Powerpoint from the session

1. How to…
…move into language school
management
Andy Hockley, IATEFL Liverpool, 2013

2. Agenda
 Why might you want to move into management?
 What routes are available?
 What training and/or support is out there?
 Things to think about

3. Why management?
 Why did you come here today?
 What are the reasons why people might consider
moving from teacher to manager?

4. Possible answers
 Provides a career path
 Change of focus
 Personal/professional development
 Pushed
 New organisational working practices
 Accreditation
Any we missed?

5. Routes
 Where do you want to go? What do you want to
achieve?
 Where are you now? What skills do you already
have?

6. Skills
 What are the skills of a manager?
(Or, perhaps, what skills should a manager
have?)

7. Routes into management
 Rising through the ranks (teacher – coordinator -
senior teacher – ADOS – DOS – and beyond…)
 Changing jobs (changing LTO)
 Deputising
 Taking on responsibilities
 Projects (management writ small)
 Certification
 Summer school

8. Training and support - courses
ELT specific management courses
 Eg IDLTM, DELTM (blended)
 MA in Educational management
 Some online courses
Project Management courses
 ELT specific such as “Fundamentals of Project
Management”
 General (many)
Non-ELT specific
 Eg MBA, other general management courses
Workshops
 Eg IATEFL LAMSIG events and one days workshops

9. In-house
 Mentoring
 Shadowing
 Coaching
 Deputising
 Volunteering
 Taking on other responsibilities
 Projects (team member, manager)

10. Literature etc
Books
 From Teacher to Manager (CUP 2008)
 Management in ELT (CUP 1991)
 IATEFL LAM SIG Newsletter

11. To sum up
Talk to managers
Learn from your experience being managed (good
and bad)
Where do you want to go?
Where are you now?
How can you get from A – B?
And What, How, Why, Oneself…

12. KSAA
Knowledge – Knowing About
Skills – Knowing How
Attitude – Knowing Why
Awareness – Knowing Oneself
Who are you as a manager?