Invitation...
In 2011, the Teacher Trainer journal will be 25 years old and we want to celebrate that quarter of a century! So, I would like to invite you to join us at our:
25th Anniversary
Conference
When? 17-19th August 2011.
Where? University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, England.
Why? We want to bring together readers, subscribers and contributors to the journal with new and experienced teacher trainers plus those soon to enter the field so that we can all share perspectives and practical ideas on teacher education.
Who? Speakers so far include Penny Ur, Mario Rinvolucri, Briony Beaven, Seth Lindstromberg and Tessa Woodward.
What’s on the menu? Ideas we are thinking of so far: Plenary sessions on major issues in pre- and in-service teacher training, participant presentations and practical workshops with the chance of publication as a follow up, ‘An article comes alive!’ where past contributors talk about why they wrote their articles, case study time, writers’ workshop, live interview for the ‘People who train people’ column. Plus evening social events.
If you would like to book a place as a presenter or attendee, please contact:
Lizzie@pilgrims.co.uk.
You can download the conference flyer underneath by clicking on it.
Summer/July 2010 - Vol 24 No 2
now available!
Welcome to Volume 24, Number 2 the 'Summer' 2010 issue of the Teacher Trainer journal. Summer from the point of view of the
First there is an article to help those who train teachers of young learners (see page 2). A very interesting article on self reflection rather than blaming others follows on page 5. Trainers are the ones to get mentored on page 7. Some interesting student teacher collaboration
The following established series are back: Interview, News in our Field, Observation and Feedback, Book Review, Article Watch and Publications Received.
Authors this time include... Teresa Thiel, Sezgi Yalin, Marilyn Lewis, Tarun Kumari Bamon, Charles Ochieng Ong’ondo, Graham Hall. Alan Waters,
With all these goodies packed into the current issue I hope you will feel like subscribing which you can also do online!
Happy reading! Keep sending in your articles, comments and adverts!
Oh and why not come to our 2011 conference too?
Tessa Woodward
Editor
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Opening plenary IATEFL conference
by Tessa Woodward
Tessa Woodward, the editor of The Teacher Trainer journal, gave the opening plenary at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate, UK in April, 2010. The topic was "The professional life cycles of teachers". Below you can watch Part 1 of her plenary.
Part 2 (approx. 45 minutes) of Tessa's Opening Plenary is available on the IATEFL web site. Please follow this link to continue viewing.
Tessa was also the October 2009 guest writer for the BBC Teaching English web site. And the subject was all about being a teacher trainer! You can still see her articles on the 'Guest Writer' section:
www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/am-i-ready-be-a-teacher-trainer
www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/how-be-a-trainer
www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/tessa-woodward.
Our first year of the digital
Teacher Trainer journal!
We hope you are enjoying reading the journal in the flip page, digital format which has now been available for a year. Thank you for your patience while we have been setting this up. There have been a few teething problems but they are sorted out now we think and hope! We would also like to let you know that back issues are now available in this format. Please contact us if you would like to subscribe to any of the past 4 years of TTJ digitally.
