Aims of Secondary school teachers’ courses in Scotland
- To develop cultural awareness and understanding of contemporary Britain and focusing on Scotland
- To enhance methodological expertise in the teaching of English to teenagers
- To enhance participants’ discursive skills, update their vocabulary and gain new ideas and materials for use in the classroom
- To use Internet and other ICT resources in the classroom
- To use novels, short stories, songs and varied media in the classroom
- To debate current issues and to (re)discover contemporary British personalities