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Course Overview
Color Vowel® Level 1 Practicum Course Syllabus
Important Links for the January 2025 Cohort
Documents to Download and Print
How to Join Your Cohort Group in VoiceThread
How to Record Your Video Responses
How to Complete the Technique Practicum Tasks
Download the Video Assignment Submission Document
Practicum Task #1: Introduce Yourself
Week 1 Instructions
Week 1 Live Session - Exit Ticket / Asynchronous Attendance Reflection
Practicum Task #2: Introduce the Color Vowel® Chart
Practicum Task #3: Model 'Color it out!' in Blue Canoe
Week 2 Instructions
Week 2 Live Session - Exit Ticket / Asynchronous Attendance Reflection
Practicum Task #4: Word-based Color Vowel Warm-Up
Practicum Task #5: Color Vowel Walkabout
Practicum Task #6: What Color is your life?
Week 3 Instructions
Week 3 Live Session - Exit Ticket / Asynchronous Attendance Reflection
Practicum Task #7: Flooding Demonstration
Practicum Task #8: Color Vowel Warm-up, Redux
Practicum Task #9: Model Blue Canoe's Sentence-based Lessons
Week 4 Instructions
Week 4 Live Session - Exit Ticket / Asynchronous Attendance Reflection
Practicum Task #10: Tracing R-controlled vowels
Practicum Task #11: Word Mark-Up Practice
Practicum Task #12: Color Vowel Self-Assessment
Course Evaluation
What's Next?

What Teachers are Saying

“I am completely in awe of this teaching tool and the techniques that have been presented so far. I plan to go all the way through Level 3 in the training. I thought the r-controlled vowel explanations were brilliant.”

Nancy Reynolds, ESL Instructor, TX

“I took this course last autumn and it was the best PD I've had in the field over the last 20 years! I was able to implement these ideas and materials the next day in class. When does that ever happen?! I recommend this course to any English language teacher - it's really that good!”

Christine Fiorite EdD, ESL Instructor, English Language Institute, University Of Chicago

“The Color Vowel® Approach has transformed my classroom by giving students a fun, engaging, easy to remember way to improve their pronunciation, both in the classroom and their everyday life. I use it every day. I can't imagine teaching without it!”

Ruth Voetmann, Intensive ESL Instructor and Department Chair, Edmonds College, WA

“I feel good about what this course has to offer. The discussions of moving vowels and R-controlled vowels are invaluable. The Color Vowel® Chart itself is a stroke of genius, or SEVERAL strokes of genius all in one organized template.”

Christine Kassover, Coordinator and Instructor, Intensive English Institute, Florida Atlantic University

Haven't taken Color Vowel® Basics yet?

Registration in the Level 1 Practicum requires previous or current enrollment in Color Vowel® Basics.

If you haven't bought the Basics yet, sign up for the Level 1 Certificate Bundle and get both the Basics and the Practicum and complete them together.