Free Online Course offered by FutureLearn: Teaching Young Learners Online

Future Learn Platform offers a free online course on Teaching Young Learners Online.

Have you recently had to adapt to online teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic?

This 3-week course from the British Council will help you explore the practice and theory of online teaching.

While this course is mostly aimed at English language teachers, all teachers can benefit from learning about accessibility, online safety, and how to engage young learners online.

The course will begin with an exploration of how to ensure learners interact together meaningfully. You’ll learn about the principles of language learning and teaching, and gain insight into how to connect with learners and their parents.

Building a community and developing rapport with your students will help them have a positive online learning experience, so you’ll plan and share a meaningful activity that’ll help you get to know your learners.

It’s important to tailor your online teaching to your learners’ needs so that each class is inclusive and fun, so you’ll learn how to provide extra support for those who need it.

You’ll help expose your learners to language through reading and listening activities, and develop strategies to engage learners in different online learning environments.

This course is intended for:

This course is for English language teachers, teaching young learners (5-17) in an online environment. Experience of teaching in online contexts is not essential and both experienced and novice online teachers will benefit.

While most of the context is based around English language learning, teachers of other subjects will also find the course valuable, as the principles of English language lesson planning apply to online teaching in general.

Course duration:

3 hours per week for 3 weeks.

Course topics:

• Week 1: Meaningful interaction
  Creating the best conditions for your learners to interact meaningfully and learn together online
• Week 2: Engagement, content and differentiation
  Tailoring your online teaching to your learners’ needs, to ensure your classes are inclusive and enjoyable
• Week 3: Practice, assessment and progress
  Helping learners develop their speaking and writing skills, and using assessment for learning to make learners and their parents aware of their progress

Course objectives:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

1. Identify how to build relationships with learners, between learners and with parents, and be present and supportive when teaching online
2. Know how to include and engage learners online both in synchronous and asynchronous environments
3. Understand privacy and safety issues online and how to help learners and parents think critically about online risks and behaviour
4. Evaluate the opportunities and challenges associated with different tools and modes of online teaching and learning
5. Apply principles of English language lesson planning to online teaching
6. Develop and share techniques for language and skills teaching and assessment online
7. Apply and practise how to manage online interactions effectively

Course costs:

Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 5 weeks.

Or upgrade this course for $49 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

Or buy unlimited for $ 279.99 for one year and gets:

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

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