Hi everyone!
Hi everyone!
I'm currently teaching on a pre-sessional EAP course in London, where I'm based. The last few years I've done a lot of freelance work – teaching, training, web-based development and materials writing.
Some of the projects I've worked on: the British Council ESOL Nexus website (lesson plans and cpd resources), Learning Circles for BBC Learning English (a video-based course designed for people who can't make it to traditional ESOL classes), and the National Geographic Learning Keynote series (I did spreads on presentation skills for the workbooks for the B2-C2 levels). I've done bits and pieces apart from that. I've trained teachers at York Associates in the UK.
I don't actually have anything 100% ready to go in terms of publishing, so I'll probably just use this as a practice run and rework some of my blog posts into a collection. In the long run, I'd like to put something together on tools for development for teachers and students (things like SWOT analyses and other visual tools for organising your thoughts, but with an ELT slant).
One of my other hats is as a volunteer for IATEFL Teacher Development SIG, for whom I act as webmaster. Something I could eventually produce for this would be a 'How To' Guide for the management of the website to hand over to my eventual successor.
I'm currently teaching on a pre-sessional EAP course in London, where I'm based. The last few years I've done a lot of freelance work – teaching, training, web-based development and materials writing.
Some of the projects I've worked on: the British Council ESOL Nexus website (lesson plans and cpd resources), Learning Circles for BBC Learning English (a video-based course designed for people who can't make it to traditional ESOL classes), and the National Geographic Learning Keynote series (I did spreads on presentation skills for the workbooks for the B2-C2 levels). I've done bits and pieces apart from that. I've trained teachers at York Associates in the UK.
I don't actually have anything 100% ready to go in terms of publishing, so I'll probably just use this as a practice run and rework some of my blog posts into a collection. In the long run, I'd like to put something together on tools for development for teachers and students (things like SWOT analyses and other visual tools for organising your thoughts, but with an ELT slant).
One of my other hats is as a volunteer for IATEFL Teacher Development SIG, for whom I act as webmaster. Something I could eventually produce for this would be a 'How To' Guide for the management of the website to hand over to my eventual successor.
Dear Busy Michael,
ReplyDeleteWe are very happy to have you on the course and all of your ideas and experience will certainly be of great value to the whole group. See you soon!
Good idea--learn how on a chapter of something, and then you'll know what to do for something longer. The process is the same, after all! A "How to" guide would be a great thing to hand over, and is probably something that's already written in your head anyway...
ReplyDeleteDear Michael, nice meeting you! You've done very interesting things!
ReplyDeleteI also believe that NLP and Coaching tools are necessary for effective teaching, I've been using them for some time now with very positive results. Enjoy the course!
Dorothy Zemach that's exactly what I was thinking, Dorothy. Very good to know that it will still be worthwhile to sort of learn the ropes here before tackling something bigger :)
ReplyDeleteHi Mike! We'll be classmates! :)
ReplyDeleteMargarita Kosior hi Margarita! Didn't know you were on this course! Good to see you here =)
ReplyDelete