This in-service training is designed for teachers of Estonian as a second language in general education and vocational education schools. It will offer these teachers the chance to enrich their teaching strategies using active learning methods and to learn more about best practice in the teaching of Estonian as a second language and in integrated language and subject studies.

 

The teachers obtain an overview of the European framework document on language learning and European principles in the field.

 

The in-service training course is the equivalent of 3 CP (120 hours). The courses will be held between November 2008 and December 2010. They will begin with topics and issues that are of importance to teachers today. The aim is to introduce teachers of Estonian as a second language working in general and vocational schools as supporters of learning in the language environment to methods of shaping students within the classroom and to present them with methods of active learning and ways in which they activate their students. The final two courses will begin in February and September 2010.