Seminar 1 - ELT textbooks (2)

Seminar 2 & 3- Teaching grammar
Presenting and practising grammar - techniques
Mistakes and correction
Grammar and accuracy in the Common Europe and Framework of Reference

Seminar 4 & 5 - Teaching speaking
Fluency and accuracy
Designing tasks and materials for speaking
Organizing time and space in speaking activities
Sources for speaking activities
Features of communicative activities
Types of communicative activities
How to get your students to talk.
Speaking and spoken interaction in the Common Europe and Framework of Reference

Seminar 6 - Teaching listening
The process and product dichotomy
Bottom-up and top-down approaches
Principles of teaching listening
Designing tasks, adapting tasks
Sources of materials for listening activities
Working with videos
Listening in the Common Europe and Framework of Reference

Seminar 7 - Teaching reading
The process and product dichotomy in relation to reading
Bottom-up and top-down approaches in relation to reading
Principles of teaching reading
Designing and adapting tasks for reading
Graded readers, school and class libraries
Using literature
Reading in the Common Europe and Framework of Reference

Seminar 8 - Teaching writing
The process and product dichotomy in relation to writing
Principles of teaching writing
Designing and adapting tasks for writing
Marking, grading and feedback
Writing in the Common Europe and Framework of Reference

Seminar 9 - Testing, assessment, teaching for exams
Testing, assessment, grading
Designing language tests and exams
Validity and reliability
Types of assessment
The washback effect
Preparing students for exams
The design of the Nová maturita
Preparing students for the Nová maturita

Seminar 10 - Content-integrated learning
Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Teaching English for Academic Purposes
Content and Language Integrated Learning
English as a Medium of Instruction
Business English

Seminar 11 - Curricular documents
Czech curricular documents - overview, critical evaluation, benefits and practical implications
The Common European Framework of Reference

Seminar 12 - Teacher development
Teacher autonomy
Continuous development in all areas.
Overview of recommended books, journals etc.
Conferences/seminars, websites for teachers
Classroom research
Keeping motivated
Growing as an expert, growing as a person
Reflective teaching
The first year and beyond
Kariérní řád
Keeping sane - preventing the burnout syndrome

Seminar 13 - Practicum seminar + Cooperation at schools
Organizace, význam a realizace povinné praxe
Teacher cooperation
Teacher-parent interaction and cooperation