Professional Development Opportunities
Pedagogy courses
What professional development do we offer teachers?
A fantastic professional development opportunity to learn about the latest language-learning techniques. With this program, you will gain new tools, ideas, and resources to incorporate into your teaching.
The course is structured in independent but complementary sessions, each lasting 4 hours, with a clear practical focus, where teachers will have the opportunity to participate in the activities they will later use with their students.
Additionally, teachers will take part in visits and activities to experience the culture firsthand, providing personalized social and cultural immersion experiences.
Syllabus
One classroom session will be dedicated to each of the following (actual titles may vary slightly):
- Technology in the Classroom
- Culture in the Classroom
- Boosting Oral Skills
- Developing Reading Skills
- BLOCK 1 - WHAT DO I TEACH? CAN I MAKE IT EVEN BETTER?
- Session 1 - How to develop oral skills in the Spanish classroom | How to develop written skills | Integration of skills.
- Session 2 - The teaching of grammar and vocabulary with a highly practical approach
- Session 3 - The development of intercultural awareness | The material and my context: a complex relationship | What is situated learning?
- BLOCK 2 - WHO DO I TEACH? STUDENTS IN THE XXI CENTURY
- Session 4 - How to motivate my students? | Individual variables in learning | New technology | "News for whom?" | Technological resources and creativity in the ELE classroom.
- Session 5 - Audiovisual resources in the ELE class of the 21st century | Audiovisual literacy | Multimodal learning | Importance of social networks in today's Spanish classroom.
Seasoned language educators will equip you with hands-on strategies to implement in your own classroom setting.
- A skills-building seminar
- 4 classroom hours (9am – 1:30pm, Monday – Friday, 30-minute break included)
- Memorable cultural activities in the afternoon.
- A team of experienced teachers from the university’s Centro Superior de Idiomas will provide the in-class content.
- Language of instruction: Spanish
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