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Welcome to 'Online skills for remote teaching'

How will the course help you?

Develop the skills you need to make your learners successful in remote learning by reflecting on different approaches to planning activities, creating interactive opportunities and managing remote learners.

What does the course include?

Online skills for remote teaching 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: Understanding remote teaching

This module looks at the terminology used in remote teaching. It identifies useful approaches and will help you to reflect on your own teaching and how you can teach remotely.

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

- identify different remote teaching terms
- identify skills teachers need for remote teaching
- describe the characteristics of hybrid and flipped learning
- explain the importance of onboarding and support for remote learners
- include parents and caregivers in remote learning.

Module 2: Planning and adapting materials

This module looks at how to plan a remote lesson and some of the differences with face-to-face lessons. You will look at how to adapt the activities in your coursebook and create collaborative tasks to encourage reading and speaking in the remote classroom.

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

- describe how to overcome challenges in planning online classes
- identify ways to adapt your coursebook for the remote classroom
- plan games and virtual trips for your online classroom
- use a range of tools and techniques for creating collaborative writing and speaking tasks
- identify ways to use digital portfolios as part of the remote assessment process
- structure and personalise reading and listening lessons for the remote classroom.

Module 3: Managing remote learning

This module looks at classroom management. It will help you manage your learners through a variety of tools and processes and recognise the skills to help you give and receive feedback when teaching remotely.

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

- use classroom tools to manage learners and create interaction opportunities
- get and give learner feedback
- manage the use of different tools for the remote classroom
- use appropriate streamlined communication techniques to reduce overload
- select ways to organise and prioritise your work and create an action plan for your own professional development.

When is the course?

Enrolment for 'Online skills for remote teaching' 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?

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Comments

Submitted by ashgan123 on Thu, 08/17/2023 - 15:10

Hello,
I would like to know when the course will be available again as I would like to enroll as soon as possible.

Hi @ashgan123, I am sorry but we don't have a date yet because the courses are planned up to March 2024. It will be announced on the training page when it's on again https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training.

Best regards,

Anne

TeachingEnglish team

Hi,

If you have successfully completed the course, you can find your certificate by logging onto the course platform as usual, then click on the "My awards" tab and then on "My certificates". You can then download the PDF.

Louise

Submitted by Adjekpagbon on Wed, 08/09/2023 - 16:35

Thank you for providing this opportunity to English Teachers about what it takes to teach online.
Regards,

Blessed Adjekpagbon

Submitted by Faseeha Bintay… on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 18:16

I am enroll in this course but i haven't yet completed it . if i complete it , can I still get my certificate?

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Tue, 08/08/2023 - 12:54

Hi Faseeha

This course is now closed. I'm afraid the content is no longer available so you won't be able to complete the course. It's important to check the start and end dates of the courses when you enrol. We hope to run the course again in the future.  You can keep up to date with all of our latest training, events and news by subscribing to our newsletter here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/subscribe-our-newsletter

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Ms Jin on Wed, 07/19/2023 - 14:47

Can I have the official hard copy of this certificate from BC? Or I just only download it from "My Awards"? Thank you

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Thu, 07/20/2023 - 07:29

Hi Ms Jin

Yes, you need to download the certificate from "My awards" and then you can print it out.

Cath
TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Uroosa Amir on Mon, 07/17/2023 - 05:18

Please generate my certificate I have completed my Courae

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Mon, 07/17/2023 - 08:07

Hi Uroosa Amir

If you have successfully completed the course your certificate should appear under the "My awards" tab on the courses platform. If it isn't there, can you use the orange "help" button on the bottom right of the screen to report this to the courses team directly? Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi SaharAtashbar

If you have successfully completed the course your certificate should appear under the "My awards" tab on the courses platform. If it isn't there, can you use the orange "help" button on the bottom right of the screen to report this to the courses team directly? Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi karteza89

Have you clicked on the instructions under "How do I register for the course?" You need to be logged in to a TeachingEnglish account and then you can click on the enrol button (under Step 2).

Please let us know if you are still having problems.
 

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Bekzod Sadullaev on Sun, 10/29/2023 - 07:26

Good afternoon, I Logged in, but i cant register for online course, How can I do

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Mon, 10/30/2023 - 10:40

Hi Bekzod

This course is not currently available - we hope to run it again in 2024/2025.

You can keep up to date with all our currently available resources and courses by signing up to our free newsletter here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/subscribe-our-newsletter

You can find information about our current courses on our training page: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training

Thanks,

Cath
TeachingEnglish team

 

Submitted by Shahnaz on Mon, 07/10/2023 - 08:30

Dear group facilitator and all course members,
Greetings
Thank you very much to add me for such a nice course. I know I will learn a lot. Icouldn't join FB introduction chat because I dont use FB anymore nut I will be active in every other forum.
Thanks again
Shahnaz Khalid

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Thu, 07/13/2023 - 12:18

Hi Nila

Once you are enrolled on the course you can access the content by clicking on the "MY PORTFOLIO - My courses" tab at the top of the page. You need to be logged in to your TeachingEnglish account.

Cath
TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by delmondo on Tue, 07/04/2023 - 15:28

I have just finished Unit 1. I can't seem to find the path to Unit 2.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 07:36

Hi delmondo

You should be able to navigate easily through each module just by using the forward arrows. You can find the start of each module on the courses homepage when you click on "MY PORTFOLIO - My courses".

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by DIPU KARMAKAR on Tue, 07/04/2023 - 04:46

Dear, sir

I am unable to access my courses, can you please help me with some keys to access them easily.

Regards
Dipu

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Tue, 07/04/2023 - 07:34

Hi Dipu

I've just checked your account and can see that you are successfully enrolled. So to access the course, you need to firstly log in to your TeachingEnglish account, then click on the "MY PORTFOLIO- My courses" tab at the top left of the screen. This will take you to the courses platform where you can continue with your course.

If you are taken back to your profile page when you click on "MY PORTFOLIO" you need to log out of your account, clear the cache on your browser and then log back in.

Hope that helps,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Asom Hassan on Sun, 07/02/2023 - 11:24

Thank for your efforts

Submitted by hussam_k2000 on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 13:20

Dear, sir

I always find problem in accessing my courses, can you give some keys to access them easily.

A trainee
Hussam Khomais.

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Mon, 07/03/2023 - 07:38

Hi Hussam

Sorry to hear you are having problems accessing your courses. These instructions should help:

IMPORTANT: If you didn't log out of TeachingEnglish after your previous visit, do this first.

From your 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.

From your 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

Remember that if you are having problems, a good first step is to log out of your TeachingEnglish account and then log back in again.

If you are still having problems, please write to us at TeachingEnglish@britishcouncil.org and give us more details so that we can help you.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi

To enrol on the course, you just need to follow the 2-step instructions above under "How do I register for the course?"

The course starts on 4th July. Please let us know if you have any problems registering.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Submitted by Rania Fouad Solaiman on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 22:38

How can I study for this course? Where can I find the materials and what are the tasks?

Hi Rania

If you are already enrolled in the course then you will be able to access the material from 4th July, when the course starts.

To do that, you need to be logged into your TeachingEnglish account, and then click on the "MY PORTFOLIO - My courses" tab - this will take you to the courses platform where you will work through the activities. It is a self-access course, so you just need to follow the instructions on the screen.

Hope that helps,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

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