English language workshop for Corporation school teachers

The US Consulate General, Chennai, in association with the Corporation of Chennai, has started a four-day Communicative English Language Teaching Methods workshop for 60 Chennai Corporation School teachers.

The course, which began from Monday, will see Senior English Language Fellow Michelle Stabler-Havener, who works at the Regional Institute of English in Bangalore, conducting workshops for teachers who handle classes from grade three to nine.

“I am delighted that the Chennai Corporation has taken the initiative to empower its teachers with new skills to teach the next generation of young students from Tamil Nadu. There are many new and innovative communication technologies which are vastly different from the old paradigm of teaching and learning, and this has made a tremendous impact in the classroom,” US Consulate General, Chennai Acting Consul General Nicholas Manring said.

“The new methods of instruction aim to move a generation of teachers and students into the 21st century. These methods will help teachers to move away from rote teaching to interactive methods geared toward improving learning outcomes at schools,” Manring added. 

The workshop will focus on vocabulary, speaking, planning lessons and objectives. The 30 participants of the workshop on June 17 and June 18 will include teachers who handle grades three to five and the other 30 participants on June 19 and June 20 will include teachers who handle grades six to nine.