Options

Option 1

Using Technology in the Classroom tuition only

Option 2

Language then Using Technology in the Classroom 

Choose one week of English tuition only (21 hours), followed by one week of Using Technology in the Classroom (18.75 hours).

Breakdown

Topics

Using Technology in the Classroom

• Cloud Storage, file sharing and blogging
• Creating a digital Portfolio
• Digital citizenship and literacy
• Revision of key skills
• Designing a lesson using technology
• Using Online Tools and Apps for Assessment
• The Flipped Classroom
• Digital Storytelling
• Google Products in the classroom
• Using and creating audio and video files and podcasts
• Creating, evaluating and setting up digital classrooms
• Apps for education. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
• Creating real-world projects
• Evaluating digital tools
• Recording material and activities from the computer screen
• Recording flipped lessons

Intensive English

• Receptive and productive skills
• Practice emphasising speaking and listening skills
• Communicating effectively and flexibly through English in the real-world

Competences

• Linguistic: Grammatical, lexical and phonological
• Strategic: Interaction, compensation and repair
• Pragmatic: Functional language and discourse management

Fluency Development

Asking for and giving information and opinions, expressing a point of view, persuading, agreeing and disagreeing

Objectives & Outcomes

Learning objectives

To familiarise the participants with recent teaching practices and technology developments.

• To increase participants’ awareness of the opportunities to integrate ICT into teaching and learning processes in their schools
• To increase participants’ skill and confidence in the use of some computer applications. We give them an opportunity to use the programmes we introduce them to and show them how to adapt some ready-made programmes to their particular classroom requirements
• To provide an opportunity to develop and strengthen participants own language skills and to improve their confidence in their own lesson delivery
• To promote awareness of contemporary Ireland
• To establish contacts between teachers from a variety of European backgrounds and facilitate future networking among these professionals

Course outcomes

• Introduction to a wide range of applications

• Increased confidence in using technology across a range of subject teaching
• Increased awareness of the use of the web as a teaching resource
• Increased awareness of how integrating technology into learning experiences can help to integrate school into students’ lives so they become more engaged in their learning inside and outside of school.
• Digital portfolio of lesson plans and material created to act as a reference for implementing new techniques in their schools and also as an aid to disseminating the project to colleagues
• Enhancement of personal English language skills
• Improved learner outcomes for their students
• Sharing of experience and knowledge with professionals from a range of European countries
• Increased knowledge of Irish history and culture
• Knowledge of Erasmus+ potential for professional development

Sample Timetable

Timetables will vary depending on the course option. Below is a sample timetable of the two-week Using Technology in the Classroom. 

Week 1

Weekend

Informal learning; Self-guided research and cultural visits with guidelines from Twin English Centre, Dublin.

Week 2