Harder than it looksTraining Teachers

Peter Lahiff, Course Director, Cert. TESOL at ESD @lahiffp

Lough Bray: A hike to the upper lake with my wife

Ooo It’s quite boggy, slippery and uneven.Where’s the path gone?There yet?I didn’t think it would be an expedition!

What do you need to be a good teacher?

Subject knowledgeTeaching techniquesPlanning & organisationA consistent approachTo like working with peopleThe ability to listenComfort in silence& Self-awareness

Awareness of what?

My (educational) values = Autonomy, Prescriptivism, AFL

My learning => teaching preferences

My presence and its impact on others

My own ticks and bad habits

Transmission Received?

What’s stopping us/them?

The template teacher

Personal passions

Putting on a show

Perfectionism v Inertia

The elastic band

Not so transferable

You can’t make them!

Ways of getting around the roadblock

Input (teachable moments)

Feedback before

Goldilocks pressure

Modelling for the monkies

Practice what you preach

or change the sermon?

Taking the horse to water

It is hard going, but it is worth the hike

Harder than it looksThanks - Questions?

Peter Lahiff, Course Director, Cert. TESOL at TES Dublin @lahiffp