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Leaders in Language
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our Leaders in Language project will provide mobility experiences in a Vocational Education and Training (VET) setting. We will work with participants who have recently completed a vocational English Language Teacher Training course to: provide them with relevant work experience, give them the chance to live and work abroad and gain inter-cultural awareness, upskill them and allow them to develop recently acquired skills in a supportive and guided environment, introduce or develop their own language learning and therefore increase their understanding of their future students and put them in the position to engage in knowledge transfer with teachers of English in another European country. Every year UKLC recruits more than 100+ English teachers from all over the UK and offers them residential positions. UKLC receives a large number of applications from people who have completed the appropriate courses and qualifications but do not display the relevant key competencies and skills, largely due to an absence of relevant work experience. This project will enable our participants to demonstrate on their CVs and through their Europass mobility that they are more skilled, have improved language competence, can work independently and are subsequently more employable to us and others in the field of English Language Teaching. UKLC have a track record for coordinating mobility projects to up-skill VET learners and increase their employability in this sector. Building upon successes of previous years, our project will take 50 recently [or soon to be] qualified learners from vocational training courses such as Cambridge CELTA or Trinity TESOL who want to pursue a career in the teaching of English as a foreign language but who have no vocational experience. We will provide them with an intensive training programme specific to our area of expertise (the teaching of young learners) and then they will attend a four week placement with our partner in Spain.Vocational Sector: Education & Language Objectives & Impact: The mobility will provide essential vocational experience to enable them to teach English confidently by offering a preparation programme, including sessions on how to teach Young Learners. These are supplemented with certificates in Sports Leadership (Day Cert) and basic First Aid.An objective of this project is to upskill and address gaps in the learners’ key competencies and as a result make them employable within the language market, either with our organisation or our host agencies. On return from the project, participants will be offered employment with UKLC which will give them the chance to work with EU students, gain further teaching practice and further increase their employability. This is a significant impact as our learners' through their mobilities will come into contact with approximately 2500 EU students. This will increase inter-cultural awareness amongst this group and may help inspire and motivate further mobilities European wide from within participating countries.Furthermore, participants may then find work teaching English aboard within Europe which helps to promote language learning and linguistic diversity. In summary the project has the goal of improving the personal development of all learners involved and ultimately providing the opportunity to succeed in future employment and training.
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