Teaching English to refugees and displaced learners

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Welcome to 'Teaching English to refugees and displaced learners'


How will the course help you?

Make your classroom a trauma-sensitive learning environment. Help your learners to shine by working creatively with limited resources and by managing challenging behaviour positively.


What does the course include?

Teaching English to refugees and displaced learners is a free self-study training course, which is divided into three hour modules. It also includes:

  • A dedicated Facebook community of course participants with up-to-date insight, resources and innovative ideas for you to try out.
  • Engaging discussions taking place in the Facebook community
  • Live events with your course tutor and language teaching experts.
  • A free workbook with extra learning content and resources.

What will you learn?

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

This module introduces the effects of trauma on learning and behaviour in the classroom. You'll also explore strategies for supporting learners' physical and emotional safety during lessons.

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

- give a definition of trauma and list the main types of trauma which can affect learners in your classrooms
- recognise the effects of certain types of trauma on learning and behaviour in your classrooms
- create physical and emotional safety for these learners in your classroom through practical teaching strategies.

Module 2: Teaching with minimal resources

This module explores ways of using learners as a teaching resource, through creativity, personalisation and learner-generated resources.

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

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

Module 3: Dealing with very challenging behaviour

This module provides practical trauma-informed classroom strategies to manage distressed behaviour.

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

- recognise that behaviour is a communication of need and that challenging behaviour can be viewed as distressed behaviour
- explain the links between trauma and some types of behaviour
- create physical and emotional safety for these learners in your classroom through practical teaching strategies
- implement some practical trauma-informed classroom strategies to manage distressed behaviour.


When is the course?

Enrolment for 'Teaching English to refugees and displaced learners' is now closed. Sign up to the free newsletter to keep up to date on when our courses open.


How much does the course cost?

The course is free.


How can you get a certificate?

You will receive a certificate if you successfully complete all self-study modules.


What level of English do you need?

Minimum CEFR B1


What can you do now?

If you're interested in learning more about teaching English to refugees and displaced learners, you can:

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/11/2022 - 07:10

Hi neha,
Glad to hear you are interested in the course. It starts on the 7th June and you'll be able to access the materials from then. To enrol, follow the instructions on the course page on the 7th or after:
STEP 1: Create a free account or log in to your existing account. You need to be logged in to visit the course website.
STEP 2: After you have logged in, visit our course website to see all available courses.
STEP 3: Enrol on your free course
STEP 4: Start learning when the course begins
Hope you enjoy the course!
Anne TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Neha Gupta on Tue, 05/10/2022 - 10:08

How do I register for the course?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 05/07/2022 - 20:24

In reply to by firooz-amiri

Hi firooz-amiri,
Glad to hear you are interested in the course. It starts on the 7th June and you'll be able to access the materials from then. To enrol, follow the instructions on the course page on the 7th or after:
STEP 1: Create a free account or log in to your existing account. You need to be logged in to visit the course website.
STEP 2: After you have logged in, visit our course website to see all available courses.
STEP 3: Enrol on your free course
STEP 4: Start learning when the course begins
Anne TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Aledan on Wed, 05/04/2022 - 21:29

I would like to help people who need to communicate and keep continuous with their lives in a positive way.

Submitted by hollygately on Wed, 05/04/2022 - 10:31

What time is the course? Our staff will be working until the afternoon

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 05/05/2022 - 20:44

In reply to by hollygately

Hi Hollygately,
All our courses are made up of self-access modules so that teachers from any time zone can complete the courses when they are free. There are some 'live sessions' to support the group with the topics they are learning about and they may be at times your teachers are working, but they are all recorded and they can watch them online later.
Hope your teachers enjoy the course!
Anne
TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Erna on Wed, 05/04/2022 - 10:30

i would like to join the course

Submitted by Magdalen on Mon, 05/02/2022 - 11:31

I currently work in the UK and our school day doesn't end till 4pm.
Will I be able to access this programme at the end of my working day as I can't watch videos or live feeds during class times

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 05/05/2022 - 20:39

In reply to by Magdalen

Hi Magdalen,
You can access the 'self-access' part of the course when it suits you best, and the live sessions are recorded and available online not long after they finish, so you'll be able to access them after your school days. Hope you find the course interesting and useful :).
Anne
TeachingEnglish team

Hi again ( I think I answered a later question about this already, but just in case: we don't have confirmation of course dates yet - we have confirmation of the next three MOOCS 

Teaching pathways: Online skills for 21st century teachers   July 19th start 

Teaching pathways: How to teach grammar  September course - link available soon 

Professional development pathways: Action research for teachers - October course - link available soon

Course dates are published a couple of months in advance, hope you don't have to wait too long!!

Anne

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/31/2022 - 21:37

In reply to by Jomana Ammar

Hi Jomana,

If you are teaching English, I hope you find the course useful. If you want to find resources that you can use to learn English then also try the learners' resources on this page, look for general resources under the 'skills' 'grammar' or 'vocabulary' pages.

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/

Best regards,

Anne

TeachingEnglish team

 

Submitted by Hashem7 on Mon, 06/06/2022 - 20:25

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I'm new with this platform and I'm up of learning and discovering the teaching world

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/08/2022 - 16:14

In reply to by Hashem7

Hi Hashem7,

Welcome and I hope you discover a lot!

Anne

TeachingEnglish team

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