Commercial Bank joins British Council to train English teachers in Kandy
View(s):The Commercial Bank’s CSR Trust in collaboration with the British Council in Kandy conducted a training programme in Kandy recently to enhance the skills of 200 English language teachers in the district.
Teachers were selected from 153 schools from four educational zones for this programme, conducted at Kingswood College, Kandy.
The programme in the form of a road show consisted of a series of training sessions conducted by eight trainers with one training coordinator and logistical support. Participants rotated around a series of four sessions, according to a bank statement.
The primary objectives of the programme were to make teachers more confident in using English in the English language classroom, better able to exploit their text books to develop speaking and listening skills, to increase the ratio of pupil talking time as opposed to teacher talking time in their classrooms, and to use a more child-centred and activity-based methodology in the classroom.