The British Council and The National Centre for Teacher Professional Development of Georgia are happy to invite teachers of English to register for the Future English Online Teacher Community Programme (OTC).
Our Online Teacher Community Programme (OTC) is a 22-hour continuing professional development (CPD) programme for English teachers involved in general education. It is delivered through the British Council Online Teacher Community (OTC) platform.
You’ll complete three modules of our Teaching for Success programme (TfS), take part in highly interactive forums, join live sessions and submit self-reflective journals.
Teachers who successfully complete the training programme will receive acknowledgement of the activity (certificate) on the basis of general education professional development responsibilities.
The autumn 2023 programme takes place over six weeks alongside your normal teaching work. This is an important aspect of the programme because it allows you to be supported by facilitators and ELT experts, to try out new ideas and techniques in your classroom, and reflect on these with the support of an online community of practice.
The programme consists of the following components:
- Nine hours of self-access study of TfS modules
- Six hours of live sessions with a moderator or facilitator
- Three hours minimum contribution to asynchronous discussion forums (equivalent to a minimum of three posts and 18 comments per participant)
- Four hours spent completing your e-portfolio and self-reflection journals (three per each module plus one as an overall reflection on the OTC programme)
The programme will cover the following themes:
- Understanding assessment for learning
- Engaging with assessment for learning and professional practice: Assessing learning
- Understanding teaching for tests
Selection criteria
- You must be a Georgian citizen, teaching English at a school in the Georgian education system.
- You will need basic IT skills so that you can actively engage in activities within the Online Teacher Community platform. These include logging into email accounts, posting in forums, joining Zoom sessions, switching from different tabs and resetting passwords.
- Minimum English level: B1 – English is the working language of the platform and all content used and presented will be in English so you will need this level in order to be able to properly participate in teacher training content and discussions.
Registration deadline
Sunday 1 October 2023 (23.59 GE time – GMT +4)