NILE‘s accredited face-to-face teacher development courses run in July and August every year. Since 1995 we have trained thousands of teachers in the small, friendly city of Norwich.
A wide range of courses, expert trainers and a dedicated student services team make participants come back year after year, and we look forward to welcoming new and old participants back in the summer of 2025.
Most courses are two weeks long with 25 hours' teaching per week. Courses take place in our state-of-the-art teaching building a five-minute walk from Norwich Market, and at peak times also at our sister organisation INTO's premises at the UEA Campus.
NILE’s experienced trainers are specialists in their chosen fields of ELT and, using a combination of theory and practical application, they work hard to offer training sessions that meet your group's specific needs and priorities. They also support you in considering how to adapt the content to your own professional context and creating a strategy for putting your ideas into practice, getting the most out of your course for both you and your colleagues back home.
You’ll have access to excellent resources, including NILE's specialist ELT library and a digital platform with every course.
Many of our open-enrolment courses also offer you the opportunity to work towards the Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers as an extension to your 2-week programme.
All NILE’s accredited courses involve a significant element of English language improvement and/or the development of language awareness.
Our Accommodation and Welfare team is always on hand, and throughout your time in Norwich you will have the chance to meet, talk to and share experiences with international colleagues. You will also be treated to a rich and varied Social and Cultural Programme, leaving you with life-long memories to go alongside the skills and practices you develop during your stay.
Download Summer courses and Dates 2025
Creativity with Young Learners
NEW COURSE: Explore the principles and practice of teaching English to young learners with a creative twist, to build an engaging and lively learning environment in your classroom. Develop intercultural and emotional awareness to teach language through active pedagogies, including drama, art, literature and play.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: August 2025
Global Citizenship in Language Education
Engage in the move towards ‘Global Citizenship’ with this course which links critical theory with the latest issues, approaches and classroom practices.
Develop your ability to empower both you and your learners to become active, engaged global citizens.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July 2025
Environmental Sustainability in Language Teaching
Discover new ways to engage with your learners about the climate crisis, by addressing topics like climate justice and making a difference, and connecting lessons and institution-wide projects to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July 2025
Teaching Teenagers
Explore what motivates teenagers' learning and the implications in the 21st Century classroom. Add ideas and activities to your own bank of resources and consider assessment, homework and digital tools as well as diversity, equity and inclusion in your classroom.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July, August 2025
Testing, Evaluation and Assessment
Raise your awareness of key principles in language assessment by looking at the full range of formative and summative purposes of testing and assessment in language education, and applying them to test design, construction and evaluation.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: August 2025
Teaching English for Specific Academic Purposes
NEW COURSE: Familiarise yourself with the key features of English for Specific Academic Purposes, including the opportunities and challenges for teachers, learners and other stakeholders. Explore contemporary approaches to materials design and assessment, and develop a lasting personal project.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: August 2025
Trainer Development: a course for Teacher Educators
Familiarise yourself with the skills and qualities needed by teacher educators and raise your awareness of different models and practices in the area of Continuing Professional Development. Evaluate and design your own materials as well as a short, in-service or pre-service training course for a specific context.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July 2025
Teaching Young Learners
Examine principles and practices of Teaching English to Young Learners and evaluate and create materials suitable for young learners aged 6 to 12. Design communicative materials to teach language skills, develop effective classroom management skills, and explore art, drama, music, children's books and other authentic materials.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July 2025
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Develop the essential skills for CLIL teachers and explore materials and methodologies appropriate to CLIL. Raise your language awareness and linguistic competences while looking at key issues in course design and testing and assessment procedures in CLIL contexts.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July 2025
Advanced Language and Methodology
Explore the principles and practices of English language teaching and look at recent developments in teaching methodology by examining the relationship between language and methodology and reflecting on classroom activities and on your own teaching.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July, August 2025
