Teacher Training Courses
Teacher education has been our core focus since our foundation in 1968. With our long-standing history and with our specialist knowledge of teacher training, we have enabled in-service teachers from Southeast Asia and beyond to deepen their professional understanding, master new sets of skills and advance in their careers.
These courses are designed for professional development programmes, language teachers of all levels, teacher trainers, school leaders, university lecturers with effective EMI skills and strategies in teaching their academics.
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Becoming a Better Trainer: Strengthening Identity and Effectiveness in English Language Teacher Development (24 hours, in-person)
Teacher trainers have a profound influence on the growth of others, making it crucial for them to have self-awareness about their beliefs and identity as trainers. They must also stay informed about new trends in English language teaching and teacher education.
This four-day course engages experienced trainers in a reflective journey, encouraging them to explore key incidents that have shaped their identities and practices as trainers. Participants will reflect on how their unconscious beliefs may be expressed in their training and interactions with colleagues and course participants. In addition, this course will equip them with the skills needed to apply evidence-based training techniques. The course is rooted in principles of reflective pedagogy and critical pedagogy, encouraging participants to engage in self-reflection, peer reflection, consciousness-raising and problem-solving, developing socio-emotional competence, all within the context of English language teaching and teacher education in a global and digitally-immersed world.
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Preparing Senior High School Content Teachers for Bilingual Teaching
With the move towards bilingual education, there is a need to equip content teachers with confidence and competence to balance the use of English and their L1 in their teaching so that learners will be able to acquire both content and language proficiency at the same time. This professional development programme is specially customized for senior high school teachers to enhance their competence in the use of English for bilingual teaching. The programme aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Develop content teachers’ confidence and competence in using subject-specific, generic academic and colloquial language within a language-for-schooling framework;
- Enhance content teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge of how to deliver content lessons with attention to learners’ academic and general language development; and
- Equip content teachers with pedagogical knowledge and skills to integrate Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approaches into their existing lesson plans.
An English Teacher Training Course
This is a course to comprehend the key theories, principles and concepts in English language teaching, demonstrate the use of appropriate trainer strategies and interaction patterns in training, and review and update training materials used in English language teaching.
A Certificate Course in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
This course is designed for those interested in teaching English to non-native-speaking adult learners of English. The course aims to fulfil the following objectives:
- Equip participants with instructional skills and strategies to teach English to adult non-native speakers of English;
- Develop participants’ understanding of language learning processes and approaches;
- Develop foundational classroom teaching skills to teach receptive, productive and multimodal skills as well as grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation; and
- Hone participants’ language confidence and competence in using classroom language for instruction and management.
Language, Bilingualism and Education
As the educational contexts in the world are becoming increasingly multilingual, knowing how to teach in these contexts are crucial, especially for language instructors. This course equips the participants with necessary pedagogical knowledge and skills to be readily applied in their own language classrooms that are most likely multilingual in nature.
This is course recommended for language teachers of all levels, teacher trainers and school leaders.
Content
• Bilingualism and Language Ideologies
• Bilingual Education
• Bilingual Development
Our range of customised teacher training courses includes:
- An Introductory Course in TESOL
- English as Medium of Instruction (EMI)
- English as an International Language
- Innovative Pedagogy
- Language Assessment
- Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching
In order to meet the needs and expectations of learners and clients in today’s world, RELC can deliver live online courses using Zoom, online blended learning courses using Zoom and our learning management system, or face-to-face in a classroom at RELC or in a client’s premises.
For enquiries on above courses, please email us at course.enquiry@relc.org.sg