XXXVIII CTS Academic Event

The integration of Technology in English Language Learning is of paramount importance for both teachers and students. It provides students with access to an incredible variety of online resources at their own place and pace allowing them to become more independent, promoting collaboration and making concepts more accessible (using instructional videos, for example). For teachers, the use of technology helps them motivate students through engaging activities, which enhance the learning experience.

 

2024 CTS Summer Course

 Welcome to our 2024 Summer Course!!!

Thank you

 It is always a pleasure to exchange ideas from different contexts. Thank you very much!!

Modules for the Summer course

 

Ending the IX Summer Course for Top Teachers of English.

Today is Project submission day for the participants in the IX CTS Summer Course for Top Teachers of English . These two past weeks have been such a delight with so much discussion and exchange of ideas. I am so proud of these teachers who are so concerned about getting ready for the school year investing time and effort in improving their teaching practice. So much to learn, so much to thank them!!

Announcing CTS Academic event

Planning lessons for "the new normal"

As part of the standards of practice for any teacher, being informed, aware and reflecting on the important issues and challenges in the profession as a whole is an essential part of all teacher education and development. In this event, we will exchange ideas of what issues need to be born in mind when planning our lessons in the “new” teaching context.

 

Summary of 2021

 Below there is a summary of the CTS activities  (second part) we had in 2021. It was quite a year!!! Lots of challenges and decisions, lots of love, caring and sharing. It ended with hope for a wonderful 2022. 

Why a Summer Course?

 

CTS´s IX Summer course (online)

 SMART is an acronym that is often used in business as a guide for setting business objectives, but can be applied to language outcomes. The "new normal" in our country is something blurred and although we were the last country in Latin America to resume in-person classes, we are not sure the conditions are the best to support teaching to a group of students who have been affected both emotionally and academically by the pandemic. 

However, I believe we can learn from our mistakes, improve the strategies we learned and used and get ready for whatever situation may come up. This is the rationale behind this summer course where we expect to exchange ideas and enrich our repertoire with what our colleagues have to share. 

XXIX CTS Academic Event

Paradigms, mindsets and tools have changed now that most of us are teaching online. The "new normal" is being planned as hybrid teaching (online and in person) and that brings about its own challenges. We´ll discuss some of these and we´ll all try to work out solutions to overcome them in the two workshops of this session.

Summer Summary

 

Classes have started in Peru and in CTS we are happy to know that this time our teachers are better prepared to deal with the challenges that online teaching brings along. As we like to keep in touch with our CTS family and friends, we started 2021 with activities (courses and seminars) aiming at supporting teachers with closing the gap for those students who could not reach the same level of progress as their peers. Here is what we did from January to March.

VIII Summer Course (2021)

 

We teachers are facing uncertainty around how we will deliver learning in the months to come, will it be in a classroom, will it continue online or will it be some mixture of the two? 

We need to be prepared for situations where we find that previous levels of use of the language have not been maintained and where some learners have made better progress than others. 

The purpose of this summer course is to provide strategies teachers can use to support the learning process whatever the transition to school learning is, strategies that could also apply to other learning contexts.