Diploma in Young Learners Teaching

The best ESL jobs available today worldwide are for teaching young learners. It's the most challenging segment to teach yet most rewarding. This is the comprehensive online Young Learners Teaching qualification run by latest technologies which provides promising ESL teaching career and preparing teachers to teach young learners, preschoolers and primary students emphasizing on teaching conversation English. This is a 100 hrs Online Online program developed and moderated by leading ESL teachers.

Duration and Course Content

The Diploma in Young Learners Teaching Online program is a combination of two modules. Stage one is Young Learners English Teaching followed by stage two of equipping you with knowledge of all latest Techniques, Methodologies and designs in ESL teaching. TESOL YL Teaching Diploma course consists of detailed and structured phases which furnishes you with the advanced ESL teaching skills and techniques and help you groom yourself as an efficient teacher.

YOUNG LEARNERS TEACHING MODULES

Phase 1: The Learner

Teaching ESL to children is not merely a matter of setting them loose on a plethora of authentic language tasks in the classroom. To successfully teach children a language requires specific skills and intuitions that differ from those appropriate for adult teaching.

Language learning and language acquisition

• The Hypothesis
• The Difference between learning and acquisition
• Assignment

How do children learn English

• Practical approaches to teaching children
• The levels
• Language Development and context
• Assignment

Phase 2: The Skills

For decades English language teaching has identified the “four skills” – listening, speaking, reading and writing – of paramount importance. Listening and reading are considered to be receptive skills while speaking and writing as productive. Though at times these are taught in separate segments but there is a recent trend to integrate the skills. The language learners discover the differences and the interrelationship among these primary skills.

Teaching Listening

• The importance of listening in the classroom
• Listening activities
• Self - Assignment

Teaching Speaking

• Speaking in the classroom
• Student talk
• Introducing language
• Activities
• Self – Assignment

Teaching Reading

• Approaches to reading
• Building confidence
• Different Material
• Assignment

Teaching Writing

• Pre writing task
• Activities
• Some more ideas
• Assignment

Phase 3: Actual Teaching

Actual training begins when you are in the classroom. The subject matter that the teacher teaches is only one piece of the puzzle. There is a lot more that goes on in the classroom and outside it that affects the teaching and learning process.

How to handle mixed groups

• Mixed groups
• Helpful strategies
• Group work
• Assignment

Class Management

• The teacher
• The room
• Rules
• Working in groups
• Self-Assignment – not to be submitted

Lesson Planning

• The need to plan
• Different ways of planning
• The framework
• When things go wrong
• Assignment

Phase 4: Tools

Teacher- centered approaches fail to treat the children as ‘whole’ people. The teaching is usually rational and is primarily aimed at the children’s intellect. There is an assumption that real learning occurs when the children are serious. How wrong this is!!

aterials in the classroom

• Things to make
• Things to buy
• Assignment

Stories, games, songs, chants

• How to use stories
• Games – some ideas
• The importance of songs and chants
• Self-Assignments – not to be submitted

Phase 5: That’s right!

Correction and evaluation are important components in the educational world. In every learning experience there comes a time to pause and take stock, to put our focal processes to their best use and to demonstrate skills and knowledge. Unfortunately students view this process of correction and evaluation with a lot of apprehension and it is up to us as teachers to make it a positive experience.

Correction techniques

• Look at error differently
• Ways of error correction
• Assignment

Evaluation techniques

• The meaning
• Purpose
• Formative assessment
• The continuous system
• Assignment

STUDY AND RESEARCH MODULE

A brief history of ELT

• Syllabus Design
• Methodology
• Assessment Methods
• Research Work