Expand your professional profile with specialized exam prep skills!

Get to know the format of the Academic and General versions of the IELTS Exam in detail, including the various sections and what students can expect in each. Learn test-taking strategies you can integrate into your lesson plans that will help prepare your students for success on exam day.   

Learning Objectives
 

When you graduate, you’ll be able to:

• Explain all the features, time limits, formats, sections, and grading criteria of the IELTS exam

• Apply general and specific test-taking strategies to help prepare students for the IELTS exam

• Apply suggestions for preparing students for each of the four parts of the IELTS exam

• Explain how to manage students’ expectations around the exam and the instruction you can provide

• Apply activities and teaching techniques that encourage positive test taking strategies

• Describe ways a teacher can focus instruction on preparing students for various parts of the exam

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Requirements to take this course:

 

• 18 years of age.

• An intermediate or higher level of English proficiency (B1 level, according to the CEFR, the Common European Framework Reference for Language).

• Teaching experience or a general TEFL/TESOL certificate (recommended).