Benefits for Teachers

Exam Benefits for Teachers

The benefits you will have if you prepare learners for a City & Guilds IESOL:

• it helps boost your sense of professional achievement
• your learners will work harder if they know they are preparing for an exam and they have a target to reach
• your reputation as an excellent teacher will grow commensurately with the number of successful learners passing our international English exams
• your learners will develop an even higher esteem for your professionalism if you have a proven record of successful exam preparation
• with the number of successful exams you will be able to prove your high worth to your employer by using the exams as an objective measure of performance
• you will be able to reward your students with a recognised certificate, which is key to their future successes in studies as well as their motivation
• support materials available on www.cityandguildsenglish..com will save you time in preparing for your classes and give you more confidence and inspiration for the exam preparation process

Features - benefits:

Communicative exam:

• Your students will be able to become functional users of English.
• Your students are assessed based on what they CAN DO in and with the language rather than looking for what they do not know.
• In preparing for a communicative exam you will find that your English classes will also become in communicative in nature and methodology - the ultimate demand of learners, school directors and parents.
• Classrooms applying the communicative method are more enjoyable for learners, which increases performance and motivation, while reduces absenteeism

mapped to the CEFR:

• you will be able to give your learners globally recognised standardised exam
• teaching along CEFR requirements will make your classes more aligned with internationally accepted teaching practice
• you will have the flexibility to use any support material for your classes/exam preparation that is equally mapped to the CEFR
• your students will be objectively assessed by external markers trained by City & Guilds along CEFR guidelines

Assessment of functional language use:

• Reduced exam specific preparation
• mistakes are viewed as tools for further learning and development rather than sources of punishment through score-deductions during exams - as long as they do not interfere with meaning transfer

Use of Performance Codes:

• Guidance and encoded reporting on how each student performed in each task of the Written or the Spoken exams can aid more targeted efforts on further study progression
• Information provided by City & Guilds markers on how well each of your student performed in a particular task of the Written and/or Spoken exam

Offered by approved centres:

• The students can sit for the exam at the school they attend (your institution)
• The students can sit for the exam with their own teachers
• You may have opportunities for professional networking with other institutions in the network of City & Guilds approved centres
• Both of which reduce exam anxiety and increase performance during the exams

Conducted by Interlocutors (examiners without assessment responsibilities):

If your school is an approved City & Guilds exam centre, your students will be able to sit for the exam at your school and under your supervision, either as invigilator (during the Written exam) or as interlocutor (during the Spoken Exam). This will:

• Reduce stage fright by students during the exam
• give you the authority to conduct an international examination at your institution as the students' teacher
• provide further opportunities for you to obtain extracurricular wages
• train you into an expert on how you can bring classroom atmosphere into the examination room
• enable you to concentrate on your candidate's language performance, as you do not need to assess

On-Demand:

Your students can sit for the exam at any time of the year by which you will be able to:

• examine students as and when they reach the desired level or progress from one level to the next
• adjust your exam dates to course completion or progress rather than complete the language course by a set exam date irrespective
• have the flexibility to enrol students for exams at different levels according to the progress they have made so no student is left unrewarded

Flexibility of Spoken and Written being 2 separate exams:

You will have the flexibility to focus on skills-specific exam preparation (on Reading, Listening, Writing on the one hand and Speaking on the other)

You will be able to reward your students with a Written exam even if they still need to develop their speaking skills at a particular level (or enrol them for a Spoken exam at a lower level).

IF registered for both Written and Spoken exams students can apply for an International ESOL Diploma free of charge. (N.B. The Diploma is a combination of City & Guilds International ESOL and International Spoken ESOL, assessing all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing)

In case of a Fail only the Spoken or the Written exam needs to be repeated rather than the whole

Internationally recognised:

your successes as a teacher will give your learners direct advantages: through career and academic opportunities entailed by City & Guilds IESOL exams

International ESOL Diploma: your students will have an exam that is required for obtaining UK visas for study and/or work (for non-EU residents only)