Course | Certificate in Observing Teachers and Giving Feedback

Price

Original price: €375.

Course Tutor

As a participant of the Observing Teachers and Giving Feedback course, you will receive personalised guidance from Anna Stubbs. Anna has been teaching and training teachers at Oxford TEFL since 2001. She is the Course Director on the Cambridge CELTA courses and also tutors on our Teaching English Online course.

Anna Stubbs
Anna joined Oxford TEFL in September 2001 following a 3 month trip around South America. She is the Course Director on our Cambridge CELTA courses and also tutors on our Certificate Teaching English Online course. As well as training teachers online and in Barcelona she has also run teacher training courses in India and China. Since 2014 she has taught Spanish to local immigrants in the Raval area of the city.

Duncan Foord
Duncan Foord is the Director of OxfordTEFL, Barcelona. He has 30 years experience in language teaching, teacher training and school leadership and management. He is the author of “From English Teacher to Learner Coach” (with Dan Barber, The Round 2014) The Developing Teacher (Delta Publishing, 2009) and The Language Teachers Survival Handbook with Lindsay Clandfield (Its Magazines, 2008). He is lead trainer on the OxfordTEFL Leadership in ELT course (on line and face to face)

Overview

3 or 6 weeks, 30 hours
Online one-to-one
Personalised attention from an expert tutor
Feedback on tasks and live tutorials
Starts every Friday

Who Is This Course for?

The Certificate in Observing Teachers and Giving Feedback course incorporates both online and in-person observation contexts. This course is ideal for Teacher Trainers, Directors of Studies, senior teachers, and teachers interested in developing their career. You may be already working as a CELTA tutor, for example, or on a similar teacher training course. You may be working in a language school or university and be responsible for observing teachers in your team and giving them feedback. This course is ideal if you would like to develop your skills and know-how in this area.

It is recommended that you have a CELTA / Trinity CertTESOL or initial teaching certificate to take the Observing Teachers and Giving Feedback course plus at least 2 years of classroom experience.

What Will You Learn?

The Observing Teachers and Giving Feedback course will help you learn and practise how to give effective written and oral feedback to teachers you observe. It will also teach you how to manage teacher observation in the context of a training course, in a school or in any other teaching organisation. The course covers a range of topics including:
The role of observation in teacher training and teacher development
Types of observation and which to use when
The stages of observation and feedback
Setting up and managing observations
Providing feedback in the context of a school or training context
How to listen and what to say in the feedback conversation
How to prepare and carry out positive and constructive observation conversations
Options for creating and structuring effective written feedback

How Will This Course Help You Develop?

The course content is highly practical and you will learn through the application of tools from coaching, teacher development and counselling. You will have the opportunity to observe classroom teaching and feedback conversations, read and evaluate samples of written feedback and put what you have learnt from this into practice during your tasks and assignments. At the end of the course you will feel more confident about your ability to set up and carry out effective observation and feedback in a variety of contexts and with a range of teacher/trainee types.