Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes

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Important Information

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Please note that this online course has fixed start dates.
Start dates for 2010:

April 12th 2010-- June 4th 2010 (8 weeks)
October 18th 2010-- December 10th 2010 (8 weeks)

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Course Details

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Course Description

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Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes

Our five-module Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes course is suitable for teachers who are engaged in helping students write in English more fluently and accurately.

It is particularly relevant to teachers of examinations classes such as FCE and CAE, and also to teachers of English for academic purposes.

Course content
Course content includes:

* Approaches to writing: process, product and genre
* Paragraphing and sentence types
* Punctuation
* Coherence
* Cohesion
* Correction of written work

This is a very practical course in which you will be asked to experiment in your classroom with the ideas and materials provided on the course then report your findings to your fellow course participants and peers for discussion and evaluation.

Feedback:
Thanks for running a superb course. I have really enjoyed it and am sad to see it end. I feel I have greatly benefitted from this course and your comments

Louisa C, Lisbon (Portugal)

Start Dates
Given the nature of online courses, although we recommend you to begin on one of the start dates given, it is possible for "late starters" to catch up quite quickly, within the first module of the course.

Note that courses will not begin unless there is a minimum of four participants.

Length & time commitment
It is notoriously difficult to predict exactly how many hours an online course will take any given student. For our courses, we believe you should estimate at least minimum 2.5 hours per module for the reading and completion of the tasks set, giving around 25 hours minimum for this particular course.

That estimate excludes the amount of class time you use for experimenting with the ideas and material from the course.

You should aim to complete each course module within 7 to 10 days.

Your tutors
The course tutors are all International House Barcelona CELTA and/or DELTA course tutors with many years of teaching and teacher training experience.


There is a 10% discount for those who have followed a prior Teacher Training course at IH Barcelona.

Certification
Candidates will be awarded an International House Barcelona Online Training Certificate at the end of the course.

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School Details - Online (Barcelona)

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Courses in the online Teacher Development series are delivered by distance, using our virtual classroom on the IH Barcelona Online Training site.

Our online classroom uses Moodle, the world's fastest growing e-learning platform.

The courses all operate in the same way: they are divided into modules (between five and ten), each of which is concerned with a different topic. Each module includes tasks for you to complete and materials and ideas to take into your classes.

It should take you approximately two and a half hours to complete the tasks for each module: the timetable for each module is seven to ten days. Of course you are free to spend as much class time as you wish experimenting with the materials with your students.

Once you have tried out the ideas in class we ask you to post your result on the forum for that module. This forum is a chance for you to discuss your findings with your fellow course participants and with your tutors.

There will also be one assignment for you to complete at the end of the course which you will email to your tutor for comment. This requires you to formalise the results of your experimentation in the classroom in a short essay format.

Each course includes an introductory section which guides and instructs you in using the online learning system. There is also a social forum in this introductory section which you are free to use for informal discussion on any topic you choose.

All materials required for each course are available in the course modules; we also include a glossary of terminology used during the course.

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How to Apply

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1. Select your course below
2. Register your details with Cactus TEFL (1 minute) to help us track your application.
3. Download the application form and save it on your computer.
4. Complete it offline in your own time
5. Go back to www.cactustefl.com, sign in and submit your completed form.
4. You will be sent your course joining details and payment information

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Prices

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