Faculty of Arts and Culture

South Eastern University of Sri Lanka in partnership with Partners in Micro-development Inc. (PIMD - www.microdevpartners.org ) offers a series of four short courses in teaching English literacy (reading and writing) for primary and junior secondary English teachers .

This third course in the curriculum – The Lotus Reading Program -  shows teachers how to conduct reading lessons using the Lotus reading lesson structure which integrates further development of both word recognition and language comprehension skills. This course builds on the two previous courses in the curriculum which are pre-requisites.

The course runs for 7 weeks. Each week participants will attend a live Zoom class. To pass the course and receive a certificate participants must submit every assignment and meet the pass grade requirements for each assignment.

South Eastern University of Sri Lanka in partnership with Partners in Micro-development Inc. (PIMD - www.microdevpartners.org ) offers a series of four short courses in teaching English literacy (reading and writing) for primary and junior secondary English teachers .

This second course in the curriculum – Teaching Language and Reading Comprehension -  provides teachers with techniques for developing critical language comprehension skills for reading: vocabulary, background knowledge and knowledge building, awareness of language structures, and inference making.

The course runs for 6 weeks. Each week participants will attend (or watch the recording) a live Zoom class. To pass the course and receive a certificate participants must submit every assignment and meet the pass grade requirements for each assignment.

South Eastern University of Sri Lanka in partnership with Partners in Micro-development Inc. (PIMD - www.microdevpartners.org ) offers a series of four short courses in teaching English literacy (reading and writing) for primary and junior secondary English teachers .

This first course in the curriculum – Teaching Phonological Awareness and Phonics for English in Schools -  provides teachers with an overview of the science of reading multi-disciplinary field of research, an introduction to the seven language systems, and a complete teaching program for English phonological awareness and systematic and explicit phonics instruction. This program can be implemented alongside the Government English syllabi.

The course runs for 9 weeks. Each week participants will watch a pre-recorded video lecture with slides, and participate in Zoom tutorials.  To pass the course and receive a certificate participants must submit every assignment and meet the pass grade requirements for each assignment.

South Eastern University of Sri Lanka in partnership with Partners in Micro-development Inc. (PIMD - www.microdevpartners.org ) offers a series of four short courses in teaching English literacy (reading and writing) for primary and junior secondary English teachers .

This first course in the curriculum – Teaching Phonological Awareness and Phonics for English in Schools -  provides teachers with an overview of the science of reading multi-disciplinary field of research, an introduction to the seven language systems, and a complete teaching program for English phonological awareness and systematic and explicit phonics instruction. This program can be implemented alongside the Government English syllabi.

The course runs for 9 weeks. Each week participants will watch a pre-recorded video lecture with slides, and participate in Zoom tutorials.  To pass the course and receive a certificate participants must submit every assignment and meet the pass grade requirements for each assignment.