Letter from a reader- Getting started with teacher training
Dear Alex,
I’m an English teacher from Brazil.
I’ve been teaching for 9 years now and I’ll start Teacher Training.
Do you have any advice?
Regards,
Valeria Garcia
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I almost certainly do, especially as I was full time teacher training last week for the first time in 6 years, but am having problems putting it into words (and getting thoughts of “Argghhh, we could have done that last week!” out of my head and looking at the bigger picture), so can anyone else help Valeria while I’ve got my thinking cap on?
Oh, go on!
Oh, go on go on go on!
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January 12th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Sat down to write something about this and then had a terrible feeling of deja vu, and indeed I have written about it before:
http://edition.tefl.net/articles/criteria-for-tefl-workshop/
http://edition.tefl.net/articles/tefl-workshops-complaints/
http://edition.tefl.net/articles/how-to-write-tefl-articles/ (despite the address, also aimed at peope writing workshops)
Must be loads more to write about that, but Monday doesn’t find me inspired and waking up to find that I’d spilt yuzu tea all over my futon made me even less so…
Anyone else???
January 12th, 2009 at 3:36 am
I am still a little confused about exactly what context Valeria will be doing the training in. Is it in-service teachers in state schools? Pre-service teachers on a CELTA type course? It makes a huge difference about what to include in the advice and who will feel qualified to pitch in.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:49 am
Good point. Valeria?
January 12th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Hi there,
I’m ‘creating’ a course the way I wanted to have been trained when I started teaching.
the course aims private teachers or teachers from language schools, not state schools.
I’m a psychologyst too, and I’m trying to mix some of my psychological knowledge into it, like how motivation works, etc.
I bought a book, “teaching by principles”, it is kind of interesting.
Does anyone have anything against it? (lol)
I also act on stage, so I think I’ll put some body exercises we use in theater.
I’m just afraid of trying to do too much and in the end the results are not that good.
Hope to hear from you soon!
January 12th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Be careful who you mock, lower Case. You betray yourself with the quirks you learned at your lop-eared garten, now you resemble the rabbit lurking under the stone in the primordial swamp you cannot see the eagle circling. Well whoddya know, casey boy, he’s circling and he sees a thousand miles wiv one lil blink of his eye-eye. This is as we have foreshadowed, is it not? That the organ grinder should be enlightened, achieve the highest levels of society, flushed with snivelling resentment of success. But an eagle can catch an amoeba.
January 12th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Would you care to explain who I have mocked in this post and how, Paul? And then perhaps you could explain how the rest of your comment would translate into English