Continuos professional development in ELT

Continuous professional development in ELT

Mr.Galyaletdinov

EFL teacher of “Boarding school #1”

You are pushed to improve your professional skills

To develop as a teacher, you could:

Adapt

• authentic texts

• a worksheet or activity for another level, age, language point or kind of class
• the tasks for a reading or listening

Become

• a mentor
• an examiner
• a senior teacher
• a teacher trainer

Change

• a grammar explanation you always use

ages of students you teach

• set up of the classroom (positions of chairs etc)
• supplementary materials you use (e.g. try different photocopiable books or different websites)
• textbook
• the order of the stages of the lesson (e.g. changing from PPP to Test Teach Test)
• warmers

Get feedback from

• students
• colleagues
• administration
• an observer from elsewhere
• people online (e.g. by posting your lesson plan on your blog or a forum)

Download

• a free e-book
• popular songs lyrics, worksheets

Join

• a local teachers’ association

Observe

• a colleague
• your boss
• a trainee teacher
• teachers elsewhere

Learn

• grammar explanations
• grammar terminology
• a language
• word roots and where idioms come from (etymology)
• cultural differences (e.g. body language around the world)
• typical student errors and reasons for them
• about other varieties of English
• more about your own culture

Use

• EFL videos
• authentic videos
• online EFL games (e.g. on Learn English Kids)
• different supplementary materials
• storybooks
• songs
• new games
• new lesson structures, e.g. mixing up stages
• new materials
• flashcards

Read

• websites
• blogs and blog comments
• online forums
• books of practical ideas
• articles
• book reviews
• magazines
• journals
• e books

Watch

• a videoed workshop or lecture
• a video on general education
• a colleague’s lesson
• a video of your own lesson
• webinars
• examples of storytelling (e.g. on YouTube)
• examples of speaking exams
• movies about teaching

Volunteer to

• be observed (e.g. by new or trainee teachers)
• be a mentor
• organise the teaching resources
• organise the student materials
• teach someone else’s lesson while they observe you

Write

• a teaching diary
• a list of your beliefs about teaching and learning

your answers to discussion questions in the teaching book you are reading

• a list of things to try in class
• a brainstormed list of ways to teach or practice something
• a list of things that worked well
• a reflection on why something didn’t go so well

Take part in

• Webinars

Teach

• another subject through English

Try

• an experimental lesson

Polish up

• a textbook or supplementary activity (e.g. by retyping it up as your own worksheet)

Check out

• the latest ELT publishers’ catalogues

Collaborate on

• a collection of activities that all teachers could use, e.g. a supplementary folder for a particular level
• a website for students
• brainstorming ideas for a particular level, age, textbook, or language point
• some research

Go to

• workshops
• language and teaching courses
• a book shop with teaching materials

Take

• the TKT
• one or more modules of the DELTA
• an online course
• a short course (e.g. at Pilgrims)

Share

• worksheets (e.g. on ESLprintables, Scribd.com)
• teaching ideas (e.g. on a noticeboard in your teachers’ room)
• favourite worksheets (e.g. in level files or a sharing file in your teachers’ room)
• warmers
• your favourite links (e.g. on Reddit)

Research

• student opinions
• what teachers really do while teaching, planning, marking or choosing jobs
• the effects of something on learning
• typical errors
• the development of one student’s language over time

Events

• NATE Conference in Kazan.
• Conferences in Leninogorsk, Mamadysh, Kazan.
• Scholars’ cup (Adjudicator, students’ participation)
• «Профи-край» международная олимпиада учителей в Перми, Москве, Н.Новгороде, Чебоксарах.
• Вебинары издательства «Титул», Вербицкой, Skyteach, Macmillan и т.д.

Events

• Кандидаты в эксперты ГИА по английскому языку.
• Конкурс педагогического мастерства «Учитель года»
• Гранты the USA (“Global education”)
• “ Skyteach” олимпиада для учителей
• Республиканский форум учителей иностранных языков в Казани

Thanks for your attention and an eye contact!