Join Karen Taylor, co-author of the Color Vowel Approach, for an overview of this innovative, brain-based method for teaching spoken English, pronunciation, vocabulary, and reading to English learners.
This 4-week interactive online course immerses you in the use the Color Vowel® Approach and our pronunciation app, Blue Canoe®. Expand your awareness as you master powerful, brain-based strategies for teaching learner pronunciation, vocabulary development, and oral fluency.
The Complete experience takes a 3-part approach. Each week, you will:
Color Vowel FAST© is an self-paced introduction to the Color Vowel® Approach. FAST training entails completing four video-based modules and taking companion quizzes for each module that you complete at your own pace. FAST training fulfills one of three requirements for Level 1 certification. Learn more about Level 1 certification requirements here.
Color Vowel Complete combines live training with asynchronous learning to immerse you in the use the Color Vowel® Approach and our pronunciation app, Blue Canoe. During this 5-week course, you will learn how to use powerful, brain-based strategies to teach learner pronunciation, vocabulary development, and oral fluency. Color Vowel Complete fulfills ALL of the requirements for Level 1 certification.
Color Vowel COMPLETE combines live training with asynchronous learning to immerse you in the use the Color Vowel® Approach and our pronunciation app, Blue Canoe. During this 5-week course, you will learn how to use powerful, brain-based strategies to teach learner pronunciation, vocabulary development, and oral fluency. Color Vowel COMPLETE fulfills ALL of the requirements for Level 1 certification.
Each week’s session is delivered live/interactively and recorded for replay in case you cannot attend one or more of the live meetings. This course is designed as a synchronous (live) course but may be completed asynchronously (by watching recorded meetings) as long as you are prepared to keep up with the weekly recordings, participate in our asynchronous course chat, and submit all assignments in a timely manner. Each week’s assignment is due 48 before the next live meeting. Participants receive personalized feedback on each assignment from a Color Vowel Teacher Trainer.
Color Vowel trained teachers know how to leverage the immense power of Blue Canoe.
Color Vowel Basics is an online course. To get the most out of your experience, you will need:
We use Zoom software for our live meetings and Canvas as our course management system.
We are dedicated to all aspects of teaching and learning online, and that includes providing plenty of support before, during, and after any course you take with us. When you take Color Vowel courses, you automatically become part of our dedicated community of teachers and support staff. We will do our best to help you with whatever question arises.
Yes! The technique practicum involves demonstrating the techniques taught in the Level 1 workshop and do not require a current classroom setting. This course is appropriate for those who are currently teaching as well as anyone who is preparing to teach — or new to teaching altogether!
ELTS is committed to offering game changing professional development that is both affordable for teachers and sustainable for our business. For individuals, we offer a “register with a friend” discount, so start talking to your friends and colleagues! For schools and organizations, we offer volume pricing for instructional teams of 6 or more. Visit our Schools page to learn about our FAST, and Complete, and customized training options.
When you take the Color Vowel Basics, you become part of our world-wide community of Color Vowel Teachers who teach English with our brain-based, learner-friendly strategies. Our Level 2 workshops support ongoing professional development and discovery, and provide our teachers with personalized coaching and support. Learn more about the Color Vowel Journey.
“Upon discovering Color Vowel, I was never able to “unhear” it. In a world in which we depend so much on technology for answers, it is liberating to have a mental tool which instantly aids in mastering the sounds of English.”
“The Color Vowel Chart provides an anchor that lets students produce and make sense of sounds even when they're not able to fully, consciously explain a certain pronunciation. It's a thread that I've carried through my teaching career since 2008 and it just works.”
“The Color Vowel Chart makes it easy to remember the essential English vowels and helps us notice how to shape our mouth and jaw to produce the sounds of English.”
“Color Vowel lifts the lid on the secrets of spoken English and gives learners clear, understandable, and effective tools for rapid improvement. It's simple, powerful, and approachable way to tackle some of the hardest aspects of teaching English.”
“For me, the concept of long and short vowels never really worked. The Color Vowel Approach gives me a set of accurate, non-technical vocabulary with which I can use to communicate with my students in a way that accesses multiple parts of their brain in order for them to perceive sounds that are not in their native language.”
“The Color Vowel Chart is deeper than it looks. The more phonological awareness a teacher has, the more that teacher can help learners develop their own phonological awareness.”
“The Color Vowel Approach enables me to fine-tune individual and group instruction because I have a way of assessing their language needs better. It helps learners to access vocabulary with greater precision. ”
“By providing us with a vocabulary to talk with students about sounds in English, the Color Vowel Chart opens the doors to examining all of the most important aspects of English, including stress, intonation, spelling, irregular verbs, and lexical chunks.”
“The Color Vowel Approach is a ground-breaking way to learn vocabulary by focusing on stressed vowel sounds. Understanding that is key to developing an accessible, working vocabulary.”
“I love the Color Vowel Approach because it is compelling, accessible, and based in the science of learning according to how we process language in the brain. It gives learners a tangible system to hear the sounds of English through tools that help them overcome interference with their L1 in a fun and engaging way.”
“The beauty of Color Vowel is that it makes conversations about prosody and pronunciation accessible to learners of any age and any level.”
“I find the way the elements of your training sessions weave themselves together genuinely elegant. It isn't just a "bag of tricks to deal with different problems" … there’s a sense of integrality and completeness in what you have developed overall.”
“I can't thank you enough for an amazing experience at Color Vowel Basics. The Color Vowel Approach provides the strategy and structure I was looking for on behalf of my students. The work you have done is truly remarkable. It's true that simplicity lies at the far side of complexity.”
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