Please contact teachertraining@ihporto.org for more information on seminars, session titles, course times, dates and prices.
International House Porto Teacher Training department has developed steadily over the past few years. The Director of Studies, Jane Harding da Rosa, and her team of teachers Emma Lopes, Shawn Severson, Susie Menezes and Adriana Arujio to name a few, are always proud to deliver sessions every year at the IH Symposia, APPI conferences and APPI Workshops as well as presenting at the IH Porto Teachers Centre.
Listed below are a few of the sessions we have on offer. Please contact us directly if you are interested in running any of these seminars.
- Creative Grammar Teaching
- Alphabet Activities
- Personalising Grammar: Grammar made Easy
- Providing Young Learners with the language they really need
- Finding your way with Mind Maps
- Introduction to Brain Gym and Whole Brain and Body Learning
- Multiple Intelligences – when reading with teenagers
- Activities and Ideas for Young learners
- Using Songs in the classroom
- How to get the most out of Powerpoint
- Focus on Skills (4 sessions)
- Advantages and Disadvantages Writing: The Process
- Authenticity and artifice
- Basic Writing Skills
- Classroom Instructions>
- Dictations
- Exploiting Authentic Material for Children and Younger Learners
- Freer Speaking Activities
- Learner Training
- Modal Auxiliaries
- Problems with Learning and Using Vocabulary
- Process and Product-based approaches to the writing skill
- Roles of the Teacher
- Self-Assessment and evaluation
- A second look at receptive skills
- Teaching and Learning Grammar
- Teaching Exam Classes
- Teaching Vocabulary
- Thinking About It
- Use of L1 in the Classroom
- Using Children's Coursebooks
- Using the Student's First Language in the Classroom
- A Game of Many Halves
- And finally...exploiting short news stories
- And the beat goes on....
- Articles
- Classroom routines
- Creative writing
- Critical Thinking Sklils for ESL students
- Customer satisfaction
- Dictation
- Introduction to English for Academic Purposes
- Focussing attention
- Learning Styles
- Let's go to the movies
- Listen up! Reassessing listening skills
- Mysteries of Prepositions
- Using Phonemic Charts
- Word stress
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Spanish
French
Italian
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