Thank you

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

Course: Teaching English to Young Learners

Some people believe that it is easy to teach children because they only want to play, it is true that they love to play but they also love to learn and teaching English to them is a very good combination of fun and knowledge. This is a methodology course for teachers who prepare candidates for Cambridge Young Learners examinations. Classes are hands-on and resources and tips are provided. 

XXI CTS academic event

 

 

 With a world changing so quickly in terms of technology, climate and- these days- health safety, our students, particularly teens, will need more than intellectual subject knowledge. They have lost their social peers near them and they cannot do regular “teen” things like sports, clubs, cinemas, they also  had to learn to adapt to a new kind of instructional format. How can we teachers help our students to acquire and develop skills for them to thrive in this context?

 Life competencies are now an integral part of education; our students need to develop emotional reasoning and critical thinking but we also need to know how they feel, what they want and how to face the future. We´ll try to provide some insights into this in this academic event.

Getting Ready for the Future

 Worldwide, lives are stressed and strained by COVID-19. The toll of the virus, isolation, increased workloads and other associated effects are rising among many students and teachers. Social and Emotional Learning is as important as any other curriculum subject and not only for our students but for teachers as well and so is wellbeing, soft skills for the future.

This time of year can be a good moment to check out how you’re feeling after 2020, a very different educational experience. In this event, we’ll look at ways that you can help yourself and, in turn, help your learners to achieve wellbeing and keep our mental health.

XXV CTS Academic Event

 XXV CTS Academic Event

Customized Training  Services is a small training company that runs workshops and academic seminars to support teachers. It is a company made up by teachers to help teachers but we also organize fund-raising events. For instance, Christmas celebrations for the children at AA HH Saul Cantoral in San Juan de Lurigancho in 2016.

All along 2019 the participants of our workshops, could study for free by paying their fees with bottle caps to support the NGO Niños de Cristal from the National Children Hospital.

This year 2020, we could not remain indifferent to all the problems that the Pandemia brought about and so we offered workshops related to teaching online from May to October and provided scholarships and free entrance to some of our colleagues who needed the instruction.

As a last activity we are organizing the XXV academic event on the use of Digital Portfolios divided in two parts: Tips for Implementation and assessment of Portfolios (English) and Herramientas para implementar Portafolios Digitales for a Christmas celebration in AA HH Saul Cantoral in San Juan de Lurigancho and Villa María del Triunfo.

We remain confident that in spite of the difficulties we are all going through, we will be able to help those less fortunate.

Certificate of Achievement

Training to improve my expertise and share it with our colleagues.

Don´t miss CTS´s Sixth Summer Course for Top Teachers of English !!!

Good Bye 2018

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

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.

Our last ICT and Web 2.0 Tools Full/Day Workshop of 2017 was run on October 29th. Watch the video to see the teachers who attended the course sharing and learning.

You can´t miss this!!!

Get ready for a real hands-on full time workshop with the most practical tools for school and university teachers.

Meet the presenters!!!

XII Facebook event

Each of these Facebook events is special but this last one was even more so because we had a new presenter, Ms Laura Marsh, the Academic Coordinator of Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya and also because it was the last event in NUTESA premises. NUTESA is a very old friend of ours and have always supported our academic initiatives providing not only the premises but also the coffee breaks, book exhibitions and prizes. We will be forever in debt with them.

The video below shows a summary of our XII Facebook event, get ready because there is more to come.!

Teaching is probably one of the most rewarding jobs although it may be the least well rewarded in terms of money in many countries.

In spite of that I am really happy to be a teacher and so today I need to thank my teachers for helping me to become who I am, I thank my fellow teachers for supporting and helping me to improve as a teacher. Last but not least, I am grateful to my students for teaching me how important it is to learn in order to teach.

Closing event 2016

Our IX Facebook event will also be our closing event of the year. We have done quite a lot along this year and would like to take advantage of this event to thank you because you are the ones who inspire us to be better.

As usual, attending your requests, we have prepared an interesting workshop on the skills needed for the 21st century so as to finish the year with some reflections on what we have done and some expectations of what we should be looking forward to next year.

On Saturday 5th, we will  also thank the teachers who attended all Facebook events during this year, we will hand out the last TKT Certificates  and will give a little token of our appreciation to all attendees.

I prepared a short video on some of the topics we presented this year and while choosing the photos to accompany the topics, I could see that many of you have accompanied us almost all year long.

Thanks very much for your trust, your company and for helping us to pursue our goal of contributing to the professional development of our friends.

Ninth Academic Facebook Event

I cannot believe it is that time of the year again!!!

The end of our Academic year and our last Facebook event. To close this year and get ready for the new one, we had been requested to present something on the skills needed for the 21st century and so we are going to do.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

We hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Christmas. We would like to remind you of our Third Summer Course for Top English Language Teachers 2016 which will take place from January 18th to 30th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm.

This year we also have guest tutors and since you know every year we develop different modules based on your requirements,  we are sure you will be happy with the modules we are offering for 2016. These are: 

• Creativity and Innovation in the Language Classroom
• Pronunciation and Grammar development from Pre-Intermediate to Advanced
• Teaching CLIL and Teaching Young Learners
• Using TICS and Socializing (Leadership and Team work) in the Classroom
• Improving the Four Skills using learning strategies

 Certification is for 200 hours and vacancies are limited.

 

View the previous Summer Courses.
 

 



Closing CTS Academic Year with our Fifth Facebook event

 

 

It is with great pleasure that Customized Training Services closed our academic events on December 5th not only with full attendance but also with a good response to our request of taking presents to provide a different Christmas for some of the kids at A.A. H.H Saul Cantoral. Thanks very much for that!!!!

 At the end of the V Facebook event,  the teachers who had done the Cambridge English First, TKT Young Learners, TKT CLIL and the CTS Course Teaching English Pronunciation received their Certificates. Some teachers even collected two Certificates having done the two TKTs or the Cambridge English First and a TKT showing that when there is a will there is a can. Some of them studied Saturdays and Sundays to be able to have a sound preparation for their exams and they certainly achieved their purpose.

We would like to thank our teachers of English not only for their effort but also for their inspiration. It really inspires us to see people who feel enthusiastic about their jobs, their lives and families. The good energy they transmit is contagious and oblige us to follow the example and get even more enthusiastic about what we do, thanks for having the faith to consider us as your trainers.

 We would also like to thank Ms. Maricarmen Rosas, Marketing Manager of NUTESA for all  their support at providing us with the premises, the coffee breaks, the presents and the publicity for our events. Thanks to her and to Marita Duarte from SM for her always being there to lend us a hand.

It is certainly inspiring to work with this kind of people who know where they are going, that happily make every effort to reach their goals and are determined to achieve what they want with drive and enthusiasm.