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Harder than it looksTraining Teachers
Peter Lahiff, Course Director, Cert. TESOL at ESD @lahiffp
Lough Bray: A hike to the upper lake with my wife
Ooo It’s quite boggy, slippery and uneven.Where’s the path gone?There yet?I didn’t think it would be an expedition!
What do you need to be a good teacher?
Subject knowledgeTeaching techniquesPlanning & organisationA consistent approachTo like working with peopleThe ability to listenComfort in silence& Self-awareness
Awareness of what?
My (educational) values = Autonomy, Prescriptivism, AFL
My learning => teaching preferences
My presence and its impact on others
My own ticks and bad habits
Transmission Received?
What’s stopping us/them?
The template teacher
Personal passions
Putting on a show
Perfectionism v Inertia
The elastic band
Not so transferable
You can’t make them!
Ways of getting around the roadblock
Input (teachable moments)
Feedback before
Goldilocks pressure
Modelling for the monkies
Practice what you preach
or change the sermon?
Taking the horse to water
It is hard going, but it is worth the hike
Harder than it looksThanks - Questions?
Peter Lahiff, Course Director, Cert. TESOL at TES Dublin @lahiffp