Fifty English teachers came together last week at Indaruuwa Beach Resort in Bentota, Sri Lanka for the first in a series of Hornby Schools in ISL this year. Adrian Tennant from the UK and Rachel Bowden from Nepal have planned the one-week modules using the set secondary text books as their base material. Participants engaged in small-scale Action Research projects and learned to look critically but constructively at the grammar practice sections of the course books and then adapt these to ensure that learners would be actively engaged in the learning process.
The group at Bentota included 16 staff from Regional English Support Centres (RESCs) all round the island sponsored by Project English and the Sri Lanka United Kingdom Society (SLUKS) among others. These trainers will attend an additional master training course in September and will then cascade the Hornby School to around 2000 state school teachers.
For the first time this year, we have established an online learning community to support and further develop the learning on the Hornby School and share experiences from the classroom while implementing new ideas from Hornby and the action research projects.
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