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As a future graduate from the PRESETT Bachelor’s programme you will be expected to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and qualities, specified below.

Understanding learners

  • Understand how to identify learners’ needs as they evolve and adapt teaching procedures and materials accordingly

  • Understand the main theories related to second language learning and acquisition and their implications for practice

  • Reflect on their learners’ language learning processes

  • Involve learners in different ways of learning to help them develop their learning strategies

  • Advise learners on how to organise and manage their learning productively

  • Take into account psychological and social factors that influence learner behaviour when planning and teaching

  • Understand the concept of learner autonomy and its implications for teaching and learning

  • Guide learners in finding and using resources in and beyond the classroom that assist their learning

  • Identify individual learning difficulties and cater for different categories of special educational needs in planning and teaching

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Planning lessons and courses

  • Plan teaching to meet the needs of learners and to achieve course outcomes according to the curriculum

  • Plan teaching of the language systems in appropriate communicative contexts

  • Evaluate and select materials to engage learners in line with the aims and objectives of a lesson, and the specific teaching/learning context

  • Plan the stages of a lesson in a way that enables language skills to be developed systematically

  • Plan the timing of a lesson in an organised way, allowing time for monitoring and feedback

  • Plan interaction patterns for different activities during the lesson

  • Analyse the language to be presented in the lesson and anticipate the problems that learners may face

  • Set aims, objectives and learning outcomes of lessons and lesson sequences appropriately

  • Plan lessons taking into account insights from previous classes

  • Anticipate non-language problems that may arise during the lesson and plan how to respond to them

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Managing the lesson

  • Create conditions and provide facilities for learning in the classroom

  • Organise classroom processes through clear instructions and accurate timing

  • Set up and monitor a range of interactions in the classroom according to learning purposes and learning styles

  • Maintain a proper balance between teacher talk and student talk

  • Identify problems in learner behaviour and deal with them appropriately

  • Provide appropriate feedback to learners

  • Solicit and act on feedback from learners

  • Use classroom resources and technologies to support learning

Evaluating and assessing learning

  • Apply different types of assessment to suit a range of learning contexts

  • Identify and diagnose learners’ errors and difficulties and apply the findings in teaching and assessment

  • Use a range of techniques to correct errors in learners’ spoken and written language, and provide developmental feedback

  • Help learners to understand their errors and how to deal with them

  • Equip learners with tools for assessing their progress and achievement

  • Use given criteria from an existing assessment scale to grade learners’ progress and achievement

  • Refer to the National Curriculum to select texts for teaching and testing.

  • Design progress and achievement tests that are based firmly on National Curriculum requirements and CEFR level descriptors

  • Evaluate and select existing tasks/ tests from an online or a printed source for assessing learners’ progress and achievement, adapting and/ or supplementing them if needed.

  • Administer, mark and give feedback on tests and assessment in a timely and appropriate fashion and maintain accurate assessment records.

 

Knowing the subject of English

  • Have a B2/C1 level in the target language and make a justified use of L1 and L2 in class

  • Select language and terminology appropriate to the level of the learners and the type of the lesson

  • Give full, accurate answers to queries from students about different aspects of language and usage

  • Anticipate learners’ problems while dealing with the language in class

  • Use a range of techniques to guide learners in working out answers to their own language queries and correcting their errors

  • Provide a good model of pronunciation and grammatical accuracy for learners.

  • Keep up to date with changes and innovations in spoken and written English

 

Knowing the subject of methodology

  • Have a sufficient knowledge of theories of language teaching and learning, methodology concepts

  • Provide principled justification for the teaching approaches, range of techniques and materials being used

  • Select and create appropriate tasks and materials for the classroom

  • Develop their range of teaching techniques following up observation of colleagues

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Managing own professional development

  • Understand the principles of reflective practice

  • Collaborate with colleagues, regularly share experiences and ideas with other teachers and get support from them

  • Undertake further training

  • Keep up to date with the latest developments in ELT

  • Understand how to observe and learn from other teachers

  • Identify areas for professional development, set goals and plan development to achieve these goals

  • Build learner autonomy in themselves

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