Most recent webinar: Understanding teacher development needs – Gerhard Erasmus
All past and upcoming webinars
Our most recent webinar
1st June 2019.
This webinar has now taken place. The recording can be viewed here
Understanding teacher development needs – A critical look at teaching qualifications – Gerhard Erasmus
A large percentage of teachers (50 to 70%) leave the teaching profession within the first 5 years of teaching (Phillips, 1989). They report anxiety and stress as well as feeling underprepared for the realities of teaching as the main reasons for leaving.
This webinar will look at how to better support novice and experienced teachers by looking at what can realistically be expected of a teacher after having completed an initial qualification like a CELTA or Trinity Cert TESOL. We will also look at how to support and develop teachers who have done further qualifications such as an MA, DELTA or Trinity Dip TESOL by looking at what is realistically covered by a course and how areas of weakness could potentially be stressful for teachers.
The effect of being responsible for developing teachers while no longer actually teaching will also be explored and ways of staying on top of new SLA research and teaching methodologies will be central to this part of the webinar.
Bio:
Gerhard has been teaching in Asia for almost 20 years and currently works at the British Council in Taipei, Taiwan. Over the last decade, he has worked as Teacher, Teacher Trainer, Assessor, Academic Manager, and Director of Studies. He is actively involved in teacher training and tutors on various teacher training courses.
Upcoming webinars:
Watch this space! Our next webinar will take place in October 2019
Title | Presenter | When? |
|---|---|---|
| To be announced | Evrim Üstünlüoğlu | October 2019 |
Past webinars:
The following list is of all the webinars that LAMSIG has previously held. The recordings of all these webinars are available to be viewed in our members’ area
(NOTE: members’ area is password protected. Members will have received the password in the various editions of the e-newsletter to members. If you do not have the password, please get in touch – using the contact form and quoting your IATEFL member number)
| TITLE | PRESENTER | WHEN? |
| How to do ELT Management Research | George Pickering | June 2014 |
| Coaching and Mentoring in ELT | Loraine Kennedy | October 2014 |
| Appraisals | Jenny Johnson | February 2015 |
| Peer observation – how can we make it work? | Andy Hockley | June 2015 |
| Revitalising Coasting Teachers | Josh Round | November 2015 |
| Lost in Translation | Fiona Thomas | February 2016 |
| The New Manager | Liam Brown | June 2016 |
| Encouraging teachers to take charge of their own CPD | Fiona Dunlop | October 2016 |
| Making the transition from teaching and learning to leading and managing in ELT | Andy Curtis | February 2017 |
| The elusive art of giving feedback | Ania Kolbusewska | May 2017 |
| Leadership Qualities for Academic Management | Marina Gonzalez | Nov 2017 |
| Institutional Research for Greater School Effectiveness | Deniz Kurtoğlu Eken | February 2018 |
| Using performance indicators to assess institutional effectiveness in ELT |
Vinicius Nobre |
May 2018 |
| Lesson Observations: A flawed tool or an invaluable aid? | Maria-Araxi Sachpazian | October 2018 |
| What is your strategy? | Duncan Foord | February 2019 |
We also held a webinar with the Fairlist
‘Preparing for your first keynote talk or plenary.’
It was especially aimed at women who are thinking about dipping their toes in these waters for the first time.
The speakers were Susan Barduhn and Simon Greenall.
Susan is a Professor at SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont and a Past President and currentInternational Ambassador for IATEFL. She has been honored to give plenaries in 17 countries.
Simon has been a textbook writer for more years than he cares to admit. Giving plenaries has been an essential but often challenging requirement of the day job.
The recording of the webinar can be viewed here: http://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/p6ybav71815/
IATEFL is also running a number of free webinars for members.
Details can be found at the following link
http://www.iatefl.org/web-events/webinars
