Teacher Training and Teacher Education (Courses and Programmes in central London and online)
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish
Teacher Training Skills:
Impact Education offers teacher training programmes to improve teaching skills and Professional Development Programmes (CPD) for Modern Languages teachers, lecturers and educators in other contexts. We create bespoke solutions for newly qualified as well as experienced teachers, across a number of professional fields, including Modern Languages, Government and Diplomatic Services, International schools worldwide. Impact can also support organisations and schools in developing quality practices and curricula for their teachers.
Our teacher training programmes involve reflection on the professional practice of teaching – the honing of skills and knowledge to make the experience of language instruction and learning memorable for students and understanding how to encourage dialogue in their own communities. At Impact we seek to enable educators to teach in real-life contexts in a myriad of rewarding and enriching ways.
Our staff are not just language teachers, they are also experts in Modern Languages, multi lingual educators, and teacher trainers. Impact is able to tap into a global network of Modern Languages teachers and trainers with many instructors boasting extensive experience teaching in schools and universities across the UK, the US and the Middle East.
OUR TRAINING PORTFOLIO: In the same way that the seed of language learning is within us all, so too is the seed of teaching. This idea is reflected in the design and delivery of our teacher training skills and development programme. These 60-hour courses, spread over three weeks including online learning, are practical in nature and focus throughout on the skills, activities and knowledge required by teachers to work effectively with students in a language classroom.
Incorporating group discussions, demonstration lessons and microteaching, we prefer to avoid top-down, lecture-based methods, preferring to acknowledge that trainee teachers themselves have much to add to the process, regardless of level of experience and qualifications.
Our Programmes for teachers are:
Creative Approaches and Techniques to Language Teaching and Learning
In this programme teachers will learn about creative approaches, techniques, and skills for the teaching of languages; they will apply these to the language they teach and use these new approaches with their students in the language classroom with lots of on-hand practice, innovative and creative activities. The programme will provide innovative ideas and creative techniques that teachers can use in their classroom practices.
Certificate in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) Programme in Dubai
Join our innovative programme of excellence in Teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) for an opportunity to build a career in teaching Arabic worldwide. This specialised teacher training programme will run intensively over 6 weeks face to face and extended to another 4 weeks online in London and in Dubai or run for international schools over two academic terms.
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language programme (TAFL)
Our innovative and highly practical TAFL programme combines the theory of teaching Arabic as a foreign language with observed and assessed teaching practice with real learners of Arabic.
This course develops the particular teacher qualities, skills and knowledge needed for teaching Arabic at universities, higher and further education institutes, and language centres.
We support you in developing into the kind of teacher that is right for both you and your students through the following key components: 60 hours of stimulating workshops and seminars related to Arabic language teaching methodology delivered by experienced teacher education specialists, plus teaching practice for novice teachers, combined with guided planning and supportive feedback sessions.
Teaching English as a foreign language programme (TEFL)
Our innovative and highly practical TEFL programme combines the theory of teaching English as a foreign language with observed and assessed teaching practice with real learners of English.
This course develops the particular teacher qualities, skills and knowledge needed for teaching English at universities, higher and further education institutes and language centres.
We support you in developing into the kind of teacher that is right for both you and your students through the following key components: 60 hours of stimulating workshops and seminars related to English language teaching methodology delivered by experienced teacher education specialists, plus teaching practice for novice teachers, combined with guided planning and supportive feedback sessions.
Teaching of MFL languages programme (TMFL)
Our innovative and highly practical TMFL programme combines the theory of teaching a foreign language with observed and assessed teaching practice with real learners of the target language.
This course develops the particular teacher qualities, skills and knowledge needed for teaching foreign languages at universities, higher and further education institutes and language centres.
We support you in developing into the kind of teacher that is right for both you and your students through the following key components: 60 hours of stimulating workshops and seminars related to language teaching methodology delivered by experienced teacher education specialists, plus teaching practice for novice teachers, combined with guided planning and supportive feedback sessions.
Teaching less widely taught languages programme (TLWL)
Our innovative and highly practical TLWL programme combines the theory of teaching community and world languages as a foreign language with observed and assessed teaching practice with real learners.
This course develops the particular teacher qualities, skills and knowledge needed for teaching community and world languages at universities, higher and further education institutes and language centres.
We support you in developing into the kind of teacher that is right for both you and your students through the following key components: 60 hours of stimulating workshops and seminars related to community and world language teaching methodology delivered by experienced teacher education specialists, plus teaching practice for novice teachers, combined with guided planning and supportive feedback sessions.
Professional Development (PD) & Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programmes
Impact strives to develop teacher-training programmes customised to the needs of each institution with whom we work. To this end, we conduct a period of observation of the teachers working within their own classrooms before we create and finalise the course content. We encourage teacher self-reflection through peer observation, videoing of their own classes and participation in online discussions through our Web platform, emphasising that the course itself is simply the beginning of a process of professional development.
Schools, Universities and organisations, please contact us to tailor our language teacher training into your needs.