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Adults English Courses, British Council Prague, Czech Republic © Dan Materna
Trainer Development Course February 2010
British Council conducted an international 5-day intensive residential Trainer Development course, February 1 – 5, 2010.
Tutors:
UK teacher trainers and materials developers from British Council:
Maggie Milne –Advisor Learning and Teaching, British Council, Manchester.
Rob Lewis –Teacher Website Consultant, British Council, Lisbon.
Course outcomes:
- identify skills that are transferable from teaching to training
- identify and describe learning styles
- relate learning styles to activity typs and tasks
- define motivation and relate to training contexts
- relate teacher levels of experience to issues and challenges in delivering training
- analyse problems and provide solutions to enable effective presentation of input and activities
- provide constructive feedback to trainees
- evaluate training materials for trainees of different experiential levels
- establish a checklist of evaluation criteria
- express valid, measurable learning outcomes
- deliver a teacher training activity to peers.
During the course the trainers used examples from a variety of teacher training courses available at the British Council such as TKT Essentials course, learning technologies course and other teacher development workshops.
Criteria for participants
- a competent command of English (minimum B2)
- a degree in ELT, education or similar
- at least 5 years of formal teaching experience
- formal or informal teacher training experience
- initiative and enthusiasm to develop professionally
- experience of a project in ELT which has brought professional benefit to a group of teachers
- evidence of the ability to disseminate the knowledge and skills gained during the course to other teachers.
