Modules for the Summer course

 

Happy Teacher´s Day

 

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.

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.

XXI CTS Academic event

Dear all

Please join us in our last event of the year. We will count on the expertise of lecturers from RELO Andes and MINEDU to wrap up our year devoted to Formative Assessment. 

We would love to receive your feedback and suggestions of academic topics for 2020. You are all very welcome!! 

Some mementos of our last Academic Event

On May 25th, Customized Training Services held our XIX Academic Event. We need to thank all those who made this possible: our participants, Macmillan, NUTESA and our two lecturers Ms. Liliana Burga and Ms Ellen Berry. Special thanks to RELO Andes for their FORUM magazines and for allowing the participation of their fellow Ms Ellen Berry. 

Our Sixth Summer Course (Online version) has come to an end and we are really pleased to have had participants who have worked really hard to complete the tasks. Here is a summary of their production:

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

First CTS ELT Academic Conference

Thanks to all those who helped with the organization and development of the First CTS ELT Academic Conference. It was a complete success!!!

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.

Meet the presenters!!!

TKT CLIL Preparation Course

 A CLIL Science lesson

 This is really awesome!!!

We (CTS) have received requests of people who want to do the TKT CLIL on Saturdays so here you are:

Coming soon !!!

Fourth Summer Course for Top English Language Teachers 2017

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.

Writing is a difficult skill and since it is a process, it needs time to be taught and improved. We are hosting this Writing event again because it has proved to be well-received, successful and very useful for those people training for Cambridge International Exams such as Cambridge English First and Cambridge English Advanced.

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.

Whenever we start a new term I get really excited because we, the tutors at CTS, have more possibilities to meet new teachers and to work with the ones that have been with us for a while. We all share a common goal: to improve the level of our students by training and becoming better teachers.

This is the plan for the next term. We look forward to seeing you soon.

 

TACKLING TYPICAL GRAMMAR PROBLEMS

We  have now finished the third module of this course and the results could not have been more successful.

The purpose of the course is to help learners overcome some fossilized grammatical mistakes and/or raise awareness of some special cases that sometimes occur in even well-known structures.

Some sessions start with an activity based on a Use of English task and others go straight into understanding the structure and use of the Grammatical structure and then developing activities to put this knowledge into practice. The activities are not only sentences in a worksheet but also situations where students need to use what they have revised.

For instance, in the case of Reported Speech, students pretend they are at a party, they are given slips with some statements they need to say while mingling with the other guests while listening to some party music and then they have to report what they heard in the party.

To practise verbs and adjectives followed by prepositions we  use a game where students form groups and a member of the opposite group has to pick up cards with sentences where the preposition is missing. If they provide the right preposition,the score a point and can make their teams win.

Many people think learning Grammar is boring but in CTS we tried to make it useful and enjoyable and since the group was really small, we managed to make it really customized for participants´particular problems.

It feels good to hear from the participants that the course was good and useful and that they wanted more.

See you in the next course!!

FACEBOOK EVENTS

Customized Training Services (CTS) organizes Academic events for all our followers at very reduced prices. There are two ninety-minute-workshops on topics that have been suggested by CTS users, which I find really useful since it is the teachers themselves who require the topics they need.

Another reason why I look forward to these events is that we have the chance to gather teachers from different backgrounds who happily share and exchange ideas making this gathering a very enriching experience not only for them but also for me since this keeps me aware of the needs and the achievements of our teaching community.

The Fifth Facebook event last year coincided with the closing of CTS Academic Year and Christmas so there were many reasons for celebrating and being merry.

I am sharing an overview of the event in this video:

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.