Tag Archives: ELT
Performative Teaching: Facilitation Skills Masterclass
15 hours of workshopsDate: Saturday 29th July and Sunday 30th July 2023 REGISTER HERE The weekend masterclass develops facilitation skills and is aimed at anyone who is involved in training, development and educating others. Facilitation skills are vital in any event … Continue reading
Teacher Education is on the wrong track
As an ELT teacher and teacher educator, I have seen firsthand the limitations of traditional teacher training practice. Too often, teacher training programs focus on developing teaching competencies, such as procedures, routines, and lesson planning, at the expense of activities … Continue reading
Posted in Teacher Development
Tagged ELT, Teacher Development, Teacher education, Teacher Training, Tom Godfrey
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Developing Facilitation Skills
Join presenter, Tom Godfrey, on Saturday 1 April at 15.00 UK time as he demonstrates how to develop drama facilitation skills in ELT. In the webinar, Tom will suggest that teaching needs to be conceived more as a performative art requiring … Continue reading
Posted in Teacher Development
Tagged Community Forums, drama, ELT, Facilitation skills, Performative skills
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Community Forums:Towards a Participatory Methodology for Teacher Professional Development.
Community Forums provide participant-led, solution-oriented, multiple voiced opportunities for reflection and dialogue on critical incidents teachers’ face. Continue reading
Teaching As a Performative Art
Post pandemic it is opportune to consider the importance of the embodied physical presence of learners and teacher in the learning encounter as this raises vital issues as to the nature of teaching and learning. Sir Ken Robinson (2006) in … Continue reading
Performative Teaching: An Embodied Approach to Teacher Development
How can Applied Theatre inform Teacher Development? Continue reading
Our mission is to increase awareness of excellent teaching skills.
We are making a documentary film series showing the real experiences of following a teacher training course Continue reading
Posted in Documentary film
Tagged documentary, ELT, ELT-Essence, film, Teacher, Teacher Training, Tom Godfrey, training
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Creative thinking and drama.
How can we use creative thinking and drama in the language classroom? I am going to describe 6 drama activities that encourage creative thinking and utilise the learners’ imagination. Drama typically takes place in face to face settings as it … Continue reading
ITI 30th anniversary celebrations and awards re-uniting friends and colleagues
The two-day celebration aims to bring together participants on ITI training courses, tutors, TP students and members of Speech Bubbles to a ‘get together’ to share experiences through a series of presentations, workshops, discussions, party games and many other fun … Continue reading
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Tagged Anniversary, Celebration, CELTA, DELTA, ELT, ELT Conference, ELT Forum, ITI, ITI Awards, ITI Istanbul, Sharing ideas, Tom Godfrey
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Teaching Artistry 