What is METT?
This blended course covers key teaching skills such as being responsive to your students’ needs and interests, working with multiple levels, as well as planning and delivering interesting, varied, fun English lessons where students make clear progress towards their goals.
Who is it for?
METT is a short course specially created for English teachers of refugees who are new to teaching or do not yet have formal teaching qualifications. This could include volunteers for community organisations. METT is also primarily geared towards English teachers of adults age 16+ but it is also relevant if you are teaching younger age groups. Ideally English teachers enrolled in METT are currently teaching or will be teaching in the upcoming 3 or so months.
What will you learn?
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
Use Mosaik resources effectively to be able to deliver enjoyable, productive lessons that move tangibly towards students’ goals.
Deliver learner centric lessons that treat the student holistically, taking into account their knowledge and experiences and as a key contributor to the learning process.
Rely on a new level of English language awareness to be able to effectively elicit, notice, analyse and extend student language output.
Create structured task based lessons that achieve learning outcomes and can flex depending on the needs of the learners on the day.
How will you learn?
The course will consist of 50% live, trainer-led sessions and 50% independent or collaborative work. The course is 8 units long. Each unit consists of 3 hours of live interaction (1.5h sessions 2x per week), followed by 3 hours independent work. As of now we are planning for the live sessions to occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-6:30pm UK time.
Trainer led sessions
These include live and video demo lessons followed by analysis and discussion of how these show theory in practice. During these sessions, participants will be asked to teach their peers in role-play practice lessons as well.
Independent Study
During independent study time, learners will do some language research to prepare for the questions their students might ask them, read further on the theories discussed in the live session and work with their groups to plan the lessons they will deliver in later sessions. All of the information and instructions needed will be available online.
Expectations
Trainees are expected to contribute fully to class discussions and to participate meaningfully in group activities both in and outside of live class time.
Time Commitment
The course is 48 hours long and this cohort will be delivered in our flexible part-time format: 2 days per week for 8 weeks (As of now we are planning for the live sessions to occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-6:30pm UK time and 3 hours of independent study each week
Key dates
- 1 February: Info session to learn more about the course
- 5 February: Deadline to apply
- 13 February: start of the course. The training will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-6:30pm (UK) for 8 weeks from 13 February - 9 April.
