2. What motivates you to be here?
To be up-to-date to recent developments
To improve my teaching practice
To get acquainted with other participants
To share experiences, problems, & successes
You are seeking for a change and improvement.
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3. Development does not just happen with time,
it happens with awareness.
An awareness of a need to change
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT Awareness, reflection and sharing
The Weekly Column, By Graciela Miller de Arechaga
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4. Task 1:
Let’s say you are a parent of a 7-year-old boy.
What are important to you when choosing an
English teacher for your son?
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5. Task 1:
a good command of English
a sound academic background
good interpersonal relationship
good communication skills
motivating students to learn
having a love for the art of teaching
well-prepared, creative, and using various teaching
methods
strict
others :____________________________________
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6. Three core teacher characteristics
that help to create an effective learning
environment
Respect: Being positive and non judgmental in
regards to another person
Empathy: Being able to see things from another
person’s point of view
Authenticity: Being yourself without egoistic
barriers or hiding behind a job title
Carl Roger, an American psychologist
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8. Worries about:
Students:
some negative attitudes
some difficulties that students have in their
learning process
Ourselves:
lack of confidence
language proficiency
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9. When was the last time
you presented a New idea
for the First time?
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10. frustrated novice
teacher
routine expert
adaptive expert
Schwartz, Bransford, Sears, Efficiency and Innovation in Transfer, p29
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11. Task 3:
in five years?
Am I competitive enough?
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12. Task 4:
How do you improve your own practice?
Attend Discuss
seminars with
other
teachers
Teacher’s
development
Read some ideas
Observe others’ & try them out
lessons
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13. The Experiential Learning Cycle
Do
Prepare Recall
Conclude Reflect
Jim Scrivener, Learning Teaching, Chapter 1 Classrooms at work p20
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14. English Language Teaching Qualifications
Teachers who
a. have the required level of English proficiency
and
b. have a recognised language teaching
qualification
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17. Teaching Awards
TKT (Teaching Knowledge
Test)
CELTA (Certificate in English
Language Teaching to Adults)
DELTA (Diploma in English
Language Teaching to Adults)
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19. What is TKT?
It stands for the Teaching
Knowledge
Test
It is developed by Cambridge ESOL, offered
international.
It offers free-standing modules.
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20. Aims
to increase teachers’ confidence and enhance
job prospects
to focus on the core teaching knowledge
needed by teachers of primary, secondary or
adult learners, anywhere in the world
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21. TKT content outline
TKT consists of three modules
Task types: matching, sequencing, 3-option
multiple choice and odd one out
For each module, 80 questions in 80 mins
Each questions carries 1 mark
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22. Module 1 — Language and background to
language learning and teaching:
3 parts
describing language and language skills
background to language learning
background to language teaching
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23. Module 2 — Planning lessons and use of
resources for language teaching:
2 parts
planning and preparing a lesson or sequence of
lessons
selection and use of resources and materials
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24. Module 3 — Managing the teaching and
learning process:
2 parts
teachers' and learners' language in the
classroom
classroom management
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25. How are results reported?
Band A candidate at this level demonstrates
1 Limited knowledge of TKT content areas
2 Basic, but systematic knowledge of TKT content
areas
3 Breadth and depth of knowledge of TKT content
areas
4 Extensive knowledge of TKT content areas
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28. The Recommended Books
•Macmillan Books for Teachers
Title Author Module 1 Module 2 Module 3
Learning Teaching Jim Scrivener Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ
An A-Z of ELT Scott Thornbury Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ
Teaching Practice Roger Gower Ѵ Ѵ
Handbook Diane Phillips
Steven Walters
Children Learning Jayne Moon Ѵ Ѵ
English
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