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?
This course is now closed for enrolment, but you can work on the online modules until 7 October if you're already enrolled.
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 next?
If you're interested in learning more about teaching English to refugees and displaced learners, you can:
- Get teaching ideas from our Courses for teachers Facebook community.
- Access learning content related to our courses on Facebook (Facebook account required).
- Access teaching resources on the TeachingEnglish website
- Download the free course workbook
- Sign up to the free newsletter to keep up to date on when our courses open.
Comments
Certificate
Hi Boubaker
If you haven't received your certificate, can you contact the courses team directly? You can do this by clicking on the orange "help" button on the courses page (bottom right of the screen). They should be able to help you.
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Cath
TeachingEnglish team
Tesol certificate
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I want to get Tesol certificate can you help me
I cannot acces to the courses
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I am currently experiencing difficulties accessing my courses through the My portfolio menu. The courses are not appearing.
Thank you.
Course access
Hi Daya11
I've just checked your account and can see that you are successfully enrolled in two of our courses. In theory you shouldn't have a problem accessing them. If you are being taken to your profile page when you click on "My courses", you need to log out of your TeachingEnglish account, clear the cache on your browser and then log back in again. This should resolve the issue.
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Cath
TeachingEnglish team
Can't find My Portfolio and My Course
I have logged in but there is no My Portfolio or My course in the home button.No option for enrolment. kindly help
Course access
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You need to follow the instructions (step 1 and step 2) where it says "How do I sign up for the course?" above. Once you are logged into your TeachingEnglish account, click on Step 2 and you will see the enrol button.
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Trouble in accessing courses
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I recently have trouble in accessing my courses in the My portfolio menu .
They just don't come up.
Thank you
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Cath
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Cannot access the page
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Re: Cannot access the page
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Can not log in to my courses
I can not log in to my courses due to a privacy error occurs. It happens only using this website. Can you please let me know how to rectify this error?
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I am having trouble with access of my learning
I am trying to go through to my learning to complete my course but I am having trouble it's showing someone trying to steal your information??? I'm worried kindly look into in thanks
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Technical issue
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TeachingEnglish team
Browsers blocking access
Hi. I look forward to participating in this course. However, the various browsers I have (Firefox, Chrome, Bing) all report that "your" security certificate expired in the last day, and so they will not move forward to allow me to enrol. The automatically generated message they display reports that the problem may be on my end, or on yours (or in the middle, I suppose, with some clever hacker).
Could you please confirm that open.teachingenglish.org.uk has all its ducks in a row from the security perspective?
I haven't found a way to move forward and enrol yet, but at the same time I am not going to "weaken" the security settings I have.
Thank you very much, also for offering this course!
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TeachingEnglish team
enrolling to the course
Getting the chance to be enrolled to such a course would be great for me, a Ukrainian teacher.Is it possible after the course started on June,6?
Course access
Hi Verochka
Enrolment is open until 26th June and the course ends on 3rd July - this is a self-access course so you are able to start it whenever you like during that period.
Hope that helps,
Cath
TeachingEnglish team
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I cannot access My Courses or the troubleshooting website due to the error message below
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Technical issue
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My Course Tab is not opening
HI,I have started the course but the problem is that when I sat to work and clicked on the tab "My Courses" nothing appears and it is written "Not Secure". All other tabs are opening well.
What should I do? I have cleared the history as well.
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Rubina Joiya
Technical issue
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Course Missing from My Course
Hello - I started the first Unit and completed it. Now My Courses does not show the course is missing. I only see My Saved Pages and Website.
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Why is the course not in My course?
I am facing the same issue as submitted by Ms. Gayathria. I was in the middle of the first module, and suddenly this course was nowhere. Please help
Course access
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Please let us know if the problem persists.
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Same problem
Tried logging out, cleared the cache. Still don't see the course. 😢
Course access
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Cath
TeachingEnglish team
Hi I enrolled in course of…
Hi
I enrolled in course of Teaching English to refugees and displaced learners',How can i start and when?
Course start date
Hi
The course starts on June 6th so you will be able to access the course content then.
Hope you enjoy the course!
Cath
TeachingEnglish team
Learning for Resilience enrollment
Hi, I was wondering when the Learning for Resilience course in June 2023 would be taking enrollments?
Thank you!
Elizabeth
Course information
Hi Elizabeth
Enrollment usually starts a few weeks before the course start date. A good way to know when the course has opened is to subscribe to our newsletter - you can do that here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/subscribe-our-newsletter The newsletter also contains information about our other courses, webinars and teaching resources.
Thanks
Cath
TeachingEnglish team
Course Enrolling
Hello
How do I enroll for upcoming courses?
Thank you
Hi Margocham, Thanks for…
Hi Margocham,
Thanks for your interest in our courses. Go to this page: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training to find out about the courses that are currently running. Our next course is "Focus on professional development", and it starts on October 4.
Philippa
TeachingEnglish team
I am interested in joining…
I am interested in joining the course.
Course dates
Hi Derrick,
This course has finished for now but you can always check which courses are open for registration on the main training page: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training. and the page says that the Language and Resilience Course will be run again in 2023 :) and that the current course available is 'How to Teach Grammar' :https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-how-teach-grammar, open for registration until September 19th.
Hope you can join a course soon!
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
No Enrollment Option
I registerd myself but the English Teaching Team is off on my profile. And May be that's the reason there is no option of enrollment for any course on my profile. Please tell me the issue.
Your profile
Hi Savera,
This course has finished for now but you can always check which courses are open for registration on the main training page: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training. and the page tells us that the Language and Resilience Course will be run again in 2023 :), and the current course available is online skills for 21st century teachers at https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-online-skills-21st-century-teachers. Hope you can join a course soon!
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
When in 2023?
Hi,
Please could you tell me when in 2023 this course will be available again.
Thanks
Course dates
Hi,
I am sorry but 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
I am Seemab from Pakistan. I…
I am Seemab from Pakistan. I am truly excited to cover this course. It is such a great opportunity for a second language learners.
No dates yet for the next run of this course
Hi Seemab,
Glad that the course sounds interesting and you can look out on the main training page for the next time that we run it ( this course has finished for now). You can always check which courses are open for registration on the main training page: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training. I hope you can find a course that interests you soon, and the page tells us that the Language and Resilience Course will be run again in 2023 :).
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
Language for resilience: Teaching English to refugees and displa
The most interesting , useful and practical course I´ve done this year with The British Council together with the amazing webinars relate to this topic. Thanks for it
Course feedback
Thanks for the feedback Almudena and glad it was useful for you :)
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
How to enroll/register for the course?
Hi!
I am interested to register /enroll for Language and Resilience Course however there is no link provided where I can click neither access it yo successfully enroll. Please help
Thank you very much
Course access
Hi Mohammad,
You can always check which courses are open for registration on the main training page: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training. So, as regards the course you are interested in, I'm sorry but the registration for the course has closed - it started in early June and will be finishing soon. I hope you can find a course that interests you soon, and the page tells us that the Language and Resilience Course will be run again in 2023 :).
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
Certification
Greetings
I finished all my modules for this course and did the survey as well the previous week and I haven’t received my certificate is there anything else that I am needed to do that am not aware of please advice .
Thank you
Course certificates
Hi GuguM,
Congratulations on finishing the course! 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. Let us know if it's still causing problems :).
Regards,
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
Thank you for the response…
Thank you for the response Anne let me try again 🙏🏽
I took this course along with others but I can't find it on my rewards.