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TeachingEnglish: Organising the classroom

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How will the course help you?

By the end of Organising the classroom, you’ll be able to:

  • use classroom boards confidently and creatively to enhance language learning
  • identify and implement effective strategies for classroom interaction, as well as for starting and ending lessons smoothly
  • plan and manage classroom interaction, physical space and resources to support a positive and engaging learning environment.

What does the course include?

  • Self-study modules that you can access at any time before the course closes
  • A certificate of achievement on successful completion of the self-study modules
  • A free workbook with extra learning content and resources connected to the course contents
  • A dedicated Facebook community of course participants with up-to-date insight, resources and innovative teaching ideas for you to try out (Facebook account required)
  • Learning content related to our courses on Facebook and YouTube
  • Live events and recordings with course tutors and language teaching experts on Facebook and YouTube

What are the self-study modules?

Module 1 – Understanding board work

The aim of this module is to provide an understanding of board work and how boards can be used effectively in the classroom. You will consider how to organise a board to help learning, think of solutions to common issues with boards as well as discuss how learners can be more involved at the board.

Module 2 – Social language in the classroom

The aim of this module is to explore how to develop and promote social language in class. It also considers effective strategies for starting and finishing lessons. You will identify elements and phrases that can be used to start a lesson, discuss how to promote social language using informal conversation as well as choose techniques to help learners to interact more confidently.

Module 3 – Managing interaction and resources

The aim of this module is to look at how to manage classrooms through interaction, and it also looks at resources to support learning. It explores a range of interaction patterns, including pair work and group work, and how to manage them. You will select interaction patterns based on activity type, use different ways of grouping in different classroom layouts as well as plan for the management of interaction, space and resources.

Course reviews

What have other teachers said about how Organising the classroom helped them?

"The course emphasizes that you don’t need a high-tech smart classroom to be effective. the organization is about maximizing the resources you already have. It teaches teachers to be resourceful rather than resource-dependent."

Course participant, Ecuador

"It gives me ideas of what we should and shouldn’t do for learners especially when managing younger learner. It never came to mind about how they may feel intimidated once they are assigned in a group work. This course helps me discover more about learner of how we should and shouldn’t organize the class"

Course participant, Indonesia

"It gave me knowledge about careful organisation of classroom through use different activities and resources. Prior to this, I rarely thought about this. But now I know how I can improve my classroom organization for better learning experience."

Course participant, Pakistan

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I can't enroll in this course.

Hi 

Thanks for your comment and sorry to hear that you are having problems enrolling. 

When you click/tap on the 'Enrol on this free course’ button above, you should be taken to our courses platform, and be able to see a list of all our currently available courses. We did have a technical issue on the site last week so could you try again now? Depending on your connection it might take a few seconds for the page to open. 

If you are still having issues, please write to us at TeachingEnglish@britishcouncil.org and send a screenshot of what you are seeing, so that we can try to resolve the issue ASAP.

Thanks,

Cath
TeachingEnglish team

Good day! I can not enroll to the courses? Why is that so? Or has the enrollment time finished already?

Hi samalmakhmetova

Thanks for your message. The course is still open for enrollment. Can you try clicking on the button again now?

If you are taken to the 'My courses’ page, just click on the 'Enrol on free courses’ button - then you will see a list of all our currently available courses and can click to enrol. Hope that helps -please let us know if you are still having problems.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

How can get certificate

Hi Fatima79

You will receive a certificate of completion when you have successfully completed all three modules on the course. The certificate will appear under 'My awards - My certificates’. If you have any problems, please use the 'Help’ button on the courses page.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hello, please does the certificate have a validity period, that is how long is it valid for.

HI Danteh

Thanks for your message. Our certificates don’t have a validity period, they just include the date that you completed the course.

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hello. How can I submit my workbook?

Hi there

The workbook is for you to work through yourself and to help you reflect on the course content- you don’t need to submit it.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

how do i start the course?? what is the procedure

Hi

To enrol on the course, click on the 'Enrol in this free course’ button above. This will take you to our courses page - there you need to click/tap the 'Enrol in courses’ button. Scroll down the page - you will see all our currently available courses. Then you just need to click to join this one. You can then access the modules and work through them in your own time.

Please let us know if you are still having problems.

Thanks

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Is this course currently available?

Hi mimu

Thanks for your comment - yes, this course is currently available. Click/tap the 'Enrol in this free course button’. This will take you to our courses platform - if you then click on 'Enrol in courses’, you will see all our available courses and you can click to join the ones that you want - scroll down the page to see them all.

Hope that helps - please let me know if you need more guidance.

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

The workbook is intended for independent study and reflection on the course content and does not need to be submitted

Hi and I'm interested in these courses. I hope I can be a good teacher by studying there.

Hi XiaoYating

Feel free to sign up - just click on the purple 'Enrol in this free course’ button above.

Hope you enjoy the course,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi everyone.
I can not enter. Can You help me?

Hi Mar1208

Thanks for your comment. 

To enrol in the course, click on the 'Enrol in this free course’ button above. This will take you to our learning platform. Then click on 'Enrol on courses’ - you will need to scroll down the page - this course is at the bottom - you can then click to enrol. Next time you log in this course will appear in 'My Portfolio - my courses’ along with your other courses.

Hope that helps - please let us know if you are still having problems.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Help me to register this course

Hi Rajdev

Thanks for your message - to register for the course, click on the purple button 'Enrol in this free course’ above. This will take you to our courses platform. There, you can click/tap 'Enrol in courses’. You will see a list of all our currently available courses. You might need to scroll down the page to find this course. Then just click 'Enrol in activity’. From then on, the course will appear under 'My Portfolio - my courses’ each time you log in to your TeachingEnglish account.

Hope that helps - you can also check our FAQs page for more information: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training/courses/training-courses-faqs

Let us know if you are still having issues.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Dear Sirs, I am encountering problems to log in into this course. Regards

Thanks for your comment. We experienced a technical issue yesterday and some people were not able to access their courses - this is now resolved. Can you try again? If you are still having problems, please contact the technical team using the 'Help’ button.

Thank you,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi, I was busy these days so I cannot keep in touch with the course. I have seen that the course have been opened in about a week ago, can I join it now ?
Many thanks.

Hi,

Yes, this course is now open! 

To access the modules, just click/tap 'My Porfolio - my courses’ - you will see the course there if you are already enrolled. You can complete the modules in your own time.

Hope that helps,
Cath

TeachingEnglish team

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Hope it is will be helpful

Would love to join

Hi Sousam

Thanks for your message.

This new course opens on 7 January. You can enrol now by clicking on the purple button above. Then when you click on 'My Portfolio - my courses’ you will see the course on the 'closed’ tab. On January 7th you will be able to access the course modules. 

Hope that helps, and hope you enjoy the course when it starts!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Yes i would like to join this cours

HI sheroo

To join this course, you just need to click the 'Click to join this free course’ button above. That will take you to our courses page where you can click to enrol and then access the modules.

Hope you enjoy it!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

It was really helpful.

Hi and I’m glad you are interested in courses. Have a look at the courses page. There’s a video to explain about them and if you scroll down you can see the courses open now and get information about registering an account  and enrolling on a course. 

Best regards,

Anne

TeachingEnglish team
 

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I would like to begin registering for the course to obtain the certificate. What are the procedures?

What do l have to do to get the certificate

Hi @Englishteacher

All of our free courses are self-access - so you can enrol and then complete the modules in your own time. Once you have completed all the modules in the course, your certificate will appear under the 'My awards - my certificates’ tab under 'My Portfolio’.

Please let us know if you have further questions.

Cath

TeachingEnglish team