Harrogate online

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Harrogate online.

 

Every year professionals from all over the world get together to participate in IATEFL conference. This year it was in Harrogate in small town in the north of England.

If you didn’t have the opportunity to participate in the conference, you may watch a lot of sessions online http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2010

 

The first plenary was led by Tessa Woodward, an author of many books on professional teacher-development , writer of teaching materials and more online.

The Professional Life Cycles of Teachers

As we come together in Harrogate for this IATEFL conference, we will be attending talks and workshops, panel discussions and social events over several days. We will find ourselves in rooms with teachers of all kinds…. young ones and not so young ones, those from different

countries and cultures and with different mother tongues.

There may be times when we wonder why one person is getting so aerated about a particular topic or why another person seems so optimistic or pessimistic about the whole learning and teaching endeavour. This plenary may possibly help us to make sense of this for we will look at some research that has been done into the life cycles of teachers. What are the concerns of a teacher who has just started in the job?

How do these differ from those of someone who has been in the field for a few years? Or for many, many years? You will be offered a possible framework, based on number of years in the job, collated from several thinkers in the field of life cycle research. Together we will ask questions from the TESOL teacher’s point of view and finally will ponder the implications of the framework for ourselves, our colleagues and indeed for IATEFL Harrogate conference goers!

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Harrogate online.

 

Every year professionals from all over the world get together to participate in IATEFL conference. This year it was in Harrogate in small town in the north of England.

If you didn’t have the opportunity to participate in the conference, you may watch a lot of sessions online http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2010

 

Спасибо за интересный источник. С удовольствием почитала мнения об использовании родного языка на уроках иностранного, а также про scaffolding.