This week, we’re looking at how one of our online professional development courses can help you when teaching primary learners. This ties in with one of the principles for teachers’ professional development: P for Peer-collaborative.
INSPIRE: the principles supporting your professional development
The word INSPIRE explains our teacher development principles.
The ‘P’ in INSPIRE = Peer-collaborative. This means that your professional development includes getting regular feedback and support from colleagues. For example, if you and your colleagues take an online training course, then apply those methods in your teaching, the feedback from your colleagues could then be done through team teaching or observing one another in your classrooms: whichever method best suits your teaching context.
Example activities: teaching vocabulary
Below are two games that you can use to consolidate vocabulary learning, taken from our Teaching Primary Learners Communicatively online course.
Activity 1 – Categorising:
Activity 2 – Draw the Word:
How do I study the Teaching Primary Learners Communicatively online course?
There are three steps to studying one of our online professional development courses:
- Step 1: either purchase an online course yourself from our online store, or your institution can give you a course activation code.
- Step 2: Register for the Cambridge Learning Management System (the Cambridge LMS) to study our teacher professional development courses online.
You can find a list of online courses and full instructions on how to register, on our website.
- Step 3: Once you’ve registered and logged in, you can either join an online ‘class’ or select ‘self-study’ mode.
For the Teaching Primary Learners Communicatively online course: if you decide that self-study mode is the right option for you:
- On the My Learning screen, simply select the Self-study tab
- Select Content next to Teaching Primary Learners Communicatively Self-study.
Next week
We’ll look at Teaching with Technology 2: Apps and Social Media, which is related to the ‘I for In-practice’ principle in INSPIRE.