Our teacher training department at alpha beta piccadilly deals with training second and foreign language teachers offering a wide choice of training opportunities which are also open to external teachers.

For further information please contact our heads of department:
German in Bolzano / Bozen: arlt@alphabeta.it
German in Merano / Meran: deutsch.mr@alphabeta.it
Italian in Merano / Meran: ivanagozzi@alphabeta.it
Italian in Bolzano / Bozen: casagrande@alphabeta.it
English in Bolzano / Bozen: marsh-hunn@alphabeta.it

The sessions we are offering in 2012 are as follows:

one-week summer workshops for English Teachers

The participants can choose among three different workshops, each of one week:

1. Methodology and Language for Primary Teachers
2. Creative Methodology for the English Middle and Secondary Classroom
3. English Reinforcement for Middle and Secondary School Teachers

Seminar language: English
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano / Bozen
Date: 27 - 31 August 2012
Time: 9.00-17.00
Cost: € 125
Trainers: Pete Marsh-Hunn, Seàn O’Toole, Judy Board, Jonathan Shave

one-week summer workshops for English Teachers

The participants can choose among three different workshops, each of one week:

1. Creative Methodology for the English Middle and Secondary Classroom
2. English Reinforcement for Middle and Secondary School Teachers
3. Methodology and Language for Middle and Secondary School Teachers

Seminar language: English
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano / Bozen
Date: 9 - 13 July 2012
Time: 9.00-17.00
Cost: € 125
Trainers: Pete Marsh-Hunn, Seàn O’Toole, Judy Board, Jonathan Shave

one-week summer workshops for English Teachers

The participants can choose among three different workshops, each of one week:

1. Creative Methodology for the English Middle and Secondary Classroom
2. Methodology and Language for Primary Teachers
3. English Reinforcement for Primary School Teachers

Seminar language: English
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano / Bozen
Date: 25 - 29 June 2012
Time: 9.00-17.00
Cost: € 125
Trainers: Pete Marsh-Hunn, Seàn O’Toole, Judy Board, Jonathan Shave

Training seminar for Italian teachers

Lexical Approach - strategies & techniques

Seminar language: Italian
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Merano/Meran
Date: 4 May 2012
Time: 14.30 - 17.30
Cost: 15 €
Trainer: Licia Casagrande & Ivana Gozzi

Training seminar for English teachers

CPD - Continuing Professional Development

Seminar language: English
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano / Bozen
Date: 4 Mai 2012
Time: 10.45 - 13.45
Cost: 15 €
Trainers: Alexandra Theoktisto

Training seminar for German teachers

Gesprächsrekonstruktion

Seminar language: German

Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Meran/Merano
Date: 27 aprile 2012
Time: 14.30 - 17.00
Cost: 15 Euro
Trainer: Irmgard Harbich Alber

Training seminar for language teachers

Interactive Whiteboard (Smartboard) for beginners

Seminar language: Italian
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano/Bozen
Date: 26 April 2012
Time: 10.30 - 13.30
Cost: 15 €
Trainers: Inger Tan-Dietrich

Preparing seminar for the "Teaching Knowledge Test" (TKT) of the University of Cambridge

Module 3: Managing the teaching and learning process

This module consisting of eight sessions is part of the courses in preparation for the TKT-exam of the University of Cambridge, which can be taken in June 2012 at alpha beta piccadilly.

Seminar language: English
Target group: English teachers with at least a B 1 level of English
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano / Bozen
Date: 20 April 2012
Time: 14.30-17.30
Cost: € 100 (for the complete module, exam fee excluded)
Trainers: Pete Marsh-Hunn, Seàn O’Toole, Judy Board, Jonathan Shave

Training seminar for English teachers

Improving students' motivation

Seminar language: English
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano/Bozen
Date: 13 April 2012
Time: 10.00 - 13.00
Cost: 15 €
Trainers: Alexandra Theoktisto

Workshop for English teachers

Assessing English language learners' skills using the Cambridge ESOL Exams model
as part of the conference for English teachers in South Tyrol At the Heart of Learning

Site: Bozen/Bolzano
Date: 12 April 2012
Time: 14.30 - 17.30
Trainers: Seàn O'Toole

X2 Training seminar for German teachers

Prüfungsvorbereitung B1 und B2

Seminar language: German
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano/Bozen
Date: 5 April 2012
Time: 9.00 - 12.30
Trainer: Georg Stoumbus, Wiltrud Arlt, Priska de Marco

Training seminar for potential teachers of German as a foreign language

Learning how to teach, Part 8 - lesson planning

Seminar language: German
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano / Bozen
Date: 16 March 2012
Time: 14.30-17.30
Cost: € 140 (for all eight parts)
Trainers: Georg Stoumbos, Wiltrud Arlt, Priska De Marco

Training seminar for German teachers

Sprachanalyse

Seminar language: German
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano/Bozen
Date: 9 March 2012
Time: 9.00 - 10.30
Trainer: Wiltrud Arlt, Caterina Sabatino

Training seminar for potential teachers of German as a foreign language

Learning how to teach, Part 7 - communicative grammar II

Seminar language: German
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano / Bozen
Date: 2 March 2012
Time: 14.30-17.30
Cost: € 140 (for all eight parts)
Trainers: Georg Stoumbos, Wiltrud Arlt, Priska De Marco

Training seminar for German teachers

Sprachanalyse - Konnektoren, Adjektivdeklination

Seminar language: German
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano/Bozen
Date: 2 March 2012
Time: 9.00 - 10.30
Trainer: Wiltrud Arlt, Caterina Sabatino

Training seminar for potential teachers of German as a foreign language

Learning how to teach, Part 6 - communicative grammar II

Seminar language: German
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano / Bozen
Date: 10 February 2012
Time: 14.30-17.30
Cost: € 140 (for all eight parts)
Trainers: Georg Stoumbos, Wiltrud Arlt, Priska De Marco

 

Training seminar for German teachers

Bewertung der Abschlusstests

Seminar language: German
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Merano/Meran
Date: 3 February 2012
Time: 15.00 - 18.00
Trainer: Irmgard Harbich Alber

Training seminar for English teachers

Global Assessment

Seminar language: English
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bolzano/Bozen
Date: 3 February 2012
Time: 16.00 - 20.00
Cost: 15 €
Trainers: Seàn O'Toole

Training seminar for Italian teachers

Analisi di materiali didattici per l’italiano

Seminar language: Italian
Site: alpha beta piccadilly - Bozen / Bolzano
Date: 21 January 2012
Time: 9.00-12.00 e 14.30-17.30
Cost: € 15
Trainers: Carlo Guastalla, Formatore Alma Edizioni - Roma