Teaching pathways: Skills for remote teaching

Welcome to 'Teaching pathways: Skills for remote teaching'

In this practical five-week course, you will develop the skills you need for remote teaching and reflect on how they relate to your learners’ learning. You will learn about different approaches to remote teaching and consider what factors make the transition from the physical to online classroom successful.

You will explore:

• planning and adapting materials
• managing learning for remote teaching
• assessment and how it can impact on motivation
• flipped, cooperative and game-based learning.

About the course
 

Module 1: Understanding remote teaching

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

• understand common terminology used in remote teaching
• identify useful approaches used by remote teachers, such as flipped learning and game-based learning
• be encouraged to  reflect on your own teaching, how learners learn online and how you teach remotely
• better help and safeguard your learners when learning remotely  
• help parents and caregivers to support remote learning at home.

Module 2: Planning and adapting materials

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

• take a practical approach to planning the content you use and how to adapt it for remote teaching
• understand how to develop writing skills online
• plan a speaking lesson for the remote classroom
• Make the most of receptive skills (listening, reading) in the remote classroom
• use a range of techniques to overcome some of the common issues when teaching remotely
• reduce barriers to access and engagement and make your materials more accessible

Module 3: Managing learning

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

• reflect on classroom management and think about the skills you use when teaching face-to-face and how to transfer them to teach remotely
• learn strategies to effectively manage and give feedback to learners online
• make informed decisions about digital tools and resources to use to enhance your teaching
• more effectively manage your own professional development and decide which areas of your teaching you want to improve 
• better monitor and improve your work–life balance. 

Module 4: Assessing and motivating learning 

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

• understand different kinds of assessment and reflect on your own assessment methods.
• explore remote assessment tasks for different linguistic skills.
• understand how motivation impacts assessment.
• become familiar with the use of digital portfolios  
• explore peer and self-assessment as part of assessment for learning and learning how to learn.

Start dates and duration

This course is not currently available. Future course dates will be announced later this year

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