Consultancy Service Brochure: English Language Quality Standards Programme, British Council

CONSULTANCY SERVICE ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUALITY STANDARDS PROGRAMME www.britishcouncil.in

CONSULTANCY SERVICE ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUALITY STANDARDS PROGRAMME The Consultancy Service will help you to prepare for membership of the English Language Quality Standards Membership Network.

At the end of the visit we will: Ÿ

The service consists of three elements:

provide you with an outline report and will begin working with you on your action plan and identifying initial developmental resources.

1. a diagnostic visit and report.

Within two weeks of the visit we will:

2. support for the establishment of an action plan.

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3. a customised pathway of relevant online resources.

The diagnostic visit, which lasts for one day, will provide a thorough report on your school’s provision in relation to the Quality Standards Framework. It will highlight the areas where you are meeting the standards and make recommendations where you are not.

send you a finalised report. You should read this carefully, complete your action plan and send this to us.

Within two weeks of receiving your completed action plan we will: Ÿ

send you a customised pathway of relevant online resources.

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Take the self-diagnostic test on our website.

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Download the Consultancy Service form from our website. Complete the form and send it to us along with the Consultancy Service fees.

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The British Council will contact you and arrange a date for the diagnostic visit.

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With reference to the Preparation for Review section of the Membership Guide, draw up a schedule for the diagnostic visit.

How to enrol Ÿ

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Visit our website www.britishcouncil.org.in/english-qualitystandards Read Part Two of the Membership Guide and familiarise yourself with the requirements for joining the ELQS Membership Network and the processes involved in becoming a member.

Look carefully at the Quality Standards Framework to familiarise yourself with the standards required at level 4 (Integrated). Members of the ELQS Network must be operating at this level in every standard in the framework.

Diagnostic visit For the visit to be as effective as possible, you will need to prepare carefully.

The afternoon will focus on: Ÿ

classroom observation. You should prepare for this by referring to the Classroom observation section of the Membership Guide.

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discussion of the consultant’s findings in relation to the documentary review and classroom observation. This discussion will lay the foundations of the report and action plan.

The morning of the visit will focus on: Ÿ

the results of the self-diagnostic test.

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documentary review. With reference to the Documentary evidence section of the Membership Guide, you will need to make available as many of the required documents as you have currently available.

Diagnostic visit schedule

Action plan template

Final report

The consultant will provide a preliminary assessment of your English language programmes of study against the Quality Standards Framework in the form of an outline report. The consultant will use this to work with you to begin completing your action plan template.

The final report is a complete assessment of your English language programmes of study against each of the standards in the Quality Standards Framework.

You should use this to complete your action plan template and begin implementing your action planning.

Customised pathway of relevant online resources This is designed to provide you with the necessary knowledge base, skills and reflection time to prepare for membership of the Quality Standards Membership Network. All the resources are centred around the requirements of each of the ten standards. They include input texts, engagement tasks, assignments, suggested activities and useful links. The resources

are self-access and you are strongly recommended to make use of the portfolio option to record your answers to the engagement tasks and you reflections.

The customised pathway we provide will be based on the completed action plan template that you send to us.

Consultants The consultants are senior English Language Teaching professionals, trained and contracted by the British Council.

For more information contact: British Council 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110 001 Telephone (toll-free): 1800 102 4353 Email: elqsp.india@britishcouncil.org

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