IH Dubai are pleased to announce our Continuing Professional Development Programme 2010 - helping language teachers enhance their existing teaching skills and raising the quality of language teaching in the region.
All teachers are welcome.
The following sessions are scheduled for 2010:
Guided Discovery
We all know that what we ‘tell’ students isn’t necessarily what they ‘learn’. In this session we’ll look at ways of improving the learning experience by getting students to work things out themselves. We will explore practical ways of leading learners to an understanding of the language without tangling yourself up in convoluted lectures on the target language.
Special Guest Presentation
Many of you will know Jeremy Harmer – world renowned teacher, teacher-trainer and author of quintessential language teaching methodology books: “The Practice of English Language Teaching” and “How to Teach English” amongst others. Jeremy Harmer has a long history with the International House World Organisation and will give a special presentation at IH Dubai. Don’t miss out!
Using Drama in the Classroom
Ever wondered how the teachers who use drama in the classroom do it?? This is where you will find out. Here you will look at a variety of ways to integrate drama into the language teaching classroom and enhance learners’ experience of language and learning in general.
Imbroving Bronunciation
Are your Arabic speaking students making classic pronunciation errors in their speaking? This session will give you useful insights into common pronunciation issues for Arabic speaking learners, and will explore ideas and techniques teachers can use for both raising students’ awareness of these issues and helping to improve their oral language.
Practical Exam Skills
Are your students too lazy to revise? This session will show you how as teachers you can get your students to use their brainpower to excel at exams. It will also look at the importance of time-keeping and regular exam practice, and show you how students can use their revision time more efficiently and effectively.
Modality
What is it?! This session will provide an overview of how modality functions in the English language. As an essential area of grammar that perplexes many students and teachers alike, the session will help you sort out the basic phonological, syntactical and semantic properties of modals and explore way we can clarify this for our learners.
Task Based Learning
Here you will learn how to flip your language lesson upside down! This session will introduce TBL as a methodological approach/technique and show language development as a result of a real-life task, rather than the traditional presentation of language items before practice exercises. In this session, we will see how to bring language lessons alive by drawing on real life situations to foster language development.
Vocabulary Teaching
In this session we will look at practical examples of ways to help students learn and remember vocabulary. We’ll also review what it means to ‘know’ a word and how this impacts on our teaching.
Teaching Literacy
It’s not just reading and writing. 91% Literacy in Kerala--Wow! So what does that mean anyway, and what does it mean to teach literacy? We'll look at various components of literacy education that include skills like phonolgical awareness, symbol recognition and decoding among others.
Surprise Session
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Is there anything you’re burning to find out more about?? Let us know your thoughts and we’ll put together a seminar/workshop on whichever topic area receives the most requests. It’s YOUR opportunity to have a say in your professional development programme. Email us on teachertraining@ihdubai.com or call +971 4 321 3121
Our 2009 workshops included:
USING IMAGERY IN THE CLASSROOM TO ENHANCE LEARNING 
“A picture is worth a thousand words” – an effective teacher knows how to apply this to their teaching as well. This workshop will look at how we can use visual aids from different types of media to generate and sustain engagement, minimize teacher talking time in the classroom, make learning more effective and memorable, and enhance learners’ experiences of language overall.
PHONOLOGY 101 /hævi?tr?b?lri?di??ð?s/
Having trouble reading this?
Then this is a session for you! Many teachers feel daunted by dealing directly with pronunciation in the classroom. This session will provide an overview of a whole range of features of pronunciation and look at some basic techniques for how we as teachers can help students improve their pronunciation. December 19th 2009
COURSEBOOK – FRIEND OR FOE? 
The coursebook can be a teacher’s best friend, but it can also be their worst enemy. They provide an organized structure to learning and professional looking materials which cut down our preparation time, but over-reliance on the coursebook can make for predictable, uninteractive lessons with content and activities that often don’t reflect the needs, interests and backgrounds of an individual group of learners. In this session we will show you how to lift lessons from the page by managing coursebooks more effectively and selecting, adapting, rejecting and supplementing published coursebooks with other material from a variety of media to enhance the learning process and more effectively cater to our learners’ needs.
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