IATEFL TEACHER TRAINING

AND EDUCATION SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

TTEd SIG

• The IATEFL TTEd SIG aims to serve and represent the interests of teacher trainers and educators all over the world in order to enhance their professional development. It achieves these aims by organising various events, establishing contact with teacher trainers and educators in their own contexts and internationally, producing newsletters and providing the Gillian Porter Ladousse IATEFL Conference Scholarship Fund.

• The TTEd SIG committee welcomes news, suggestions and offers to organise events with IATEFL’s help and support.

TTEd SIG Committee• TTEd SIG Coordinator

• tutunisster@gmail.com

• Prof. Birsen Tütünis received her PhD from University of Sussex. She has been working in the field of ELT as an English instructor, as a lecturer and as an administrator for years. She has written articles and books on different issues related to our field. Her recent interest lies on Teacher/ Learner Training on Learner Autonomy.

• She has been the coordinator of Teacher Training and Education Committee (TTEd SIG) of IATEFL since 2011. She has been the key note speaker and given presentations at different international ELT Conferences. She is the Honorary Member of AzETA in Azerbaijan.

 

Dr. Kalyan Chattopadhyay: Web Master Dr. Kalyan Chattopadhyay is an Assistant Professor (Senior) at BankimSardar College, University of Calcutta, India. His research interests include New Literacies studies, Web-based learning design, Mobile-based learning and interaction design, and Workplace Communication. He is currently Vice-president of IndiaCALL (an IATEFL Associate), EC member of AsiaCALL and IALLT Council Member. He has got BA Honours in English from the University of Calcutta, an MA in English language and Literature, an MA TESOL & ICT from the University of Leeds(UK), and a PhD. He trains teachers both at the private and statesectors in India. He also works as an Academic Advisor to WiziQ, and as a training consultant to OUP, India.

Gabriel Diaz Maggioli: Newsletter Editor Gabriel Diaz Maggioli is an ESL/EFL teacher who applies the lessons learned in the classroom to his roles as teacher educator, educational administrator as well as to his research and writing. He has 30 years' experience as a language teacher of which 23 he has spent as a teacher educator and professional development specialist. Gabriel is a frequent presenter at international conferences and was a member of the Board of Directors for TESOL, a global association, for four years. He is delighted to be working with IATEFL colleagues and honored to have been appointed Newsletter Editor for the TTEdSIG. He hopes to be able to strengthen the TTEd community by bringing a multitude of voices to the SIG newsletter.

Burcu Tezcan-Ünal: Events, Publicity & Membership OfficerBurcu Tezcan-Unal has been teaching EFL for over two decades and training teachers for about fifteen years. I hold a COTE – RSA from Cambridge University, Aston MSc in TESOL and training certificates from BC and Pilgrims. Burcu has been involved in TE& TD more seriously since 2008 when she participated in the workshops of EAQUALS in Lisbon. In the institution she is currently working for, she co-founded BILGI TD Centre in 2009. One thing she is really proud of is that there is now an established system of teacher training and development for both novice and more experienced members of the staff. Burcu has a blog which is mainly on Professional Development in ELT. www.btezcan.edublogs.org She is working on increasing the popularity of TTEd SIG and the number of (young) members. She set up the facebook group and page for TTEd SIG as well as a Blog for the TTEd SIG events www.ttedsigevents.edublogs.org

Gospel Ikpeme: Discussion List Moderator

Tted sIg COMMITTTEEE MEMBERS

TTEd ACTIVITIESThe Newsletter•Our Newsletter serves the professionals who value the periodic receipt of articles, worldwide news about professional development opportunities and the links to resources.•All the articles in our Newsletters voice a concern with the state of affairs in our profession while offering ideas, caveats and options which may help us “ move on and move up”.

PCEpre- conference events

• Every year, we organize a Pre-Conference Event (PCE) where we have distinguished speakers who give plenary talks and do workshops. Participants take home plenty of new ideas to be implemented to their contexts.

PCE 2009

PCE 2011

Morion Williams Briony Beaven

Russel Stannard

TTEd SIG PCE Event Program

10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks Prof. Dr. Birsen Tütüniş (SIG Coordinator)

10:15-11:15 Plenary 1 Prof. Dr. Peter Medgyes (Cambridge ESOL)

11:15-11:45 COFFEE BREAK11:45-13:00 Workshop

Prof. Dr. Peter Medgyes 13:00-14:00 LUNCH14:00-15:00 Plenary 2 Tim Philips

(The British Council)15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK 15:30-16:45 Participants’ Voices 16:45-17:15 Feedback

March 19, 2012, GLASGOW

“TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION WORLDWIDE: SHARING EXPERIENCES”

■Training the trainers, ■Distance training ■Mentoring, ■Internationalization of TTEd, ■Teacher development for senior teachers, ■Teacher Training and Education data basis, ■Teacher cognition and training, ■Assessment on Teacher Training

PCE 2012- Plenary 1 Why won’t the little beasts

behave? Prof. Peter

Medgyes

After nearly twenty years, I returned to the classroom to teach a group of 16-year-olds. I held out for two years before the kids had made mincemeat of me. Why was I unable to cope? Are the kids any worse today than their predecessors were? Anyway, what is classroom discipline? How do you judge the „train → disobey → punish → obey” paradigm? If without discipline there is no effective teaching, why do ELT authors still give this problem short shrift? And why don’t teachers discuss it either? By the way, to which category of teacher do you belong: that of the strict and scary, the firm but fun, or the soft and shaky teacher? How does the reflective teacher view classroom discipline and the problems relating to it?

PCE 2012- plenary 2English Teachers Finding Their Feet

Tim Philips

This talk will look at issues relating to the development of teachers of English in different contexts at the start of their careers. It will present research and thinking related to questions including what factors influence their attitudes to teaching and their development, how early training influences their development, and what support best helps them develop in these early years.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

TTEd Events in other Countries

TEACHING, TESTING, TRAINING - IT´S ALL ABOUT LEARNINGNovember 04-06 2011 Beijing/ CHINA

Nafle Conference-CHINA, November 2011

• The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) contributed to the 2011 NAFLE conference (04-06 November 2011) by offering a series of exciting and informative workshops and lectures by international and local trainers. This unique programme was a collaboration between three IATEFL Special Interest Groups:Young Learners & Teenagers, Testing and Assessment, Teacher Training & Education, together withthe Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University.

• The speakers on this programme were all experienced teachers, teacher trainers and authors. This international collaborative programme allowed delegates to get a taste of the latest developments in the areas of Young Learners and Teenagers, Testing and Assessment and Teacher Training & Education

• The TTEd SIG Cooridnator Prof Birsen Tutiniş had a workshop session called Learner training for EFL skills in collaboration with Dr Chen ZehangYoung Learners & Teenagers, Testing and Assessment, Teacher Training & Education, together withthe Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University.

• The TTEd SIG Coordinator Prof Birsen Tutüniş had a workshop session called Learner training for EFL skills in collaboration with Dr Chen Zehang.

• Burcu Tezcan-Unal, who recently became an IATEFL TTEd Committee member, also gave a session entitled “Moving beyond your teaching career” in NAFLE. She introduced the participants a framework that they use the institution she works for referring to the main components of the teaching profession.

Nafle Conference-CHINA, November 2011

TTEd SYMPOSIUM in ISTANBUL25.02.2012

• Istanbul Aydın University hosted the event at its Bahçelievler Campus. The event was sponsored by the British Council Istanbul , IATEFL and Istanbul Aydın University. It was an international symposium with participants from Ukraine, Azerbeijan, Bulgaria and Iran. The plenary speakers were Blaine Ray, Evelyn Rothstein, Richard Smith and Tim Philips. The Theme was “ Researching Teachers: Exploring In- Service training and after”

TTEd SYMPOSIUM in ISTANBUL25.02.2012

HYDERABAD, INDIA Assessing and Evaluating English Language

Teacher Education March 3-5/ 2012• English Language Teachers Association in India organized this

conference sponsored by the British Council and IATEFL. TTEd, TEA SIGs were involved.

• TTEd webmaster, Kalyan Chattopadyay represented TTEd with a talk.• The British Council, English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U),

English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELTAI), Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Special Interest Group (TEA SIG) and the Teacher Training and Education Special Interest Group (TTEd SIG), part of the International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) have joined hands once again to host the 2nd International Conference for English Language Teacher Educators.

• The theme this year is Assessment and Evaluation of English Language Teacher Education, Teaching and Learning. This theme is designed to focus on the importance of setting, achieving and maintaining standards which lead to better quality and more accountability, not just at the practitioner level, but also at the programme level.

TTEd SIG -the Gillian Porter Ladousse- Scholarship WINNER

The winner of TTEd SIG -the Gillian Porter Ladousse- Scholarship is Shyam Bahadur Pandey from Nepal. His affiliation is Brilliant Multiple Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal. Congratulations Shyam  

“It's my GREAT pleasure to be the winner of such a prestigious scholarship. Thanks to everybody for your contribution which is an inspiring moment in my professional career. Looking forward to attend the Glasgow conference.”SHYAM PANDEY

Thursday, March 22, 2012

TTEd SIg and SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

* TTEd SIG is now on Facebook.Please join our group http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/IATEFL.TTEdSIG/

Like our page http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/IATEFL-Teacher-Training-and-Education-SIG/261427223868104  Invite colleagues in your Facebook accounts to join us.Open discussions, share ideas, resources and events.

* TTEd SIG has a blog for the events.Follow the events you missed by going to our blog: www.ttedsigevents.edublogs.org