Training - Face-to-Face Sessions and Workshops

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Overview
Formed in 2003, The Consultants-E is an innovative web-based company of consultants dealing with online learning and teaching in higher and adult education. Each member of the team has extensive experience of f2f language teaching and teacher training, and we have been involved in online training since the mid-1990s  we have also recently published ‘How to Teach English with Technology’ (Dudeney & Hockly, Longman 2007). We help companies and higher education institutions implement instructional technology, design online courses and seminars, and train educators in online teaching and learning. We also offer quality f2f training, especially in the application of ICT, to classroom teachers.

ICT (Information and Communications Technology) is playing an increasingly important role in the lives of language teachers, teacher trainers and educators, and management, not just in terms of dealing with administrative duties, but in terms of its use in the classroom. How to use ICT (and especially Internet-based tools) effectively in the classroom is an area that is given short shrift even on formal teacher training courses. The result is teachers who are untrained to use ICT successfully and effectively in the classroom, and schools investing in technology that their teachers are either unwilling or unable to use.

We offer a series of workshops on how to implement ICT tools in the language classroom. These are aimed at teachers, teacher trainers, directors, and educators in general. All of our workshops are communicative, hands-on, and based in real classroom practice. Practising teachers leave our workshops with clear ideas on how to implement these tools in their own teaching. With a minimum group size of 6, and a maximum of 25, participants are guaranteed a personal service geared towards addressing common problematic areas associated with the implementation of technology in language teaching, as well as practical, hands-on work which - when applied - can have an immediate and positive impact on their professional lives.

Face to face Workshops
On the next two pages [ workshops page 1 | workshops page 2 ] are a range of workshops which we currently offer. Each workshop can last between 1 and 3 hours, depending on whether the workshop includes hands-on training with computers for the participants, and a combination of workshops can be put together depending on the client’s needs and the total duration of the training.

Please contact us directly to discuss your training needs, and our training terms and fees. We also offer these workshops in Spanish or Catalan, and can provide resources for teachers of modern European languages (Spanish, French, German, Italian).

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