NEW COURSES FOR 2008
We are now nearly half way through our biggest summer at Pilgrims, which despite being one of the wettest summers in history is proving to be a great success!
It's so good to see so many familiar faces and so many friends and colleagues we have met around the world and indeed here on the hilltop in Canterbury. Though we are only half way through our summer programme we are now pleased to be able to announce our new course titles for 2008...
Quite a lot of people who have been on one summer course with us at Pilgrims are keen to come back and try another one. People will often start with a catch-all course like Creative Methodology, or English for Teachers. A couple of years later we see some of these faces back again on more specialized courses: they take Multiple Intelligences or Transactional Analysis, or NLP for Teachers.
Given the enthusiasm and energy of these returnees we feel there is a practical need to offer new courses each year. We also want to offer new courses as our own areas of knowledge, competence and expertise expand. There are practical, market and creative joy reasons for not staying with the same set of courses year after year.
METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING SPOKEN GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE
3 August - 16 August 2008
The aims of the course are twofold:
- to bring you up-to-date with the discoveries in the area of the grammar of oral English
- To show you many good ways of teaching this new knowledge to your students.
You will be taught by top methodologists who have bent their minds to creating a new methodology for teaching this thrilling new language knowledge we simply did not have 15 years ago. To prepare for this course read Carter and McCarthy's CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH, CUP, 2006
TEACHING THROUGH MUSIC AND VISUAL ART
20 July - 2 August 2008
This course will appeal broadly to any teacher aware of the huge emotional power of music and visual art, to any teacher who enjoys music and painting will appeal to teachers who has worked in the Waldorf environment (Rudolph Steiner) and to teachers influenced by Project Zero and Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence thinking. It will also appeal to teachers tired of dead textbooks and confronted with eager, difficult teenagers who need to be richly fed.
MAKING THE MOST OF A COURSE BOOK
6 July - 19 July 2008
Some of us are stuck with a course book we did not choose. The situation can look and feel grim. This course will offer you a plethora of ways in which you can turn dross into gold and in which you can bring the course book to life, burrowing into it, using every part of it but in new and creative ways. In the last analysis the course book 'is a good or as bad as you make it' and with these two weeks in Canterbury behind you will be able to breathe life into even the flattest of books. To pre-taste the course have a look at HUMANISING YOUR COURSE BOOK, Rinvolucri, Delta 2002.
The view from the University campus down onto Canterbury Cathedral will be as beautiful next year is it is this year. Please come and enjoy it with us.
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