TEACHER
DEVELOPMENT WORKHOP
FOR
NOVICE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
“FUNDAMENTALS
OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY”
July 8 - 12, 2012
Call
for Participation
AIMS AND
OBJECTIVES
This five-day workshop will introduce novice English
language teachers to methodologies and approaches that may help them as they
begin their careers.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This interactive training is for novice teachers only, teachers in their
first or second year of teaching or in their last year of university.
The trainer and the participants will look at what makes effective
language instruction from both the teacher’s and the student’s perspective. The
program will help explore the building blocks of task-based learning,
lesson-planning, teaching reading and writing strategies. Effective error
correction and classroom management will be addressed throughout the workshop
as it applies to each of the topics covered.
Participants will devise a plan of how they intend to apply their
learning to their next teaching context and will be asked to participate in round
table discussions and reflect on studied material.
INVITED TRAINERS
JENNIFER HERRIN holds an M.A., Education-TESOL from the University of
New Mexico and a B.B.A., Marketing from the University of Texas. Ms. Herrin has
taught English and conducted teacher development in Eastern Europe, Latin
America, Asia, Australia, and the US. She served as an English Teaching Fellow
in Panama (1996-97), a Fulbright Lecturer in Nicaragua (2001-02), the Senior
English Language Fellow in Ukraine (2006-07),and the Senior English Language
Fellow in Argentina (2011). She has also conducted projects in the Republic of
Georgia, Argentina, and Ukraine through U.S. Department of State Specialist
Programs. In the U.S., she was an ESL instructor at Central New Mexico
Community College for 7 years. This fall she will be teaching at the
English Language Institute at the University of California at San Diego. She is
especially interested in exploring task-based techniques and interactive
methodologies for learning language.
CAROL HADDAWAY is serving as the Senior English Language Fellow (ELF) in Kyiv, Ukraine
for the academic year 2011-12 with the English Teaching Resource Center at
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Prior to this assignment she served as a Senior ELF in
Damascus, Syria where she conducted teacher training for the English Language Supervisors,
Ministry of Education and at the American Language Center. Carol has designed
and taught TESOL Methodology courses face to face and online in the E-Teacher Scholarship Program at UMBC
and was a full time Instructional Specialist at Anne Arundel Community College.
She also designed and taught ESP for Medical and Science Professionals at the
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She
has a Master’s degree in Instructional System Design/ESOL Bilingual from UMBC and
a MSc degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences from JHU.
OTHER DETAILS Dates: July 8-12, 2012
Time: 9:30 -16:30
Number of participants: 30
Venue:
INTERNEWS Ukraine
Vul.
Ryzhs’ka 15, Kyiv
Language
of instruction: English
If you are
selected, you will be provided with 5 days of training. The program is open for novice teachers from
Ukraine. Transportation costs and accommodation expenses in
Kyiv will not be reimbursed. More details will be provided in your acceptance
letter. The workshop ends at 15:15 on July 12.
SELECTION
CRITERIA
Successful applicants will be teachers in
their first or second year of teaching or in their last year of pedagogical
university and will have the following skills and competencies:
·
a good command
of English
·
ability and
willingness to work hard as part of a team with other participants
·
active
listening and communicative skills
Participants will be accepted on a first come first
serve basis. Priority will be given to teachers working at public schools and
universities.
HOW TO APPLY
Only successful
applicants will be informed about the results of selection via e-mail by July 6, 2012
APPLICATION DEADLINE – 5 July 2012
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