Monday to Friday (Self Study)
During the week, you have access to all of IH Bangkok & Chiang Mai’s training resources, which include a vast range of videos and reading material on every aspect of the course from methodology and planning to activities and games. Each week trainees are given guidance on what to research based on the lesson type you are due to teach. As you progress through the course, you research different lesson types (receptive skills, grammar etc.), different lesson frameworks (PPP, TBL etc.) and the different teaching techniques to use within the stages of the lessons.  Don’t worry, we try to make the resources as practical as possible by providing many videos on how to apply the variety of ideas, techniques and activities.
Using our well-stocked Moodle resources, you will be able to access to the necessary input for your upcoming lessons. For example, for a reading lesson you will:
- Watch a short video on the rationale for the different stages within a reading lesson;
- Watch a reading skills lesson in action;
- Read about strategies to create curiosity in the text beforehand;
- Learn about how students read differently and examine task-types that help develop the different reading skills;
- Read about how to respond effectively to problems in a reading skills lesson.
- Look at different examples of possible extended speaking tasks that you can design to give students fluency practice connected to the text.
Once you have researched one area of English language teaching you will receive another area of teaching to focus on with different videos and reading material to complete in order to develop and deepen your understanding of the teaching methodology.