Teaching Your Subject in English (FutureLearn)

Teaching Your Subject in English (FutureLearn)
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This course is designed for current secondary school subject teachers who deliver lessons in English.
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Teaching Your Subject in English (FutureLearn)
Build your confidence to use English effectively to teach subjects such as Maths, Science or History with this free online course. Experts at Cambridge Assessment English and Cambridge Assessment International Education will provide you with a range of functional language and practical tips for using it.

You’ll join a community of teachers from across the world – sharing your expertise, finding out what works for other teachers, and looking for new ideas from a range of different contexts. There will also be opportunities for you to explore digital tools for teaching and learning.

Both Cambridge Assessment English and Cambridge Assessment International Education are part of Cambridge Assessment, a not-for-profit department of the University of Cambridge.



What topics will you cover?


Language for getting learners ready to learn:

- Sharing learning objectives

- Reviewing previous learning

- Eliciting


Language for conveying ideas and information:

- Giving definitions

- Describing and explaining

- Asking for explanations


Language for developing thinking skills:

- Questioning to develop predicting and hypothesising skills

- Questioning to develop reasoning skills

- Questioning to develop creativity


Language for setting up and managing activities:

- Giving instructions

- Helping learners get started

- Organising and managing pair and group work


Language for supporting and checking learning:

- Monitoring

- Getting learners to evaluate and reflect on learning

- Summarising and emphasising


What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Identify parts of a lesson where you can improve the English that you use to teach your subject

- Identify instructional language that you can try out in your lessons

- Put a range of instructional language into practice in your teaching context

- Experiment with suggestions from the course, to address some of the potential difficulties in using English in your context

- Reflect on how your use of English in the classroom can help your learners succeed