Teaching English in Pre-Primary Education

Further Information

NILE Online courses are highly interactive and learning takes place through varied and engaging multimedia content and the collaboration between participants from different contexts. All participants work on the same unit in the same week but there is a high level of flexibility within that time period to help you fit studying around your life and work. The interaction, via forums and other collaborative tools built into the platform, helps and encourages you to share ideas, ask questions, explore concepts and build up a community.

You need a computer, a headset (with microphone) and an Internet connection. Much of the course can be done on a mobile device, but a computer is needed for certain activities and tasks.

Participants have access to NILE's extensive ELT e-library and an innovative social and cultural programme. All NILE Online courses include an element of professional language development, i.e. language related to course content and/or the classroom.

Meet a course tutor: Sarah Hillyard

Sarah holds a Master’s Degree in Teaching English to Young Learners from the University of York, U.K. She has been a teacher and coordinator at pre-primary level for many years and is now ELT academic consultant for bilingual schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a tutor on NILE’s online course “Teaching English in Pre-Primary Education” and also writes professional development courses for teachers. She delivers webinars and face-to-face talks at conferences and schools. She is a freelance teacher trainer and writer for publishers like Macmillan Education. Her articles and blog posts focus mainly on using songs, stories and STEAM when teaching English to young learners. She is co-author and series consultant for Pearson’s pre-primary course “Little Stars” and primary course “Our Stories”.