Award in education and training for lipreading teachers
Email us to enrol: deafedu@citylit.ac.uk
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- Start Date: 19 Sep 2025End Date: 10 Oct 2025Fri (Daytime): 10:00 - 17:00OnlineFull fee £599.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £599.00
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What is the course about?
This is an introductory professional training course for people interested in teaching lipreading to adults. This course leads to the ‘threshold licence to teach’ national qualification, validated by City and Guilds. This professional teaching qualification is required before, or as, you start teaching in the lifelong learning sector. The content of this course is geared especially towards the teaching of lipreading to adults.
This a blended course. This course by itself does not qualify you to teach lipreading. To learn how to teach lipreading, and attain the qualification to do that, it should be combined with GT106, the Lipreading Teacher Training Course. The 2 courses are linked. The theory of teaching adults is covered on this course, while the techniques and practical lipreading teaching skills are covered on GT106, the Lipreading Teacher Training Course which starts just after this course has finished.
This is a live online course. You will need:
- Internet connection. The classes work best with Chrome.
- A computer with microphone and camera is best (e.g. a PC/laptop/iMac/MacBook), or a tablet/iPad/smart phone/iPhone if you don’t have a computer. The classes work best using a desktop device. You can access the class using a tablet or phone but the screen size will limit your ability to lipread.
We will contact you with joining instructions before your course starts.
What will we cover?
The course will include:
Theory:
• The characteristics of the adult learner
• Roles, responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning
• Understanding inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learning
• The principles of assessment in lifelong learning; how to check your students are learning
Practice:
Compulsory teaching practice in your peer group (microteaching) takes place on the main Lipreading Teacher Training Course GT106 afterwards.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
• Demonstrate you understand the characteristics of the adult learner and barriers to learning
• Recognise your roles and responsibilities and boundaries as a teacher, and establish ground rules with learners
• Plan a session for adults
• Teach your peers effectively in microteaching sessions
• Choose appropriate teaching/training methods and strategies for teaching lipreading
• Select and use equipment and resources for teaching
• Describe some strategies for managing groups
• Use an inclusive approach in your teaching.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
In order to get the most from this course you should be able to:
• Express yourself clearly, fluently and accurately, both verbally and in written English
• Research, read, comprehend and analyse text
• Write concisely, using different styles, format and structure for different purposes, applying accuracy in grammar, punctuation and spelling
No formal academic qualifications are required, although you will need to demonstrate that you can work at
Level 3 (‘A’ level standard).
Acceptance onto the course follows a successful interview and a written English assessment.
Any work submitted to gain entry onto a course, including an application form and assessment, needs to be the student’s own work. Any work suspected to be produced by generative AI tools will not be considered.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
We use lectures, distance learning, demonstrations, group work, pair work, individual work, handouts, tests, teaching practice, tutorial, written assignments, visits and observation.
You will write assignments in your own time and compile an electronic coursework portfolio containing assignments, session plans, teaching material, tutor assessments and self-evaluations.
The course uses Google Classroom, a Virtual Learning Environment. Resources, discussion and news forums will all be available on this site.
In addition, you will be required to:
• Do some research on your own as guided by your tutor
• Participate in forum discussions.
We encourage you to either take part in or observe lipreading classes. You will have access to City Lit’s online lipreading classes.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
We recommended you purchase one of the recommended books for this course. You will be given an up-to-date reading list to choose from.
Paper, pens, a course folder to organise session handouts, task sheets and notes from sessions, dividers, memory stick, printer ink and other stationery items
• Cost of travel and/or staying in London for your final microteaching assessment at City Lit in June 2024 2025 2025 (to be arranged by student)
• Membership of Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults (ATLA). Student membership is currently free.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
This course is the minimum qualification you need in order to start teaching adults.
You can continue from here to the PGCE/Cert.Ed. Your course tutor can signpost you to further courses and appropriate advice.
GT106 Lipreading Teacher Training Course.
As an ATLA student member, you could attend ATLA national and regional training days.
Lorraine’s career working with deaf people spans more than 35 years. Following her training at City Lit, she became a hearing therapist and lipreading teacher within an NHS audiology department. She subsequently worked with deaf children in schools, supporting them with their language development. Lorraine joined City Lit in 2008 to manage the Acquired Hearing Loss programme and has since developed many initiatives, such as Lipreading and Managing Hearing Loss courses for armed Forces personnel and veterans, as well as training for Social Services staff to support deaf people. Lorraine enjoys teaching all the varied topics about deafness. She is a passionate champion of the benefits of lipreading classes and has spoken about the issues on BBC Radio 4 and at the House of Commons. She is currently training more lipreading teachers from across the U.K. Lorraine has a B.A. (Hons) in French and Russian.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.