Christmas Greetings

 

CTS Academic activities August-November 20202

2020 is a year to remember. Most of us had to learn new skills or adapt them to meet the challenges of lockdown, social distance and online work. In CTS we have tried to meet the expectations of our colleagues, our CTS family, and for that reason since March  we have been reading, attending courses, seminars and workshops trying to learn as much as possible about the different issues involved in teaching online to share it with them.

The video below summarizes the activities we ran from August to November.

 

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.

Digital Portfolios Seminar to support children in need

Digital portfolios provide students with a nice way to show examples of their best work and the process of developing that work. In this event we will develop this issue and will also present some tools for creating digital portfolios.

All the proceeds will be used to organize a Christmas celebration for the children of El Paraíso, a community in Villa María del Triunfo and a community kitchen in AAHH Saúl Cantoral in San Juan de Lurigancho.

Please help us to help. #CTSonline #Christmasforchildren

Improving our Online teaching - August 2020

 More on Improving our Online Teaching

In Customized Training Services we consider our training students as family members. When the Pandemic made us change our style of giving instructions we were there to help teachers to learn the ropes of remote learning. 

Nowadays, when teaching online is a current way of teaching, we support our CTS family with more language and methodology activities. We care and that´s why we share. 

Here is a video with a list of the courses and workshops we ran in August.

Last seminars

Our last series of seminars of the year

Remote learning has turned now into online learning so the need for immediate support has been met. We feel very proud of all the teachers who joined us in these courses trying to improve their delivery. Well done!!

Seminars in Spanish

Seminars in Spanish for teachers of other areas

Customized Training Services también apoya a docentes de cualquier especialidad que desean mejorar su práctica docente familiarizándose con algunas de estas herramientas para el aprendizaje a distancia. Cada seminario dura 1 hora y hay un número limitado de participantes para poder brindar apoyo personalizado y paso a paso a lo largo del mismo. Los esperamos.

Certificate of Achievement

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

The rippling effect

This year has been absolutely surreal. Our country ranks among the ones with the higher number of Corona virus infections and life outside home is like taking part in a science fiction film. 

I have not left home since quarantine started 3 and a half months ago but I am not planning to leave now that it has ended since it is not safe out there due to the number of people who leave and pretend to act as if there is no risk.

However, we have been running online courses during May and June supporting our CTS family and hoping they will share what they learned among their colleagues in their institutions. Here is a video summarising what we did in CTS Peru.

Dear colleagues

Thanks very much for welcoming our CTS Review Courses. Because of the demand we are opening another series that starts in June. Look forward to seeing you there.

Use of English Review Courses

In Customized Training Services we believe teachers of English need to be knowledgable in both knowing the language we teach as well as learning how to teach it whether it is face-to-face or online.

The aim of these review courses is to refresh some Use of English issues at different levels addressing each participant´s weaknesses in personalized tutoring sessions. We are sure you will find them useful.

Summary of VII Summer Blended learning Course

Dear CTS friends and family

We are going through difficult times where reaching the end of the tunnel is everybody´s responsibility so we need to abide by the rules and stay home.

In these times of lockdown, we teachers have even more responsibilities than before since we are expected to help our students learn in a virtual context they are not so familiar with because they use it more for entertainment and pleasure.

We need to prepare online teaching material that is – of course- different from the material we use for face-to-face lessons and we also need to use platforms and tools we are not so familiar with and with little time to master their use.

We know that little by little we will gain more skills at doing this and will manage to reduce preparation time while mastering the use of the Internet tools. It is at times like this when approaches such as Gamification , Flipped Learning, ICT and Web tools  can help us pass on knowledge, consolidate or even assess it.

At CTS we feel we have contributed  to support our teachers by having chosen the above approaches as modules for our last summer course both in its face-to-face as well as online modality. 

We are committed to keeping on offering practical courses and workshops (online modality) about tools and strategies for online context not only for teachers of English but for teachers of any subject. Thus, we can help our teachers in their virtual teaching practice until the time comes for meeting our students face to face without any health risk.

Please keep posted, we are working hard to support you and meanwhile take care and stay home. 

Below you can see some highlights of our VII Summer blended learning course.

XXII CTS Academic Event

The beginning of the new year is traditionally a popular time to tackle difficult tasks such as losing weight, or fulfilling worldly ambitions. But the transition from year to year can also be an opportune occasion to pursue emotional, spiritual, and intellectual growth. Towards this end Customized Training Services has prepared a series of events that involve learning new skills to support our professional development as well as to support students with learning difficulties. This XXII event is the first of them.

CTS VII Summer Course

Dear friends 

Customized Training Services invites you and your colleagues to its VII Summer Course for Top Teachers of English (blended modality. Competency-based learning includes inclusive learning and Tools for EFL Teaching includes Web tools as well.

We look forward to seeing you there.