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IHCYL Course Programme

Possessing an initial qualification in teaching English to speakers of other languages (CELTA or similar) our trainees may be new to Young Learner teaching or wish to gain fresh ideas and a formal qualification after several years’ experience of children’s classes. This 50 hour+ course provides an extensive overview of teaching younger learners and teenagers, aged 4-16 years.

IHCYL Course Content

The course consists of:

Input Sessions

20 sessions of approximately one hour and 15 minutes each, amounting to 30 hours of input time. This will also include observation and analysis of videos of YL classes.

Teaching Practice

Each participant will be observed teaching Young Learners classes by an approved tutor for a minimum of 3 hours. These classes may be the teacher's own classes or special Teaching Practice classes created for the course. There will be a minimum of 45 minutes tuition time (pre-lesson guidance and post-lesson feedback) given for each hour of teaching.

Observation of experienced teachers

Each participant will observe experienced teachers of Young Learners teaching for a minimum of 4 hours. For each of the hours of observation, participants must complete an assigned observation task.

Tutorials

Each participant will be given a minimum of two tutorials which will involve the discussion of observation tasks and the trainees' general progression up that point of the course.

Written work

Each participant will need to complete two written assignments. These will be set and submitted during the course. A third optional assignment for a further endorsement of the trainee's experience, will be set during the course but can be submitted up to two years from completion of the course. In addition, there may be homework tasks set after some input sessions.

Age groups

The course is not designed with one particular age group in mind. Input sessions cover the complete range of young learners (from 3 years-teenagers). Teaching Practice will be concentrate on two or three particular age ranges ...