F is for Flipped training

Thanks to Alex for sharing his thoughts on Flipped training courses. A flipped classroom reverses the traditional model of a classroom, focusing time in class on student understanding rather than on lecture. Developments in technology have made it easier and easier to create engaging online content that can be used in place of traditional classroom input. 

T is for Teach not Test

Cathy Taylor shared her thoughts on the importance of training teachers to teach reading and listening skills not just practice/test them.  After watching the clip, Sinead and Rachael discussed the problems teachers can encounter if their initial teacher training courses don't focus on skills development in enough detail. If you'd like to see an example of how you can incorporate some useful listening skills development work into your class using decoding activities, click here

O is for Observations

Yvert sent us a clip in advance of his poster presentation at this Future of ELT 2019. He talked about the importance of collaborative observations and the challenges in balancing development of the a teacher and quality control for the organisation they work in. This led to some really interesting examples of innovative ways to facilitate peer observation from Sinead, including one example with trainees observing a peer teach a lesson via a recordings, allowing their trainer to make comments in real time to the group, rather than waiting till after the class had finished. 

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