Course Overview

COURSE OVERVIEW

TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR MALAYSIAN ENGLISH LECTURERS

 IN THE TVET SECTOR

This training is held at Balik Pulau Polytechnic, Penang on October 8 until October 21, 2014. The participating organisations are from Polytechnics, Vocational Colleges and Community Colleges from all over Malaysia. The training given is trained by professional trainers representing Westminster Kingsway (Central London's) College and they are Mr Bill, Mr Peter, Mr Andrew, Mr Chris, Ms Carole and Ms Katie.

The daily structure of the two-week course in Malaysia is organised as follows, with the day starting at 08:30 and finishing at 22:00. The core hours for this training are shown below as Training Sessions 1-3, as well as the 'Home group work with trainers' session. As for the Cambrige Group the home tutor for this group is led by Ms Carole.

The topics given for this training are as followed:

 1. English language class (Trainer: Carole)

 2. Aims of and rationale for CLIL (Trainer:  Carole)

 3. English language class: Hospitality and Tourism (Trainer: Carole)

 4. Language across the curriculum (Trainer: Chris)

 5. Communication skills across the curriculum (Trainer: Katie)

 6. English language class : Engineering (Trainer: Peter)

 7. Materials selection and adaptation activity types (Trainer: Bill)

 8. Planning a lesson or a series of lessons (Trainer: Peter)

 9. English language class: Accountancy (Trainer: Bill)

 10.Classroom language and higher order questioning (Trainer: Andrew)

 11.Learning skills across the curriculum (Trainer: Carole)

 12.English language class: Employability skills (Trainer: Katie)

 13.Language demands of subject content and accompanying tasks (Trainer: Carole)

 14.Resources-including multi-media and visual organisers: Multimodality (Trainer: Peter)

 15.Focus of assessment and effective error correction (Trainer: Chris)

 16.Scaffolding content and language learning (Trainer: Chris)

 17.Cognitive (and higher order thinking) skills across the curriculum (Trainer: Carole)

 18.Consolidating learning and differentiation; including mixed ability groups (Trainer: Bill)

 19.Learning strategies and independent learning through technology (Trainer by Andrew)

 20.Support strategies and meeting the needs of all learners (Trainer: Peter)

 21.Types of assessment and higher order thinking skills in assessment (Trainer: Katie)

 22.Plenary-The IT Revolution: An Exploration

 23.Encouraging Extensive Reading

 24.Action Planning and Next Steps

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