The TCCP specialty courses run for 10 hours per week for 6 weeks. They are offered in April and September each year. “Fundamentals of TESOL” is a prerequisite.
Choose one of the following courses:
Teaching Language Skills and Assessment: Adult Learners
10 April - 21 May 2013
11 September - 22 October 2013
Course Description
This course, which is guided and supported by TESOL’s Standards for ESL/EFL Teachers of Adults (2009), discusses appropriate methods and techniques for teaching language skills, vocabulary, and grammar to adult learners. The participants learn how to address the language learners’ needs and different learning styles. The course also stresses assessment approaches and tools to help English language teachers accurately evaluate students’ learning and proficiency.
The adult students discussed in this course include language learners who may not be literate in their native language. Because these learners come from a variety of backgrounds, this course also discusses literacy issues and cultural aspects of language acquisition. This course focuses on both ESL and EFL contexts.
About the Instructors
Radmila Popovic has been in the field of TESOL for more than 20 years. She holds a doctorate in applied linguistics and an MA in linguistics from the University of Belgrade, Serbia (her native country), and an MA in TESOL from SIT Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, Vermont.
Radmila is primarily interested in effective ways of drawing on the knowledge of “foreign” and “local” experts to effect educational change. At present, she works as an education specialist (TESOL) for World Learning, Washington DC. Before that, she was Assistant Professor in ELT Methodology at the University of Belgrade. She also ran teacher training and trainer training courses for the British Council in Serbia, Turkey and Nepal, and taught at MA in TESOL program for SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont and the New School in New York.
Her areas of interest include second language acquisition, teacher education, critical pedagogy and online learning. She is a member of TESOL’s Professional Development Committee.
Jayme Adelson-Goldstein is an adult English as a second language (ESL) professional development specialist, curriculum consultant, and author. Over the past 30 years, Jayme has focused on helping adult and secondary ESL teachers reflect on and refine their instructional techniques in areas such as task-based learning, cooperative learning, vocabulary development, focused listening, and multilevel instruction. In addition to her extensive training work, Jayme has consulted and developed materials for numerous agencies including Singapore's Institute for Adult Learning -Center for Workplace Literacy (IAL-CWPL); the California Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO); and the Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN). Her most recent projects include a blended learning course in focused listening (IAL-CWPL) a virtual teacher workroom for multilevel instructors (CALPRO); and a curriculum for a transitional ESL writing course (Glendale Community College, CA). She is the 2012-2013 adult level chair for the California TESOL affiliate (CATESOL) and the Newsletter Editor for the Materials Writers' Interest section. Her publications include Listen First, The Oxford Picture Dictionary, and Step Forward: English for Everyday Life. Jayme has been a keynote and plenary speaker at numerous conferences including ELTA Serbia, CEN-Ecuador, Ontario TESL , and various state and regional TESOL conferences. Her workshop, Grappling with the Group Dynamic, was a Best of Affiliates session at TESOL 2012.
Teaching Language Skills and Assessment: Young Learners
10 April - 21 May 2013
11 September - 22 October 2013
Course Description
This course is focused on EFL contexts. It provides participants with a solid foundation using appropriate methods and techniques for teaching language skills, vocabulary, and grammar to school-age learners. Participants also learn about the importance of language acquisition for young learners’ physical, social, and cognitive development and discusses the factors that contribute to these learners’ success. Given the diversity of learning contexts worldwide, this course also discusses cultural aspects of language acquisition. Participants learn how to address diverse students’ needs and learning styles. The course also explores assessment approaches and tools to help English language teachers accurately evaluate students’ learning and proficiency, and use the information for targeted instruction.
About the Instructor
Joanna Rodiki Petrides has more than 20 years of experience in the English language teaching field. A trained primary school teacher and EFL teacher and teacher trainer, she currently works as the Deputy Head in Primary Education and as a Scientific Associate at the European University of Cyprus (Foreign Language Teaching in Primary Education classes). She has a teaching diploma from the Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus, a bachelor of education and her doctorate in the Teaching of Modern Languages from the University of Surrey Roehampton, United Kingdom, and a master of arts in applied linguistics for language teaching from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Her areas of interest include teacher training, online teaching, foreign language teaching, material design, curriculum development, and implementation of information and communication technologies in education.