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THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL DELTA COURSE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL YOUNG LEARNER TEACHER TRAINING
The Young Learners Department at Cambridge School, Vallès Oriental is a recognized centre of excellence both in terms of the quality of tuiDon offered to its almost 2,000 students and also for the teacher trainer services it offers. Our expert trainers can help schools and individual teachers to excel with children and teenagers.
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SEMINARS FOR SCHOOLS Having guest speakers visit your school to give seminars on topics of everyday relevance to your teachers is a great way to moDvate and furnish your teaching team with new ideas.
All of the talks listed below have been successfully delivered either as monothemaDc seminars or extended courses at schools and teacher training events all over Catalonia, Spain and beyond for presDgious organizaDons including ESADE University, Macmillan ELT, CUP ELT, TESOL and InternaDonal House Barcelona. ArDcles based on some of the talks have been published in the MacMag or It’s for Teachers magazine.
If you are interested in one of our expert teachers coming to your school to deliver a seminar from the list above, or on an another topic of your choice, please get in touch with our Head of Young Learners, Karen Pomerleau, by phone (93.870.20.01) or email: [email protected].
Lexis games for children WriDng with children
Grammar games for children Helping children to speak
Behaviour management with children DramaDzaDon with children
CreaDng stories with children Using stories with teenagers
Behaviour management with teenagers Ge_ng teenagers speaking
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COURSES FOR SCHOOL Cambridge School is proud to offer schools and other academic insDtuDons made-‐to-‐measure extended training packages for teachers of young learners. We can provide you with moDvaDng, enriching courses focused on the needs of your teachers and your insDtuDon. Just let us know the age range and pedagogical issues you would like us to focus on and how long you would like the course to last (from 4 to 20 hours) and we will prepare a proposal to meet your requirements.
Our trainers have successfully delivered young learner teacher training courses for schools and other insDtuDons such as the Casal del Mestre in Granollers, ESADE University in Barcelona, and other schools in the Barcelona region and as far afield as Turkey.
Example programme – 15 hour course for teachers of children aged 3-‐12 Day 1 – Needs analysis, how children learn languages, teaching lexical chunks through play Day 2 – Teaching ‘grammar’ to children, using acDon stories, teaching classroom language and speaking Day 3 – Using stories with children, creaDng class stories, project work Day 4 – Behaviour management, fast finishers, using dramaDzaDon Day 5 – Using songs and chants, creaDng class chants, presenDng students work on social media – YouTube, Blogs
As an approved training centre for the EU Social Fund’s FTFE (Fundación TriparDta para la Formación en el Empleo) Cambridge School’s Subsidies Department can also calculate the rebate your school could receive from the government towards the cost of the course.
If you would like more informaDon please get in touch with our Head of Young Learners, Karen Pomerleau, by phone (93.870.20.01) or email: [email protected].
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PERSONAL MENTORING
The Cambridge School Young Learners’ Department has many years of experience in mentoring hundreds of teachers ranging from newly-‐qualified to the moderately experienced. The guidance and insights proffered by our expert advice trainers puts teachers on the fast-‐track to becoming excellent teachers of children and teenagers.
If you are recently qualified or have some experience under your belt and want to move up to the next level, we can prepare, in consultaDon with you, a personalised mentoring package which will include input from an experienced teacher trainer, the chance to observe your trainer in acDon and for you to be observed by your trainer teaching a group of young learners.
Sample mentoring package (5½ hours, spread over 5 days) Day 1 – ConsultaDon with training manager – deciding on age group, designing training package Day 2 – Input with mentor – introducDon to age range and how they learn, advice in lesson planning and delivery Day 3 – ObservaDon of mentor – observe your mentor teaching and discuss the lesson alerwards in feedback Day 4 – Second observaDon of mentor – another observaDon followed by feedback and discussion Day 5 – Be observed by mentor – teach a lesson and analyse your strengths and weaknesses alerwards with your mentor
The cost of a 5½ hour mentoring package, such as the one detailed above is 150€.
If you would like more informaDon please get in touch with Karen Pomerleau by phone (93.870.20.01) or email: [email protected].
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ONLINE TRAINING Our online training packages are ideal for recently-‐qualified teachers of young learners or pracDcing teachers who want to develop further. The online content covers a wide range of teaching issues in a systemaDc and sDmulaDng way. Teachers undertaking the course are also provided with an expert young learners’ teacher trainer who will give them encouragement, feedback and sage advice.
For more details click here to visit the Cambridge School Net Languages Methodology for Teachers page.
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MEET OUR TRAINERS
Alistair Jones was Head of Young Learners at Cambridge School, Granollers from 1998 to 2004 where he now works as Centre Director. He has also been the Academic Co-‐ordinator for BriDsh Summer’s summer camp programmes since 2001. He is a regular speaker at teacher training events for Macmillan ELT and had given extended training courses at ESADE University, in Ankara, Turkey for InternaDonal House and this summer for the Casal del Mestre, Granollers. He is the co-‐author of Net Languages’ courses, English 4 Kids and English 4 Teens, and also of Clever Kids, a CD-‐ROM released by OUP in 2004. He recently
wrote the student websites for Macmillan ELT’s Bugs World series.
Alistair is especially interested in maximising children and teenager’s learning experience and acDvaDng both the teacher and students’ creaDvity in the classroom.
Karen Pomerleau has been teaching English for over 15 years in a variety of different se_ngs. She started teaching English to children in Québec, Canada. Her teaching career conDnued in Japan, where she became the director of young learners at her school. She has been teaching at Cambridge School in Granollers since 2001 and is currently the Head of Young Learners where her responsibiliDes include course design, school-‐wide behaviour management and teacher support. She is also a regular speaker at Macmillan ELT Teacher Training Events.
Karen teaches young learners of all ages and mentors teachers year-‐round, helping them to find the perfect balance between enjoyable, memorable lessons and effecDve behaviour management.
Miriam Parmenter has been teaching English to Young Learners in both academies and primary schools for over 30 years. As a member of the Cambridge School YL Teacher Training Team, Miriam is responsible for giving year-‐round educaDonal support to teachers. Miriam also works as a storyteller, telling stories to groups of children and their parents in libraries, schools, and civic centres all over the Barcelona region.
Miriam is passionate about teaching very young learners aged 3-‐7 and believes very strongly in the use of play, stories and songs with VYLs and achieving
effecDve classroom organisaDon using rouDnes.
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Tel. +34 93 870 20 01
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