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[fluffytwo]

I see you made another reply but removed it by the time I was about to in turn reply, Bograt. IIRC your reply consisted of little more than a line or two, something like 'On page 18 you just told people to go read some book didn't you? Have you ever given any proper training to e.g. pre-service trainees?'. Here is my reply to that:

I didn't just tell people to go and read some book, and only mentioned it (Richards' The Context of Language Teaching, winner of the MLA's 1985 Kenneth W. Mildenberger prize: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/Biennial-Prize-and-Award-Winners/Kenneth-W.-Mildenberger-Prize-Winners , hardly just some book!) to show I wasn't alone in my "tilting at windmills" (I'd had reservations about the treatment of Present Perfect, and reading Richards merely confirmed that my intuitions were correct in that and other regards besides).

The basic thrust of most of my posts is Improve the contextualization, especially when in terms of supposed or presumable conversation and spoken interaction, and that is precisely what I was attempting to show on page 18, and in the aforementioned 'Perfect lesson' thread. Stuff like that would surely be easier for a pre-service trainee to appreciate and springboard off than stilted arm's-length presentationese and CCQs etc, wouldn't it?

If I were a CELTA trainer I'd doubtless be having to toe a line myself, and would thus not by my if not your definition be doing as much to help trainees as I could. Institutions tend to be or become limiting and doctrinaire, or hadn't you heard? (If not, perhaps take a look at the recent thread on Learning Styles a la La la Cambridge that Nomad posted).

I view my contributions on these and similar forums then as a form of teacher training (I'd prefer terms like helping or assisting or mentoring though). But to answer your question, I have at least written supplementary activity guides for colleagues saddled with poor textbooks, and helped observe lessons, that sort of thing. Nothing that grand, but then, you can't really beat what the language should be telling you, IMHO.

Again, what do you do or have you done, Bograt, except pooh-pooh any independent thinking and less cookie-cutter approaches by way of making clearly false statements?