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coledavis
Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1838
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:32 am Post subject: Training somebody in new methods |
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We have a new teacher who has good language skills but who has been trained to use grammar translation and the learning by heart of whole texts. She says she's willing to learn new methods to fit in with what we do.
Can somebody recommend either a book or an online training course (not for qualifying, people!) which will give her a clue about communicative work? What I want to avoid is one of these books which provides uncritical descriptions of a whole lot of woo-woo; I do not want her gaining an enthusiasm for suggestopedia, weird rods and multiple brains. What I want her to acquire is a basic idea of what communicative teaching aims to do and some coverage of how to do it. |
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Shroob
Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 1339
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Training somebody in new methods |
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coledavis wrote: |
We have a new teacher who has good language skills but who has been trained to use grammar translation and the learning by heart of whole texts. She says she's willing to learn new methods to fit in with what we do.
Can somebody recommend either a book or an online training course (not for qualifying, people!) which will give her a clue about communicative work? What I want to avoid is one of these books which provides uncritical descriptions of a whole lot of woo-woo; I do not want her gaining an enthusiasm for suggestopedia, weird rods and multiple brains. What I want her to acquire is a basic idea of what communicative teaching aims to do and some coverage of how to do it. |
How about 'Learning Teaching' by Jim Scrivener? That seemed to be the basis of the CELTA course that was based on communicative learning (though other methods were discussed). |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:48 am Post subject: |
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I've worked with teachers such as this, and to be honest, their monitoring other teachers with a debrief at the end to discuss what was done and how he/she could apply some of it in a classroom, followed by observation and genuine discussion seems to work best.
In the end, most teachers tend to revert to default mode at every opportunity; said default mode tends to be whatever teaching/learning system we ourselves experienced in our early years of education. It's difficult to make real change.
Likely best to start with Shroob's book suggestion (I agree it's a fairly useful book) followed by a monitoring-and-observing plan over a longer period of time. |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:13 pm Post subject: Re: Training somebody in new methods |
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coledavis wrote: |
What I want to avoid is one of these books which provides uncritical descriptions of a whole lot of woo-woo |
So, nothing on model trains, then...? |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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