IV Congreso Internacional de Profesores de Inglés

 Happy to be part of it!!!

 

XXVIII CTS Academic Event

 This is the topic of our XXVIII CTS Academic event, a moment to enjoy and share knowledge and experience. 

I am looking forward to that. 

Inspiring quote

 This quote inspired me to study hard to become a true teacher and a real support for my students. 

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.

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.

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.

Merry Christmas !!!

My Christmas present:

Gratitude for what I received from all of you, for what I achieved, for your good will, your blessings and above all your love and friendship. 

XX CTS Academic Event

Correction is a question of balance, students know they need help to support their learning. This workshop will help you to choose when and how to correct and what approaches to take. It will also provide some useful tips to guide you through the skill of correcting errors.  

International Teacher Development Conference

UDEP International Development Conference

I really like to exchange ideas with colleagues about different issues related to improving our effectiveness at making students learn how to learn. It is refreshing to know that there are many of us on the same page and that we care enough to invest time in improving our abilities to support learning.

Pre-FCE Online Course

Official international Certificates are a very useful tool to study abroad or to demonstrate a specific Language level when applying for a job. In the job field some of the most commonly required Certificates are the ones issued by Cambridge Assessment English, particularly B2: First (previously known as FCE).

Over five million people in the world sit for Cambridge exams which measure basic skills when using a language: reading, listening, speaking and writing. First thing to do before becoming familiar with the exam structure is to reach the required level of proficiency in the language. That is why we have designed this Pre-FCE course where we will present and practice some of the most important language structures that are being assessed in the B2: First exam. Therefore, taking this course will allow participants to kill two birds with one stone: improve their Grammar proficiency and advance in their exam preparation. We can help you, contact us.

Sixth Summer Course

Topics for the Sixth Summer Course for Top English Language Teachers - 2019

The topics of our Sixth Summer Course rely on the principles for teaching in the 21st Century. We cannot teach in the same way we learned the language when we first encountered it. The demands of the new Century oblige us to cater for different needs and perhaps, one of the most important ones is to create an environment that is conducive to learning.

In this Module we will deal with learning strategies, learning styles and multiple intelligences to make differentiation a useful criteria for helping our students learn and use the recently acquired knowledge. 

Communication really matters!. In fact, it is one of the four Cs of education in the 21st Century and it takes place in so many ways that we need to catch up with the different purposes and tools that are currently in use so as to communicate for global understanding.

If teaching in the 21st Century implies the development of the four C´s (Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity), it also implies the development of information and media literacy for which we need to use the tools available through connectivity. There are free tools we can exploit to introduce the real world in our classrooms so as to make language learning really meaningful and memorable.

All this came to our minds when we decided and surveyed the possible topics for our 2019 Summer Course. As usual, CTS demands  full commitment for this hands-on event and provides plenty of time for putting into practice what students have just been introduced.

Welcome to this interesting and useful event!!!

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.

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.!

Developing Soft skills

Topic:  Developing time management skills

For every teacher, time is an important resource since we usually feel that it is not possible to achieve what we need because there is far too much work for the number of hours in a day. As teachers we need to balance the long-term goals with the immediate needs of our students besides all the additional work that comes along: writing lesson plans, grading exams and filling grade sheets, parents´ meetings, etc.

For all these reasons we need effective time management skills, to increase our productivity and provide a better education for our students. Join us in this workshop to help each other manage the situation.

Presenter:

Maria Luisa Mu is the Academic Director of CTS. She was the General Coordinator of the Language Department at USIL and is a certified teacher trainer with ample experience teaching Business in England, Spain, Chile and Peru where she participated in the organization of the English for Business Programme at ESAN and Universidad del Pacífico. She has also taught ESP at UNDP, FAO, OIT and UNESCO.

Maria Luisa is an educator who holds a Master in English Language Teaching from the University of Sheffield, England and has Post-Graduate Degrees (Diplomado de Segunda Especialidad) in Educational Management (PUCP), Information Technology (USIL), Curriculum Design for Distance Learning Courses (PUCP), Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (PUCP) and Teacher Training (UPCH).

She was the tutor of the blended-learning Master Degree course in TEFL from Universidad de Piura / FUNIBER and is currently one of their thesis advisors besides being a Speaking Examiner from Cambridge University from YLEs to CPE.

Topic:  Developing Self-Confidence: Helping Student’s Overcome their Fear

 In order to help our students achieve their best, we must understand what obstacles they are struggling with. In many cases, the limiting factor in a student’s progress is not a lack of ability or willingness to put in the work, but rather a lack of self-confidence. By helping students shake their fears and self-consciousness, we can encourage them to reach their full potential and share their knowledge and opinions with others.

Presenter:

Laura Marsh is a teacher from the United States who is currently working as Director of the Language Center at Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University and teaching specialized English classes to scholarship students focused on developing identity and professional and leadership skills. She holds a B.A. in Archaeology and an M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University, and her studies focused on the societies of the Andes. Her ELT experience includes teaching one-to-one academic English classes to foreign graduate students at Stanford and teaching recent immigrants entering into an English-speaking public high school in California. She has also designed and taught various anthropology, archaeology, and cultural heritage courses at the university level.

Professional Development: TKT CLIL

The end of the academic year is getting closer and we are more and more involved in finishing the syllabus and elaborating the end of year assessment tools. However, we should not lose track of our own personal syllabus and how to achieve our professional goals. This is why I share information about our last courses of the year. Let´s start with TKT CLIL, a preparation course for all those who teach English in an English for content environment.

I am really excited and thankful for the way teachers receive these events. Thanks God for allowing me to exchange and share ideas with my colleagues.