The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has a wide range of CPD courses and resources to support maths, English and ESOL delivery.
Our offer has been carefully designed to provide solutions to concerns around progress in post-16 maths, English and ESOL attainment and to develop subject specific skills.
The courses are for practitioners at all levels and stages of their development and include:
These can be packaged and delivered in-house and tailored to meet the needs of the organisation, either online or face-to-face.
Short courses are designed to run between 2 – 2.5 hours, with the option to be packaged in pairs and delivered over a full day face-to-face.
Prices for CPD courses start at £55 for our 2-hour open sessions. For an in-house group booking, discounts are available for packages of modules, and prices start from £1045 for 5 hours of online training – contact us for details.
This fully accredited Award in Education is designed for either those new to teaching altogether or for more experienced teachers looking to begin teaching ESOL for the first time.
This is a comprehensive course spanning 12 weeks with 2 x 2 hour sessions per week. The content is accredited by Milton Keynes College on behalf of NCFE and focuses on pedagogical and practical approaches to teaching, specifically, ESOL learners. The cost is £985 per person for an open course – discounts are available for an in-house group booking – contact us for details.
This CPD course, designed to be similar in difficulty to a Level 5 module, is designed to support participants to become more confident in analysing the English Language needs of their ESOL learners and planning teaching and learning activities to help learners develop their language awareness and the four English language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening.
This two part course is for you if you support learners with ESOL needs who are learning Functional Skills English and you want to identify ways to maximise the learners’ chances of passing their assessments.
This interactive webinar aims to explore how knowledge and skills in grammar can be taught in imaginative ways through the active exploration of everyday and vocational texts.
This course is for you if you support learners of English Functional Skills and GCSEs (including those with ESOL needs) and you want to identify ways to develop your learners’ fluency in reading.
This interactive course is for you if your learners may have limited vocabulary and this impacts negatively on their performance. You will consider ways to assess your learners’ vocabulary.
ETF is continuing to provide support to ESOL practitioners. Alongside the general resources, specific resources have been created to support practitioners who are working with ESOL learners. These resources can be used to support anybody who might be referred to as being at a ‘pre-Entry’ level. We refer to them as ‘New to ESOL’ learners, and we include specific resources to better meet the early integration needs of refugees who are new arrivals.
Our ESOL resources for teachers can be found on the ESOL Teachers section of our learning platform.
Our learning management system houses free, self-access modules for ESOL Learners mostly migrated over from the British Council’s Nexus website. These are online activities that learners can complete by themselves or with the support of their teacher. Access the modules on our learning platform.