Course: English course for Teachers
Target Participants:
Teachers (Pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs), Teacher trainers, Careers officers, educational guides and counselors, Inspectors, Head teachers/principals/managers of schools/organizations offering adult education, Other (Paid or voluntary) management staff in the institution/organization, Members of students/teachers councils in adult education, Other, namely: Local municipal education officers, Members of students/teachers councils in adult education
EAGLE INTUITION – Centro de Formação
Accommodation: 3 stars hotel, or superior
Course leader: Rui Baltazar
Website: https://europe.ei.edu.pt
e-mail: europe@ei.edu.pt
Preparation
There are no special preparationfor this course.
Objectives
- Improve general and educational English (B1–B2 levels).
- Expand vocabulary related to teaching and classroom management.
- Practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in a school context.
- Develop confidence in communicating with students, parents, and colleagues in English.
- Learn how to give instructions, provide feedback, and manage classroom interactions.
- Use English in common school scenarios (meetings, parent-teacher conferences, etc.).
- Exchange good practices and educational experiences using English.
- Foster collaboration between European teachers using English as a common language.
Methodology
- Communicative, active, and immersive approach.
- Group activities, role-plays, and simulations of real school contexts.
- Listening and speaking tasks based on educational topics.
- Reading and writing practice using authentic school documents.
- Use of digital tools and games to support language learning.
- Fieldwork in real English-use environments (e.g., guided tours, cultural visits).
- Individual and group feedback sessions.
- Evaluation through continuous assessment and reflection tasks.
Follow-up
Allow participants to share their experience and develop the project (and other projects) by web networking.
Actions:
- Access to an online platform for continued English practice and sharing of teaching resources.
- Collaborative community for European teachers to support professional development in English.
- Option to join future English practice webinars and Erasmus+ project partnerships.
Certification
- A certificate of attendance is presented to participants at the end of the course.
- Europass Mobility
- Course Agreement
- Other documents, if necessary.
Cultural events (included in the course fee)
- Visit to historic part of Lisbon (to filming or/and take photos)
- Visit to the historic part of Almada (to filming or/and take photos)
- Visit to Cristo-Rei (to filming or/and take photos)
- Visit to Cacilhas harbor (to filming or/and take photos)
- Visit to Rua Augusta Arch (to filming or/and take photos)
- Special FADO Dinner (FADO is the Portuguese music, On 27 November 2011, Fado was inscribed in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists)
- Special farewell dinner – Portuguese tipic restaurant
COURSE FEE AND FUNDING
Course Fee (this is a course ALL INCLUSIVE)
- Hotel (6 days) in single room
- All days breakfast (6)
- All days lunch (5)
- All days dinners (5)
- Course material
- Course documents
- Refresments during all the course
- Transport during the course
Participants should pay the complete course fee to the organizers 4 months before the course starts.
Cancellation by the participant, between 6 and 3 weeks before the course, results in a cancellation fee of 80%. Cancellation by the participant, later 3 weeks before the course, results in a cancellation fee of 90%.
If the organizers cancel the course, they reimburse the already paid amount to the beneficiary.
Funding
You can request an Erasmus+ grant from your National Agency which will cover almost all costs of this course.
We can guide you through the process of funding and application. To do so, you need the make a pre-registration. After pre-registration, we’ll contact you by mail and provide the application help.