TESOL France, in association with The Language Network, is pleased to present:
The June Day on Professional Development
Saturday June 20th 9:00am to 7:30pm
Télécom ParisTech,
49 rue Vergniaud,
75013 Paris.
Plenary Speaker: Jeremy Harmer
This June Day will include seminars on:
- Professional development and the decisions of today's teachers
- Observing fellow teachers
- Going independent, portages and the new auto-entrepreneur
- Web 2.0 for teaching professionals
- Teacher management and training
- The Certificate in International Business English Training (Cert IBET)
- The state of ELT in France
Program
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Registration (Telecom ParisTech lobby) |
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| 9:30 - 10:50 |
Going Independent, Portages and the New Auto-entrepreneur Bethany Cagnol (Vice-president, TESOL France) and Claire Oldmeadow (Director, The Language Network) Room: Estaunie |
Bridging the Business English Trainers' Skills Gap Mark Rendell (English UK) Room: E200 |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Watching Teachers Watch Themselves Plenary with Jeremy Harmer (Pearson Longman) Room Estaunie |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch There are plenty of restaurants and sandwich shops near the venue |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Activities for Teacher Development in 5 Circles Duncan Foord (Oxford Tefl) Room: Estaunie |
Modern Technology in Teaching Business English and Free Software Tools to Enhance your Teaching Jarosław Kawałek and Laurence Whiteside Room E200 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee and visiting Novagora's book stand | |
| 16:00 - 17:20 |
The French Language Training Market in the Context of Globalization Andrew Wickham (Linguaid) Room: Estaunie |
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| 17:30 - 18:45 |
Round Table Discussion: Staying Afloat: The challenges English language teachers face today and tomorrow Room: Estaunie |
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| 19:00 |
Refreshments and visiting Novagora's book stand Room E200 |
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Panel Discussion
Andrew Wickham, a consultant at Linguaid, will also lead an informative round table discussion on Staying Afloat: The challenges English language teachers face today and tomorrow.The panel members include:
- Jeremy Harmer,
- John Hession,
- Bethany Cagnol,
- The Language Network,
- Teacher training representatives.
Plenary Session
Watching Teachers Watch Themselves
by Jeremy Harmer (Pearson Longman)This session focuses on issues of teacher development before reporting on (and showing extracts) of a teacher filming project where teachers were invited to view clips of their own teaching and were then asked the 'why' question to tease out their own reflections and beliefs about how they taught - and how they view teaching in general. Originally designed as material for trainers and trainees, this procedure points the way to an effective way of personal growth and teacher self-awareness - but is it for everyone?
Jeremy Harmer has written The Practice of English Language Teaching as well as How to Teach English (now in its second edition), a book which has provided the template for the How to series of methodology books published by Pearson. Jeremy has travelled to various countries around the world talking about language teaching. One of his main delights is working and networking with teachers on these visits and learning that despite the many differences between our specific situations, teachers all over the world have basically the same aspirations, share the same concerns, wrestle with the same sets of problems and rejoice in the same kind of success.
Speaker Abstracts and Bios
The French Language Training Market in the Context of Globalization
by Andrew Wickham (Linguaid)The rise of distance learning is having an increasing impact on the traditional language training industry in France, which could be on the eve of a major transformation. Today, face to face training with teachers based in France accounts for 80 to 90% of language training, but if the current trends persist, will distance learning by telephone or visioconference, using "offshore" trainers working in countries where salary costs are much lower, replace face to face training in the coming years ? What are the comparative advantages and disadvantages of distance learning over face to face training ? How are traditional training organizations coping ? Is the market going to concentrate ? What do face to face trainers need to do to stay competitive ? With prices stagnating since 2000 and salaries of qualified trainers falling, what incentives are there for providing the high level, personalised professional training that clients say they want today ? Will the trends currently developing in France spread throughout Europe in the coming years ?
These are some of the questions that the Linguaid market study set out to find answers to in early 2008. One year later, Andrew Wickham, the writer of the market study report, which was published in March 2009, will present the study and discuss some of the findings that directly concern trainers. This will be followed by an open discussion with participants.Andrew Wickham began as a language trainer then moved to training management, set up and ran a training company, and finally moved to project management of industrial blended learning systems. He currently teaches cross-cultural communication and is carrying out a comprehensive market survey of professional language training in France. His specialties include: Designing, building and running large-scale integrated training systems, managing language and communication training companies, cross-cultural training for business communication, and communication coaching.
Going Independent, Portages and the New Auto-entrepreneur
by Bethany Cagnol (Vice-president, TESOL France ) and Claire Oldmeadow (Director, The Language Network)
Together we will explore three self-employment choices teachers have today. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a travailleur independent? There's also the portage salarial, a company which provides the legal framework through which the consultant is able to invoice his or her services as an independent. And as of January 2009, we can also be an Auto-entrepreneur with a click of a mouse! Bethany and Claire will share their experience with us in what promises to be a very informative and lively discussion.Bethany Cagnol has an MA in Teaching Second and Foreign Languages and founded her own freelance teaching business, International Customer, and joined the TESOL France Executive Committee in 2006. Thanks to the contacts she's made through the association she has spoken at IATEFL, IATEFL BESIG, IATEFL Poland, and the American University of Paris Conferences. She recently began writing for the publisher Cornelsen. Her professional interests include Business English, Testing and Assessment, Teacher Development, English for Specific Purposes, English as an International Language, and Materials Design.
Claire Oldmeadow has over 20 years of teaching and management experience. She is currently the director of The Language Network and is especially committed to helping independent language trainers by offering them missions and by giving them the opportunity to meet and to network with other independent trainers.
Activities for Teacher Development in 5 Circles
by Duncan Foord (Oxford Tefl)
You can develop on your own, with your students, with your colleagues, with your school and with your profession. We will be doing and reviewing 5 teacher development activities, one from each of these 5 circles. The activities are easy to set up and don't require a lot of time to carry out; they just add a developmental twist to your regular teaching. The activities are taken from my new book The Developing Teacher (Delta Publishing, 2009).Duncan Foord has been in ELT since 1984. He started his ELT life as a language assistant in a secondary school in Lyon, France. He has also worked in London, Oviedo, Prague and Barcelona. He's taught English to all sorts of people (and a bit of German once), trained teachers on Trinity CertTESOL and Dip TESOL courses and worked as a Director of Studies and school manager. Foord is co-founder of OxfordTEFL, a teacher training and language training school with centres in Prague and Barcelona so he has had quite a bit of involvement with both the academic and business sides of ELT. He also works for Trinity College London, moderating CertTESOL courses. He has completed Cert, Dip and MEdTESOL qualifications. The Developing Teacher is Foord's second book. The first is the Language Teacher's Survival Handbook, co-authored with Lindsay Clandfield and published by Its Magazines. Foord has lived in Barcelona for the last 18 years.
Web 2.0 for Teachers
by Jarosław Kawałek (President, IATEFL Poland) and Laurence Whiteside (TESOL France)
Modern Technology in Teaching Business English
New technologies have not only influenced our daily life but they have also added a new dimension to many businesses. Even very small companies can now afford to wage online advertising campaigns reaching millions of prospective customers, organise online meetings, built good company image using social networks or forecast trends and sales. In this session we will discuss how numerous free online tools (e.g. online meetings, project management, brainstorming, real-time collaboration software) can be effectively used with our students to provide a realistic environment for their language training.Jarosław Kawałek is the President of International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language IATEFL Poland, Deputy Director of Rzeszow University Language Centre and a certified project manager. He has been running training courses and workshops covering numerous aspects of IT usage in teaching foreign languages. Amongst others, he has co-operated with British Council (ICT4ELT Project), Jagiellonian University in Krakow, PASE and a selection of publishing houses. Nowadays he is involved in the development of an e-learning course at the University of Information Technology and Management. He is also the leader of a large, regional, government funded IT-Methodology Training Programme for English teachers.
Free Software Tools to Enhance your Teaching
One of the best kept secrets of technology is that you don't have to pay large amounts of money for the software you need to get the job done. There are plenty of free programs out there that allow you to create web pages, make and edit sound recordings and give presentations. And you don't need to a degree in Computer Science to use them. There are also lots of free online resources which you can exploit in class, even if your classroom doesn't have an internet connection. In my talk, I'll be showing you some of this software, where to find it, how to use it, and where you can find more information.Laurence Whiteside started out teaching English in Spain in 1993, and has stayed in the profession continuously since then. He worked in the private and public sectors in England and ran a modern languages department in a further education college in Cambridge for four years. Laurence was also active in his union both in his workplace and in the East Anglia region. He moved to Paris in 2005 to join his partner (now wife) and take up a lecteur post, and he joined the TESOL France ExCom as Membership Secretary in 2006. He passed the CAPES exams in 2007, and currently teaches Business English in the UFR d'Economie et Gestion of the University of Cergy-Pontoise.
Bridging the Business English Trainers’ Skills Gap
by Mark Rendell (English UK)
What does it mean to be a business English trainer and what makes it so different from being a general English teacher? Mark leads this interactive session by examining the skills needed to successfully navigate the high-powered setting of the business English board-room and what it means to be a successful trainer of the professional Englishes.The session will also explore how the new English UK/Trinity College London Certificate in International Business English Training (Cert IBET) qualification can help you to make the transition from general English teacher to business English trainer and make you feel more confident, knowledgeable and ready to succeed!
Mark Rendell fell into TEFL in 1993 in Poland. He liked it so much, that eight years later, just as he was finally getting the hang of it, he was awarded a tie, promoted out of the classroom where he would do less damage and packed off to Saudi Arabia to help open a group of language schools in the Kingdom. After a short spell in the desert, Mark moved to Shanghai, China and was awarded a pair of scissors which he used with aplomb to cut the ribbon to mark the opening of over 40 franchised language centres in almost every region of the country all in the space of 3 years.
Mark returned to the UK in 2005 and now wears a suit and tie and sits behind a big desk. He works for English UK (www.englishuk.com), the UK’s national association for quality English Language Teaching providers and is responsible for the association’s professional services and quality assurance schemes. He was responsible for co-developing the new Certificate for International Business English Training (Cert IBET) qualification, a partnership between English UK and Trinity College London and also launched a popular annual Business English Trainers’ Conference in association with the special interest group, Business English UK.
