Use of English Review Courses

 In Customized Training Services we believe teachers of English need to be knowledgeable 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 strengths and weaknesses in personalized tutoring sessions with personalized feedback using web tools for that purpose.

We are sure you´ll find these courses useful.

VIII Summer Course

 Differentiation and learning gaps

While preparing my sessions for the VIII Summer Course, I came across this tool which I think is very useful for students to use to practise their language.

 

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.  

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