Language for resilience: Teaching English to refugees and displaced learners

Welcome to 'Language for resilience: Teaching English to refugees and displaced learners

As part of our programme to recognise and celebrate World Refugee Day on 20 June, join our Language for Resilience online course for teachers. Throughout the course you will learn effective strategies and techniques to help make your classroom a safe environment. You will learn about the following:

• How to create a trauma-sensitive learning environment
• How to work with limited resources
• How to manage challenging behaviour.

About the course

Module 1: An introduction to trauma and its effects on the classroom

By the end of this module, you will:

• be able to define trauma and understand its possible causes
• be able to reflect on the effects on learning and behaviour in the classroom through examples of students and consider the role of the teacher in endings and transitions
• learn some interesting ways to create physical and emotional safety through basic strategies

Module 2: Teaching with minimal resources

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• identify the resources available in the classroom.
• use a variety of activities when teaching with limited resources and adapt an activity for a particular teaching context
• analyse the advantages and disadvantages of different activities and be more resourceful when faced with a low-resource context

Module 3: Dealing with very challenging behaviour

By the end of this module, you will:

• be able to understand behaviour as a communication of need – asking what has happened to you rather than what’s wrong with you.
• be able to recognise unconscious defence mechanisms: breaking negative patterns of interaction: choosing a different response.
• learn some practical classroom strategies to manage meaningful communication and interactions.

Start dates and duration

This course will be available again in 2023.

Cost

Free

Certificates

For participants who successfully complete all tasks and achieve a score of 70% or above in the online exercises, there will be a downloadable certificate of completion at the end of the course.

Level of English required

Minimum CEFR B1

How do I access the course after I have enrolled?
 

On a desktop or laptop computer

1. Log in to your free TeachingEnglish account.
2. If you have enrolled in the course, you will see 'MY PORTFOLIO' in the menu bar at the top of the page next to the Home button.
3. Move your mouse over MY PORTFOLIO to see the drop-down menu.
4. Click on ‘My courses’ to access your training.

On a mobile device

1. Log in to your free TeachingEnglish account.
2. Tap the three horizontal lines next to the home button to open the menu.
3. Below ‘Home’, you will see MY PORTFOLIO and ‘My courses’ below. Tap on MY PORTFOLIO if you don’t see ‘My courses’.
4. Tap on ‘My courses’ to access your training.

Support and troubleshooting

If you have signed up for this course and have problems accessing your learning, please make sure you are logged in, then click or tap the link below:

https://open.teachingenglish.org.uk/Home/MyProgrammes

If you are still having problems accessing your course, please see the advice below:

Problem

I can't register for the course

Possible solution

Please make sure you have created a free account or that you are logged in to your existing account. If registration is available, you will see instructions for 'How do I register for this course?' at the top of this page. If registration is not available, you will see the message 'This course is not available for registration'.

Problem

I can't access the course. I am logged in to my account, but when I click or tap 'My courses' from MY PORTFOLIO I just go to my profile page. 

Possible solution

Check that you are not logged into your TeachingEnglish account on a different device or browser. Log out of your account on all devices and browsers, and log in again. Click or tap 'My courses' from MY PORTFOLIO. You should be taken to your training course. If you still can't access your course, log out, clear the cache on your browser and log in again.

Important: 

Our courses have a start and end date. After the end date of the course, the material will not be available.

Problem

I can't get my certificate

Possible solution

Certificates are available to participants who complete 70% of the course material. To access your certificate, go to the course platform where you have done your training. Click or tap 'My awards'. If you have completed 70% of the course, your certificate should be available to download.