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Good Bye 2018

Good bye 2018, thanks for all the teaching and learning. Welcome 2019, we look forward to what you are bringing along.

Wish that the New Year be a messenger of peace, joy and good tidings

Happy to share with teachers of English from Trujillo.

Communication Skills for Cambridge Exams

Thank you friends and colleagues. We know there are lots of offers of workshops, seminars and courses all around so thanks for choosing Customized Training Services to contribute to your professional development. 

Some other institutions and even some of our former students run courses using the same name and characteristics of ours and even the material we provided them with. This instead of bothering us makes us happy since it contributes to reaching more people who need this knowledge and also because it reassures us. We are certainly doing a good job in CTS.

XVI ACADEMIC FACEBOOK EVENT

Cambridge Exams are really important not only for our students but for us teachers of English as well since we cannot teach what we do not know. 

This is why we have chosen the topic of Communication Skills for Cambridge Exams emphasising the Communicative aims of some of the papers and not focusing in just one exam but on the different aims that B1 Preliminary and B2 First in particular have.

FIRST WINTER COURSE FOR TOP ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

July was a wonderful month. In CTS we have been offering blended learning courses but in July we decided that it was already time for a full online course...and so we did.

This First Winter Course -fully online- lasted two weeks and it consisted of two modules: Adapting and preparing material using 21st Century approaches and How to teach Grammar with emphasis on Communicative and Cognitive Skills.

The information was presented through webinars and Prezi presentations and we used a Learning Management System to keep track of all the consolidation activities that participants needed to satisfactorily complete in order to receive their Certificate of Participation. 

In CTS we believe in hard work and the investment that participants make in our courses. This is why we always provide input and opportunities for output since we need to make sure that our participants are taking away useful ideas, techniques and strategies to improve their teaching practice.

This has been a wonderful experience and we look forward to offering more online courses to meet some of our teachers of English needs. 

XV CTS Academic Facebook Event

Continuing with our policy of exchanging ideas with our colleagues, it is a real pleasure to announce our XV CTS Facebook event, Improving our Teaching Skills, where two workshops will be run:  Developing Soft skills for teachers and Writing to be Read: Using templates. 

For these workshops, we will be using working stations again, so everybody will have the chance to produce different kinds of texts and take useful material home.

We look forward to meeting you.

XIV CTS Academic Facebook Event

On February 17th we ran our XIV CTS Academic Facebook event on Back to School: What to do the First Day of Classes. Along the workshops we invited  some of the teachers to try some of the ideas presented in the event and share their experience with us.... and so they did. It is absolutely rewarding to know that CTS helps colleagues introduce variety in their teaching practice. 

You can see some of the highlights of the event below: 

And the teachers´contribution in our Facebook page: PeruCTS

TKT -CLIL Preparation Course

Since last year CTS has been presenting -in its Academic Facebook events- topics related to teaching in the 21st Century. Among the skills we need our students to develop are Collaborative learning, effective Communication, Creativity and Critical thinking, the four Cs that have a lot in common with the four Cs of CLIL: Communication, Cognition, Content and Culture

Once again, CTS is offering its TKT CLIL preparation course where all these issues will be developed and discussed as part of the preparation for the TKT CLIL exam. As usual, there are few seats available and due to the success of our blended learning approach, we will continue using this format.

We look forward to hearing from you. 

Thanks very much to all those who attended our XIV Facebook event and made it such a great success. Photos have been posted in our Facebook page and soon a video on the highlights of the event will be posted here.

Last year was full of change and presented many challenges and lessons for CTS. We ran our customary Facebook events devoting time to issues such as Neuroscience, Education and Soft Skills. We also held our First CTS ELT Academic Conference in late September and ran workshops in Trujillo and Cajamarca.

As we take this time to contemplate the previous year, we feel very proud for having the courage once again to face situations  that would demand a lot of energy and stamina not only from us but also from our students. We congratulate them on finding the time and making the effort to join us in our courses: Cambridge English First (FCE) preparation courses, TKT CLIL, TKT Young Learners, TKT Core, Grammar Games for the English Classroom-this year we ran three of these courses, Web 2.0 and ICT tools for ELT and our classic Improving Writing Skills. Thank you very much for your commitment, we all know how demanding our courses and workshops are.

For most people, the beginning of a new year is a natural time to make adjustments and set goals. However, any time is the time to start a self-improvement program.

This year CTS starts activities with our XIV Facebook Event: Welcome back: Get ready for 2018 ELT Challenges where we will try to support teachers with their lesson planning and methodology tips so  as to meet everyone´s expectations for the first days of school. We will also introduce some online courses besides our blended learning TKTs, CAE preparation courses and will visit the Provinces once again.

We look forward to seeing you and would love to help you fall deeply and passionately in love – with yourself and your work!.