Designing activities and lessons: concorso preparation

Designing Activities and Lessons: Concorso Preparation

In this practical course, you will learn how to design activities and lessons, as well as justify your pedagogical choices in concorso tasks with reference to theories, differentiation, inclusion, authentic materials, student groupings and the CEFR.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to Unit 2: Activities and lessons: theory and structures
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2. Resources: PowerPoint template, Lesson aims, Quadri di riferimento
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3. The oral exam: structure and sample tasks
4. Part 1: Sections of a lesson plan (updated for 2024 exam)
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5. Expansion task 1
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6. Expansion task 2: lesson aims and Indicazioni nazionali
7. Part 2: Theories of learning: Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism and Connectivism
8. Part 3 Expansion task
9. Part 3: Instructed Second Language Acquisition
10. Part 4: Structures: PPP, TTT, ESA, TBL and Flipped Classroom
11. Part 5: Previous concorso task
12. Further sources on learning theories, ISLA and TBLT
13. Ready for a quiz?
1. Welcome to Unit 3: Focus on the learner
2. Part 1: Learner centredness
3. Part 2: Personalisation and differentiation
4. Part 3: Teaching mixed-level classes: ideas
5. Part 4: Specific Learning Difficulties and inclusion
6. Expansion task: inclusion, laws and key terminology
7. Part 5: Previous concorso task
8. Ready for a quiz?
1. Welcome to Unit 4: Activities
2. Part 1: Cooperative learning
3. Part 1 Expansion task and references
4. Part 2: Grouping students: individual, pair, group and whole-class work
5. Part 3: Evaluating lesson plans and justifying pedagogical choices
6. Video: analysis of a lesson plan
7. Metacognition
1. Welcome to Unit 5: Materials
2. Part 1: Authenticity
3. Part 1: Further sources
4. Part 2: Native and non-native speakers in materials
5. Part 3: Previous concorso task
1. Welcome to Unit 6: Working with the CEFR
2. Part 1: The CEFR
3. Part 2: Application task
4. Part 3: Previous concorso task
5. Ready for a quiz?
1. Welcome to Unit 7: Assessment, peer assessment and self assessment
2. Part 1: Types of assessment
3. Part 2: Self-assessment and peer assessment
4. Part 3: Sample self-assessment activity and its rationale
1. Revision quiz: key concepts
2. New: match CEFR descriptors and CEFR levels
1. Thank you so much for completing our course! Can you now give us some feedback?
2. Would you like to learn more?
1. Lesson plan template and sample lesson plan

About this course

€59,00
50 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

Course reviews

This course is everything I was looking for: it's great!

Sofia Parenti

Thank you LanguagEd for writing this excellent course. It explains how to plan lessons with practical activities and some theory and it also tackles the conc...

Thank you LanguagEd for writing this excellent course. It explains how to plan lessons with practical activities and some theory and it also tackles the concorso tracce. I wish I had found this course before spending money on books!

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Davvero ottimo

Alberta Coria

un corso fatto molto bene, struttura chiara e lineare. non avevo mai trovato un corso in inglese impeccabile ma che fa riferimento alla scuola italiana (che ...

un corso fatto molto bene, struttura chiara e lineare. non avevo mai trovato un corso in inglese impeccabile ma che fa riferimento alla scuola italiana (che a me serve per la preparazione al concorso). mi son piaciute anche le risposte alle tracce aperte visto ch mi sto preparando all'ordinario.

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Concise and appropriate

rossella pozzi

very well done, a lot of materials to study, reliable tests and Concorso Essay Questions with deep analysis as samples

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Very well laid out and rich in content. Excellent for the...

Roberto Ciampi

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Useful

Cristina Semino

Useful and interesting

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High-quality lessons designed by language education academics based on the latest research, all in the same place. Each unit starts with a summary and continues with expansion tasks and quizzes, so you decide how much to study of each topic.
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Audios, videos, PowerPoints and texts

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Estimated time for completion: 20 hours

Based on feedback from participants, the course can be finished in approximately 20 hours, though this may vary based on your needs and style. When you finish the course, email us to get your certificate of completion!

Course authors

Lead Instructor Chiara Bruzzano

Chiara Bruzzano (BA, MA, Cambridge DELTA 1, PhD) is a teacher trainer and researcher in language education. She is the founder and manager of LanguagEd, with which she has helped hundreds of Italian teachers pass their concorso. After teaching English in Italy, Spain and the UK, she gained her PhD at the University of Leeds with a research study on the teaching of English listening in Italian high schools. She is now the Principal Investigator on her research project "Forced Migrants, IELTS and Access to Higher Education" for the British Council. Chiara has been a language teacher trainer for many years and she specialises in the Italian school context. She has collaborated with a number of schools in Italy and is an English trainer at the Università degli Studi di Milano. She also collaborates on TESOL MA degrees with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the University of Leeds. Chiara has published research and presented at international conferences on language teaching methodology. Further, she has developed teacher training materials for Oxford University Press Italia, and she is a resident writer for Modern English Teacher.

Andrew Woodbury

A native of Toronto, Canada, Andrew is a teacher, writer, and entrepreneur. He is Co-Director of English language startup Learn YOUR English. Andrew has been a language teacher since 2010, working both in Canada and abroad. He has taught a range of student and teacher training courses, and his current interests include English for Academic Purposes. More recently, he has been teaching EAP at College and Universities in Canada since 2015. He has a passion for teacher education, development, and working with teachers to ensure they not only receive the support they require, but that they are also provided the tools to take control of their own self-directed development. Andrew also contributes to and produces podcasts. He currently produces two podcasts: the Learn YOUR English podcast, and Incomplete Past. He is also the co-host of Corey & Woody IsoCast.

Contributor Sylvia Provenzano

Sylvia is a Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Bologna and an Examiner. Growing up bilingual between the UK and Italy, Sylvia has always pursued her passion for languages: she studied Modern Foreign Languages and Literature at the Catholic University of Milan and completed her MA in TESOL and Translation Studies at Aston University in Birmingham. She has taught English in a wide range of educational contexts in Spain, Italy and UK with a focus on exam preparation, ESP and Academic English. She has also been Course Director in Cambridge and has taught online to refugees and displaced people for several years. Sylvia is currently studying for her Cambridge DELTA. She is interested in English as a Foreign Language and especially in Communicative Language Teaching. Find out more about her on this page: shorturl.at/bCI24

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