Decide on the continuous professional development (CPD) courses that best suit you and your institution’s needs. These 5-day courses can be combined* to allow you to get the best skills and knowledge match for your context. We offer 5-day courses in:

• Advanced classroom management and techniques
• Phonology
• Approaches and methodology
• Technology in the class room
• How to teach exam classes
• Teaching 1 to 1 and small groups
• Principals and practice in action in TEFL

 *Note: These courses can be combined to create your own tailored 2-week course.

• All of these short CPD (Continuing Professional Development) courses are eligible for Erasmus + funding
• Support during the application process
• Pre-course information will be provided to further orient participants to the nature of the course and suggested reading and videos set to maximise face-to-face class time
• Qualified and experienced teacher trainers with a passion for best practice and innovation in the classroom
• A balance of theoretical and hands-on practical activities as well as catering to different learning preferences
• Courses consist of a range of tasks including observations of experienced staff, ways of giving feedback, peer teaching and homework assignments
• The loop input model will allow participants to experience activities and games that they can transfer and adapt to their own classroom settings
• The opportunity to join an online community to ensure that learning can continue beyond the classroom and the end of the course
• 2 classrooms equipped for students with reduced mobility and our IWBs allow us to increase font sizes for students with visual impairment
• 3 excursions with each course to give participants the full experience of Malta
• Certificate of attendance and completion of the Europass Mobility form to add to the Europass CV (participants need to request the Europass Mobility from their National Agency)

Maximum number of participants – 12.

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the course, participants will:

• have observed experienced teachers and reflected on what constitutes good classroom practice
• have improved their boardwork skills
• be able to use instruction cycles clear and consistently
• have widened their repertoire of activities for use in the classroom and for homework
• be able to provide a higher quality of feedback to their students
• have an action plan for their continued development post-course

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the course, participants will:

• have looked at the theory of how sounds are made
• be confident using the phonemic chart
• have increased awareness of individual sounds, features of connected speech, word stress rules, sentence stress and intonation
• have practised transcribing spoken language
• have experienced a number of practical classroom activities to help their students improve their pronunciation
• be able to integrate pronunciation as a regular feature of classroom practice.

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the course, participants will:

• have covered the main approaches in the teaching of English
• be able to identify where different aspects of classroom practice evolve from
• have experienced a number of these in the classroom setting
• have evaluated their pros and cons and suitability for the teacher’s own context

The Erasmus+ programme provides funding for activities in education, training, youth and sport in all sectors of Lifelong Learning (Higher Education, Further Education, adult education, schools, youth activities etc) for the period 2014 - 2020.There a large number of funding proposals on offer, which means more opportunities for you. KA 1 (Key Action 1) supports the mobility of learners and staff, giving teachers, trainers, volunteers and staff of educational institutions the chance to experience a learning/professional experience in another country. Under this action, it is the organisation, school, university or college that applies for funding and not the individual teacher. (See how to apply)

Erasmus+ funding can help with funding towards course fees, travel costs, accommodation and other living costs for individual teachers and groups of teachers and educators who would like to travel to Malta to participate in our professional development courses.

Under Key Action 1, individuals cannot apply directly for a grant. Your organisation, school, university or college must apply. Contact the person responsible for staff development within your school and ask them to submit the application for you.Your organisation must submit a training and development plan for either 1 or 2 years in line with the EU 2020 Education, Training, Youth and Sport Proposal requesting a grant. Ask if your organisation is already registered with a PIC.Identify which course(s) fulfil your training objectives.Before filling in your funding application, the person responsible for funding must ensure that:

1. Your school, college, university or institute is registered in the Unique Registration Facility (URF).
2. Your school will be given a PIC (Personal Identification Code) number.
3. The school, college, university or institute must then submit your application with the National Agency. The funding application must be under Key Action 1 (Mobility of individuals in the field of education, training and youth).

You can download your application from your National Agencies.