CHENNAI: A nationwide programme of training for English teachers, launched by the British Council and Cambridge ESOL, will kick-start in Chennai with a training workshop for selected persons from South India on May 31.

The workshop, which will go on until June 2, will be conducted by Alsion Barrett, English Language Teaching support manager for British Council, India.

Cambridge exam content

Each teacher training programme will aim to familiarise teachers with the Cambridge exam content and the skills students need to develop in order to be successful in the exams, develop their awareness of English language teaching methodology in the areas relevant to each exam, improve teachers' ability to find, develop and use resources they already have to develop their students' skills and equip them with a readymade bank of ideas and activities they can use to start preparing their students.

Typically, each workshop will have eight core modules covering subjects such as listening, reading, writing, speaking, teaching language, lesson planning, materials development and activities that can be used in classrooms.

Additional modules may be added for the specific needs of teachers.

The British Council and Cambridge ESOL, a department of the University of Cambridge with expertise in English language training and testing, are conducting the programme as a result of the need to shift towards the teaching and learning of English as a skill rather than as an academic subject in schools and colleges.

For information about teacher training contact: British Council, Ph: +91 (0) 44 4205 0600.

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