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In-house professional development programmes
BKC-IH Moscow puts a great emphasis on its teachers’ professional development. Apart from internationally recognized courses, such as Cambridge CELTA, Cambridge DELTA, the IH Foundation in Teaching Business English and the IH Certificate in Teaching YLs , we offer specialized courses and workshops for BKC-IH teachers on a regular basis, free of charge:
Monthly Development Seminars for all BKC-IH Moscow Teachers.
The majority of sessions are run by EMT (Educational Management Team) members though we warmly encourage teachers to share their ideas as well. Every month we try to cover a variety of topics such as:
- Methodology
- Language Awareness
- Skills
- Teaching YL
- Teaching Teenagers
- General Teaching Issues
- Teaching Exam Classes
- Ideas from the Classroom
- Modern Languages (teaching Italian, Spanish, German, French)
Attending the monthly seminars is compulsory for all BKC-IH contract teachers. There is a coffee break between the sessions, when teachers can socialize with each other over a cup of tea or coffee and sandwiches.
Every seminar day starts with a teachers meeting, where teachers can get the latest news from the company, as well as discuss their day-by-day problems with the school management.
Language Awareness Course.
This programme is based on the International House Language Awareness Course designed by Alex Tilbury, and was adapted specifically for the needs of the BKC-IH teachers. The sessions take place every Friday over a period of 10 weeks. The course covers the following topics:
- Tense
- Auxiliaries and Operators
- Modal Verbs I
- Modal Verbs II
- Future Forms
- Forms with Have (perfect aspect)
- Forms with Be I (progressive aspect)
- Forms with Be II (passive voice)
- Conditional Sentence
- The Noun Phrase
Those teachers, who have attended 80% of the sessions, receive BKC-IH Teacher Training Centre Certificates. The course is run by experienced Cambridge CELTA trainers Irina Grekova and Simon Brooks. There are two LA courses per year: October-December and January-March, which gives an opportunity for all the interested teachers to attend them.
Methodology Workshops.
This is a series of workshops on language teaching methodology, which was initially designed for newly-qualified teachers; however it became very popular among experienced teachers, too. The sessions take place every. Wednesday. The course consists of the following topics:
- Grammar Presentation (the PPP approach)
- Concept Checking
- Classroom Management and Lesson Planning
- Teaching Receptive Skills
- Teaching Vocabulary
- Error Correction
- Arranging a Lesson around a Text
- Using the Task Based Approach
After the seminars the course trainers Irina Grekova and Simon Brooks discuss any questions with the participants and, if needed, give help and advice on lesson planning.
Workshops for Teaching VYLs.
This is a series of seminars dedicated to teaching English to Very Young Learners. The seminars are conducted by the ADOS for VYLs Jennifer Hillhouse. The seminar topics are:
- VYL Characteristics
- Discipline and Boundaries
- Using the Textbook
- Using Flashcards
- Craft Activities
- TPR and Action Stories
- Songs and Chants
- Storytelling
- Literacy
- L1
- Creativity and Imagination
- English as a Means of Communication
Those teachers, who have attended 80% of the sessions, receive BKC-IH Teacher Training Centre Certificates.
Teaching Teens Workshops.
This is a series of seminars run by BKC-IH Teenage Groups Coordinator Clare Ashton once a week, usually on Tuesdays. The seminars cover the following topics:
- Rules and Routines
- Behaviour Management
- Differentiation
- Games and Activities with Teens
- Motivating Teens
- Camp Programmes
- Getting Teens to Speak
- How to Round Things Off
Those teachers, who have attended 80% of the sessions, receive BKC-IH Teacher Training Centre Certificates.
One of the main goals of BKC-IH Moscow is to provide high quality educational services to its students. Every academic year the BKC-IH Teacher Training Centre develops new programmes to meet teachers’ needs and to improve the quality of teaching foreign languages.
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