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'How to' Workshop for Teachers

How to organise and run courses in Professional Speaking for Migrants

Auckland 19 May     for more details click here

Wellington 15 June  for more details click here

 

Professional Speaking for Migrants: a “how to” workshop for teachers

Many migrants with excellent work skills and with qualifications which are in demand in New Zealand workplaces lack the ability to speak with confidence and clarity about what they can offer employers. Spouses of some migrants find it hard to settle because their lack of English excludes them from contributing to voluntary organisations, to events at their children’s school, or to the community. Completing a Speech New Zealand Professional Speaking course will greatly improve their English and give them a well-recognised New Zealand qualification to add to their CVs.

Speech NZ is offering a one-day workshop for speech and communication teachers on how to set up and run a Professional Speaking for Migrants course. The workshop will be offered by Margriet Theron, who ran such a course in Rotorua last year.

The workshop will run from 9.30 am to 2.30 pm on Friday, 15 June 2012 in the Speech NZ Boardroom in Molesworth Street, Wellington. The fee of $50 per person includes a light lunch, a handbook with full teaching resources, and a suggested timetable and budget for an eight-week, two hours per week course.

 The workshop is for teachers of communication, English as a second language, and Speech and Drama who want to add to the courses they offer and who want to work with adults; for retired teachers looking for opportunities to use their English language and teaching skills; for private training providers interested in teaching Speech NZ’s Professional Speaking syllabus; and for anyone else with good English skills who wants to contribute to the successful settlement of migrants.

 A full programme for the day is available from theronm@yahoo.com. To register for the workshop, please send an email to Maureen Gray at speechnz@speechnz.co.nz

 

 

The class of migrants who gained the Introductory Certificate in Professional Speaking in Rotorua in December 2011. They were from China, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Fiji, and South Africa, joined by one student from Ngati Pikiao who needed public speaking skills for her community work.