Welcome to TeachingEnglish: Organising the classroom
How will the course help you?
Learn how to use boards and other classroom resources effectively. Develop strategies for promoting social language, starting and finishing lessons and managing different interaction patterns in class.
What does the course include?
Organising the classroom is a free self-study training course, which is divided into three-hour modules. It also includes:
- A dedicated Facebook community of course participants with up-to-date insight, resources and innovative ideas for you to try out.
- Engaging discussions taking place in the Facebook community
- Live events with your course tutor and language teaching experts.
- A free workbook with extra learning content and resources (coming soon!).
What will you learn?
- Module 1: Understanding board work
The aim of this module is to provide an understanding of board work and how boards can be used effectively in the classroom. You will consider how to organise a board to help learning, think of solutions to common issues with boards as well as discuss how learners can be more involved at the board.
- Module 2: Social language in the classroom
The aim of this module is to explore how to develop and promote social language in class. It also considers effective strategies for starting and finishing lessons. You will identify elements and phrases that can be used to start a lesson, discuss how to promote social language using informal conversation as well as choose techniques to help learners to interact more confidently.
- Module 3: Managing interaction and resources
The aim of this module is to look at how to manage classrooms through interaction, and it also looks at resources to support learning. It explores a range of interaction patterns, including pair work and group work, and how to manage them. You will select interaction patterns based on activity type, use different ways of grouping in different classroom layouts as well as plan for the management of interaction, space and resources.
When is the course?
Organising the classroom will be open from 7 January-31 March 2026. Enrolment will open soon.
How much does the course cost?
The course is free.
How can you get a certificate?
For participants who successfully complete all modules, there will be a downloadable certificate of completion at the end of the course.
What level of English do you need?
Minimum CEFR B1
What can you do now?
If you're interested in learning more about organising the classroom, you can:
- Get teaching ideas from our Courses for teachers Facebook community.
- Access learning content related to our courses on Facebook (Facebook account required).
- Access teaching resources on TeachingEnglish.