Develop your ability to help learners improve their speaking and communication skills. This unit explores essential knowledge and skills for teaching speaking online. As well as advice on how to develop learners' speaking skills in an online environment, videos of real teachers in real classrooms, accompanied by professional commentary and guided observation tasks, focus your learning and reflection. You will also be guided through the evaluation of tools and techniques that you can use in your own online classrooms. By identifying key techniques for developing learners’ speaking skills in an in-person classroom and then showing how these can be adapted and supplemented in an online classroom, this unit gives you practical and reliable ideas for developing your learners’ speaking skills in an online lesson. Intended learning outcomes You will: Assess some key principles of teaching speaking skills Evaluate techniques and strategies that allow teachers to apply these principles in an online environment Identify elements of best practice through observation of real online speaking lessons Define what makes an effective online speaking skills lesson This is a three-hour, self-study unit designed to be completed at a time convenient to you. You can access the training at any time and you don’t need to do all three hours at once – you can re-enter the training as often as you like for 12 months. Written using a CEFR B2 language level, you will still benefit from the course if your level is below B2, but you may take longer to complete the unit. As well as interactive tasks, this unit includes an optional ‘teacher portfolio task’, to help consolidate your knowledge and demonstrate your learning. Access is for 12 months from date of purchase and includes a Trinity College London e-certificate of completion. Technical requirements To access the training resources, you will need: A desktop or laptop computer A reliable internet connection Headphones or speakers (built-in or external) For more detailed information on this, please check these system requirements.
