2. TTED SIG
• The IATEFL TTEd SIG aims to serve and
represent the interests of teacher trainers
and educators all over the world in order to
enhance their professional development. It
achieves these aims by organising various
events, establishing contact with teacher
trainers and educators in their own contexts
and internationally, producing newsletters
and providing the Gillian Porter Ladousse
IATEFL Conference Scholarship Fund.
• The TTEd SIG committee welcomes news,
suggestions and offers to organise events
with IATEFL’s help and support.
3. TTED SIG COmmITTEE
• TTEd SIG Coordinator
• tutunisster@gmail.com
• Prof. Birsen Tütünis received her PhD from University of
Sussex. She has been working in the field of ELT as an English
instructor, as a lecturer and as an administrator for years. She
has written articles and books on different issues related to our
field. Her recent interest lies on Teacher/ Learner Training on
Learner Autonomy.
• She has been the coordinator of Teacher Training and Education
Committee (TTEd SIG) of IATEFL since 2011. She has been the
key note speaker and given presentations at different
international ELT Conferences. She is the Honorary Member of
AzETA in Azerbaijan.
4. TTED SIG COmmITTTEEE mEmBERS
Dr. Kalyan Chattopadhyay: Web Master
Dr. Kalyan Chattopadhyay is an Assistant Professor (Senior) at BankimSardar College, University of
Calcutta, India. His research interests include New Literacies studies, Web-based learning design, Mobile-based
learning and interaction design, and Workplace Communication. He is currently Vice-president of IndiaCALL
(an IATEFL Associate), EC member of AsiaCALL and IALLT Council Member. He has got BA Honours in English
from the University of Calcutta, an MA in English language and Literature, an MA TESOL & ICT from the
University of Leeds(UK), and a PhD. He trains teachers both at the private and statesectors in India. He also
works as an Academic Advisor to WiziQ, and as a training consultant to OUP, India.
Gabriel Diaz Maggioli: Newsletter Editor
Gabriel Diaz Maggioli is an ESL/EFL teacher who applies the lessons learned in the classroom to his roles as
teacher educator, educational administrator as well as to his research and writing. He has 30 years' experience
as a language teacher of which 23 he has spent as a teacher educator and professional development specialist.
Gabriel is a frequent presenter at international conferences and was a member of the Board of Directors for
TESOL, a global association, for four years. He is delighted to be working with IATEFL colleagues and honored
to have been appointed Newsletter Editor for the TTEdSIG. He hopes to be able to strengthen the TTEd
community by bringing a multitude of voices to the SIG newsletter.
Burcu Tezcan-Ünal: Events, Publicity & Membership Officer
Burcu Tezcan-Unal has been teaching EFL for over two decades and training teachers for about fifteen years. I
hold a COTE – RSA from Cambridge University, Aston MSc in TESOL and training certificates from BC and
Pilgrims. Burcu has been involved in TE& TD more seriously since 2008 when she participated in the
workshops of EAQUALS in Lisbon. In the institution she is currently working for, she co-founded BILGI TD
Centre in 2009. One thing she is really proud of is that there is now an established system of teacher training
and development for both novice and more experienced members of the staff. Burcu has a blog which is mainly
on Professional Development in ELT. www.btezcan.edublogs.org She is working on increasing the popularity of
TTEd SIG and the number of (young) members. She set up the facebook group and page for TTEd SIG as well
as a Blog for the TTEd SIG events www.ttedsigevents.edublogs.org
Gospel Ikpeme: Discussion List Moderator
5. TTED ACTIVITIES
The Newsletter
•Our Newsletter serves the
professionals who value the
periodic receipt of articles,
worldwide news about
professional development
opportunities and the links to
resources.
•All the articles in our
Newsletters voice a concern
with the state of affairs in our
profession while offering ideas,
caveats and options which may
help us “ move on and move
up”.
6. PCE
PRE- CONFERENCE EVENTS
• Every year, we organize a Pre-
Conference Event (PCE) where we
have distinguished speakers who give
plenary talks and do workshops.
Participants take home plenty of new
ideas to be implemented to their
contexts.
9. TTEd SIG PCE Event
Program
10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks
Prof. Dr. Birsen Tütüniş
(SIG Coordinator)
mARCH 19, 2012, GLASGOW 10:15-11:15 Plenary 1
Prof. Dr. Peter Medgyes
“TEACHER TRAINING AND (Cambridge ESOL)
EDUCATION WORLDWIDE: SHARING 11:15-11:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:45-13:00 Workshop
EXPERIENCES” Prof. Dr. Peter Medgyes
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
■Training the trainers, 14:00-15:00 Plenary 2 Tim Philips
■Distance training (The British Council)
■Mentoring, 15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30-16:45 Participants’ Voices
■Internationalization of TTEd, 16:45-17:15 Feedback
■Teacher development for senior teachers,
■Teacher Training and Education data basis,
■Teacher cognition and training,
■Assessment on Teacher Training
10. PCE 2012- PLENARy 1
Why won’t the little beasts behave?
Prof. Peter Medgyes
After nearly twenty years, I returned to the
classroom to teach a group of 16-year-olds. I
held out for two years before the kids had
made mincemeat of me. Why was I unable
to cope? Are the kids any worse today than
their predecessors were? Anyway, what is
classroom discipline? How do you judge the
„train → disobey → punish → obey”
paradigm? If without discipline there is no
effective teaching, why do ELT authors still
give this problem short shrift? And why
don’t teachers discuss it either? By the way,
to which category of teacher do you belong:
that of the strict and scary, the firm but fun,
or the soft and shaky teacher? How does the
reflective teacher view classroom discipline
and the problems relating to it?
11. PCE 2012- PLENARy 2
English Teachers
Finding Their Feet
Tim Philips
This talk will look at issues
relating to the development of
teachers of English in different
contexts at the start of their
careers. It will present research
and thinking related to questions
including what factors influence
their attitudes to teaching and
their development, how early
training influences their
development, and what support
best helps them develop in these
early years.
13. TTED EVENTS IN OTHER
COUNTRIES
TEACHING, TESTING, TRAINING - IT´S ALL ABOUT LEARNING
November 04-06 2011 Beijing/ CHINA
14. NAFLE CONFERENCE-CHINA, NOVEmBER 2011
• The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
(IATEFL) contributed to the 2011 NAFLE conference (04-06 November 2011) by
offering a series of exciting and informative workshops and lectures by
international and local trainers. This unique programme was a collaboration
between three IATEFL Special Interest Groups:Young Learners & Teenagers,
Testing and Assessment, Teacher Training & Education, together withthe
Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University.
• The speakers on this programme were all experienced teachers, teacher trainers
and authors. This international collaborative programme allowed delegates to get
a taste of the latest developments in the areas of Young Learners and Teenagers,
Testing and Assessment and Teacher Training & Education
• The TTEd SIG Cooridnator Prof Birsen Tutiniş had a workshop session called
Learner training for EFL skills in collaboration with Dr Chen ZehangYoung
Learners & Teenagers, Testing and Assessment, Teacher Training & Education,
together withthe Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University.
• The TTEd SIG Coordinator Prof Birsen Tutüniş had a workshop session called
Learner training for EFL skills in collaboration with Dr Chen Zehang.
• Burcu Tezcan-Unal, who recently became an IATEFL TTEd Committee member,
also gave a session entitled “Moving beyond your teaching career” in NAFLE.
She introduced the participants a framework that they use the institution she
works for referring to the main components of the teaching profession.
16. TTED SymPOSIUm IN ISTANBUL
25.02.2012
• Istanbul Aydın University
hosted the event at its
Bahçelievler Campus. The
event was sponsored by the
British Council Istanbul ,
IATEFL and Istanbul Aydın
University. It was an
international symposium
with participants from
Ukraine, Azerbeijan,
Bulgaria and Iran. The
plenary speakers were
Blaine Ray, Evelyn
Rothstein, Richard Smith
and Tim Philips. The Theme
was “ Researching
Teachers: Exploring In-
Service training and after”
18. HyDERABAD, INDIA
ASSESSING AND EVALUATING ENGLISH
LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION mARCH 3-5/
•
2012
English Language Teachers Association in India organized this
conference sponsored by the British Council and IATEFL. TTEd, TEA
SIGs were involved.
• TTEd webmaster, Kalyan Chattopadyay represented TTEd with a talk.
• The British Council, English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U),
English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELTAI), Testing,
Evaluation and Assessment Special Interest Group (TEA SIG) and the
Teacher Training and Education Special Interest Group (TTEd SIG), part
of the International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign
Language (IATEFL) have joined hands once again to host the 2nd
International Conference for English Language Teacher Educators.
• The theme this year is Assessment and Evaluation of English
Language Teacher Education, Teaching and Learning. This theme is
designed to focus on the importance of setting, achieving and
maintaining standards which lead to better quality and more
accountability, not just at the practitioner level, but also at the
programme level.
19. TTED SIG -THE GILLIAN PORTER
LADOUSSE- SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
The winner of TTEd SIG -the
Gillian Porter Ladousse-
Scholarship is Shyam
Bahadur Pandey from Nepal.
His affiliation is Brilliant
Multiple Campus,
Kathmandu, Nepal. “It's my GREAT pleasure to be
Congratulations Shyam the winner of such a prestigious
scholarship. Thanks to
everybody for your contribution
which is an inspiring moment in
my professional career. Looking
forward to attend the Glasgow
conference.”
SHYAM PANDEY
21. TTED SIG AND SOCIAL mEDIA
PRESENCE
* TTEd SIG is now on Facebook.
Please join our group
http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/IATEFL.TTEdSIG/
Like our page
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/IATEFL-Teacher-Training-and-Educ
Invite colleagues in your Facebook accounts to join us.
Open discussions, share ideas, resources and events.
* TTEd SIG has a blog for the events.
Follow the events you missed by going to our blog:
www.ttedsigevents.edublogs.org
