted teaching
resource
This Unit contains input into:
-
Task design and purposes of different types of language
task
- The importance of context for language learning,
-
Advice for working in the specific learning settings
where course participants teach.
- Live online tutorial 3 - Unit 2 feedback / Q+A
-
Individual tutorial - Assessed Task 2 Draft feedback
Unit 3 (15 study hours): Commentary on a self-designed
teaching resource
This Unit contains further input into:
- The principles of language task design
- Task instructions
- Differentiation in mixed-ability classes
-
Maintaining clear linguistic purpose in language tasks
-
Support in designing an evidence-based feedback
instrument to use in teaching assessment for Unit 4.
- Live online tutorial 4 - Unit 3 feedback / Q+A
-
Individual tutorial - Assessed Task 3 Draft feedback
Unit 4 (15 study hours): Commentary on delivery of
self-designed material
This Unit is focused on the classroom delivery of the
self-designed resource from Unit 3.
Unit content includes a review of effective TESOL delivery
methods, including:
- Setting context
- Presenting new language effectively
- Checking meaning precisely
- Giving and checking task instructions
- Monitoring and in-task error correction
- Increasing engagement in post-task feedback
-
Live online tutorial 5 - Online lesson plan draft / Unit
4 feedback
-
Individual tutorial - Assessed Task 4 Draft feedback