TESOL France is pleased to present:
The Spring Day on Professional Development
Saturday June 18th 2011, 9:00am to 7:00pm
Télécom ParisTech,
49 rue Vergniaud,
75013 Paris.
TESOL France's The Spring Day on Professional Development Videos are now available!
Watch the Plenary Session by Ken Wilson, as well as three other speakers offering invaluable advice on our professional development and the decisions of today's teachers. We apologize for the sometimes choppy recording quality. These videos do offer plenty of incredible insight.
Venue
Télécom ParisTech, 49 rue Vergniaud 75013 Paris, FranceClick here to see a map of the neighborhood and get directions to the venue.
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This conference includes seminars on:
- Professional development and the decisions of today's teachers
- Motivating young learners
- Motivating students with role plays
- Marketing yourself
- Teacher CVs
- Continuing education options for teachers
- Boosting your salary
- The state of ELT in France
Program
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Registration and Coffee (outside room: Emeraude) |
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| 9:15 - 10:30 |
The state of play of the French language Training Market Andrew Wickham Room: Emeraude |
Step by Step Selling and Marketing for Dummies (and Smarties) for Auto-entrepreneurs and Travailleurs Independents Curtis Bartosik Room: Rubis |
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| 10:45 - 12:00 |
Don't Just Work... Work on your EFL Career! Carol Bausor Room: Emeraude |
Thinking Critically About Teaching and Research Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes Room: Rubis |
Getting your CV Right! Erin Douglas Room: Saphir |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch There are several restaurants and sandwich shops near the venue |
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| 13:30 - 14:45 |
Plenary: Ten ways to get your students to DO something Ken Wilson Room Emeraude |
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| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Coffee Break |
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| 15:15 - 16:30 |
10 Ways to Earn More Money as a Language Trainer Claire Oldmeadow Room: Emeraude |
Step by Step Selling and Marketing for Dummies (and Smarties) for Auto-entrepreneurs and Travailleurs Independents Curtis Bartosik Room Rubis |
Letting Go of the Classroom - from Role Play to Improvisation Damian Corcoran Room: Saphir |
| 16:45 - 18:00 |
The state of play of the French language Training Market Andrew Whickham Room: Emeraude |
Motivating Young Learners Dede Wilson Room: Rubis |
Don't Just Work...Work on your EFL Career! Carol Bausor Room Saphir |
| 18:15 - 19:00 |
Q&A Session with the Speakers Room: Emeraude |
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| 19:00 |
Reception Outside Emeraude |
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Plenary Speaker: Ken Wilson
Ten ways to get your students to DO something
English language materials are bursting with good content and ideas for skills exploitation, but to make them work and get the best out of them, you need to engage your students' interest. This isn't always easy, especially if they are at the end of a long, hard week or "aren't in the mood". At times like this, you need to challenge them, make them curious and encourage them to be imaginative. Sometimes you simply have to find out what they're good at or even give them responsibility for what happens in the class. In this talk, I will suggest ten ways that you can uncork their interest and their talents. Maybe you can show them talents they never knew they had - drawing, miming etc - or even specialist knowledge about insects or outer space. It's all there, waiting to be exploited. Remember, in a class of 30 students, there are 32 sources of information - you, the book and the students themselves.Ken Wilson is an author and trainer. He has written about 30 ELT titles, including a dozen main courses. He also writes supplementary material and in 2008, OUP published Drama and Improvisation, a collection of about sixty of his drama activities for teachers. His first ELT publication was a collection of songs called Mister Monday, which was released when he was 23. Since then, he has written and recorded more than 150 ELT songs, published as albums or as integral parts of course material. He has also written more than a hundred ELT radio and television programs, including fifty radio scripts for the BBC Follow Me series, thirty Look Ahead TV scripts and a series of plays called Drama First. For many years, Ken was artistic director of the English Teaching Theatre, a company which toured the world performing stage-shows for learners of English. The ETT made more than 250 tours to 55 countries, including several visits to France. Ken lives in London with his wife Dede and their two cats, and works in a shed at the end of his garden.
Speaker Abstracts and Bios
Step by Step Selling and Marketing for Dummies (and Smarties) for Auto-entrepreneurs and Travailleurs Independents
by Curtis Bartosik
This seminar will help you market and sell your services whether you are an Auto-entrepreneur, Travailleur Liberal, or running an SARL or EURL.
You have taken the courageous step of becoming independent, but many of you are now asking, "I know how to teach, but I don't know how to sell". Don't worry, it is not very hard. First, form your goals and dreams. Second, identify your interests and strengths. Third, define your product and USP (Unique Selling Point). Fourth, identify your target market. (Normally, first you find the market and then the product... but in our case, YOU are the product) Then, the strategy for selling will naturally come together. Marketing defines where you want to go and selling gets you there, and they reinforce each other. Selling is not cold calling and going door to door. It is a process of acknowledging your strengths and gifts and leveraging your USP so that people will want to work with you. And once you get rolling, you will not have to call to find clients, they will call you.
Curtis Bartosik has been teaching English in France since 2002. He became independent in 2004 and founded an SARL in 2006. He employs a team of teachers, continues to teach, and has 14 clients. He has had to teach himself how to sell language training services in France and will share what he has learned with TESOL. Other past jobs -- High Tech Investing and Business Development Consultant in Silicon Valley, construction site manager in Japan for Warner Brothers and the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, Outdoor Education and Leadership instructor, US Army officer. He runs marathons and enjoys hiking and skiing in the Alps.
Don't Just Work... Work on your EFL Career!
by Carol Bausor
We work in the field of learning and instruction, but how coherent are we when it comes to our own professional development? Do we have a career plan, or do we rather allow ourselves to drift along from one (academic) year to the next. Same classes, different students, and ... most probably same -- or lower -- salary. In this workshop, Carol will ask some tough questions, and give her own blueprint to help ambitious trainers to break out of the mould and to pilot their EFL career towards greater rewards.
Carol Bausor is the CEO of the training and consulting company, ILTC. She is British, and has lived in Lyon for...longer than she lived in Leicester. She is anything but boring, and her workshop will certainly get down and dirty: it will be impossible to claim that the lack of professional opportunities in EFL comes from anything but our own lack of imagination. And, since she aims to practice what she preaches, she will be able to give pithy examples from her own experience as she is currently preparing her own next career move.
Letting Go of the Classroom - from Role Play to Improvisation
by Damian Corcoran
In this talk and workshop we will together define what is roleplay and how it differs from improvisation. We will practise techniques for priming students for "performing" in English and participate in a variety of roleplays. We will observe university level French engineering students forming groups, carrying out role play instructions and engaging in a business roleplay. We will explore how classroom management affects student performance, how to get over the obstacles preventing authentic language use, and how feedback impacts learning. Finally we will observe an improvisation class where humour and the impulse to entertain become major motivators to use English in new and unpredictable ways.
Damian Corcoran (BA English DipTEFL) has been a freelance trainer working in Paris for 20 years. He specializes in English for business in companies such as Apple, and Roche but has recently been involved in higher education creating a pilot program using role plays and improvisation in an engineering Grand Ecole. He is also a trained and experienced actor appearing recently in training films for CapGemini Consulting and regularly recording dialogues for English teaching methods. He continues to be surprised by the inventiveness of his students.
Getting Your CV Right!
by Erin Douglas
Is your resume falling on deaf ears? Have you applied to job openings with no response? This interactive session is designed to give you ideas for improving the format and content of your resume to make it stand out to potential employers: language schools, companies, and universities. Please bring a copy of your own resume with you.Erin Douglas is head of the English training team within SunGard Global Services, where she has been recruiting English teachers since 2006.
Thinking Critically About Teaching and Research
by Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes
Theory is often supposed to be of little use in everyday practice, and yet it is my contention that relying purely on our professional experience and our personal beliefs may be extremely misleading in the long run, especially if everything seems to be going well at a given moment in time... This talk will try to highlight the validity of the constructs of epistemological obstacles (Bachelard) and of epistemological responsibly (Kelly) in our profession and show how reflective practice (Dornyei) may lead to more rewarding results both for the teacher and the learners. According to Bachelard there is no reflection without reference to theory, this position implies that teachers and researchers meet and work together, which still poses some problems (Ellis) which will be discussed.Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes is a full professor (English learning and teaching research) in the department of French as a Foreign Language of Sorbonne nouvelle University. He is director of DILTEC (Didactique des langues, des textes et des cultures - EA 2288) a joint research laboratory of Sorbonne nouvelle University and Pierre et Marie Curie University-Paris 6. His major interest lies in the link between theory and practice in language learning and teaching. This is related to the way he sees his job as research supervisor focusing on epistemological and methodological problems as exemplified in a book published by Ophrys in 2005. However a recent IGI Global publication co-authored with J-C Bertin and P Gravé (2010) shows a renewed interest in tasks and learning environments.
10 Ways to Earn More Money as a Language Trainer
by Claire Oldmeadow
With the cost of living increasing steadily in France and elsewhere a lot of people are starting to feel the pinch, even when they work full time. Low-earning English language trainers are no exception and are likely to be seriously affected by inflation.
However, even in this difficult market, there are a number of ways that language trainers can move up the scale and increase their income. It just requires a bit of imagination and making the effort to add a few strings to one's bow. Specialising in ESP, CLIL, obtaining an Intercultural Trainer's Certificate, mastering a videoconferencing tool, becoming an agent for a language product are just some of the suggestions.
In this workshop, I will be drawing on concrete examples from the experience of various members of The Language Network and exploring some of the possibilities -- for both teachers working as 'salariés' and for self-employed teachers. This will be an interactive session and the participants will be invited to contribute substantially to the discussion.
Claire Oldmeadow has over 25 years of experience in the language training sector in France, as a trainer, language school manager, teacher trainer in the area of ESP and a language test writer. She is currently in charge of Test Production and Development for the Franco-British Chamber Examinations Department and Manager of The Language Network association.
The state of play of the French language Training Market
by Andrew Wickham
Two years after the publication of Linguaid's ground-breaking market study "The Language Training Market in the era of Globalisation", which described how the globalisation on French corporations were generating fundamental changes in the nature of language training, in teacher's jobs and in the competitive environment for training organisations, what is the situation today?
How has the economic crisis and government reform of professional training affected the industry? Are offshore-based distance learning and e-learning providers continuing to make inroads into face to face training? Are we witnessing the emergence of the era of the "McTrainer" and the return of the vacataire in the guise of autoentrepreneur? Are the much-vaunted web 2.0 technologies living up to their promises? Are they just a fad or are they having an impact on the real practices of teachers? What opportunities are these changes generating for trainers and training organisations? The talk will have a specific focus on 3 critical issues : With the rapid changes in the language trainer's job and the increasing emergence of specialised training and technology-based resources, are current teacher qualifications, such as CELTA and DELTA, sufficient or is it time to develop further training and experience-validation certifications that will enable skilled trainers to stand out in the crowd?
Andrew Wickham began as a language trainer then moved to training management, set up and ran a training company for 15 years, and in 2004, became a project manager of industrialised blended learning systems. Today he is an independent consultant working for language training organisations, corporations, publishers and distributors. He co-authored in 2009, with Joss Frimond, the first comprehensive market survey of professional language training in France "The Language Training Market in the era of Globalisation".
Motivating Young Learners
by Dede Wilson
This workshop is an interactive session that looks at the role of the teacher in motivating young learners. It considers how teacher behaviour and enthusiasm can encourage positive attitudes to learning from an early age.
We will explore different ways of making language enjoyable, fun, memorable and relevant to different types of learners in pre- school and primary language classes. We will experiment with ideas such as using puppets, drama activities, songs and pronunciation fun. Nowhere more than with these age groups is teacher involvement in motivating learners and maintaining their interest so obviously central to their success.
Dede Wilson is a freelance ELT consultant and teacher trainer. She worked for many years at Westminster College in London as EFL/ESOL teacher and teacher trainer for both native and non-native speaker teachers. During that time, she developed a combination training course for teachers of English and Language teaching which led to the Oxford Cambridge RSA qualification. Her background is in pre-school and primary teaching, and adult education. She has a BA in Psychology, a PGCE in Education and an MA in ELT & Applied Linguistics from Kings College, London. She has been involved in teacher development courses in the UK and the British Council around the world since 1990 for teachers of YLs in Central and Eastern Europe, China and the USA. She ran a regular International Summer course, 'Drama Plus' with husband Ken Wilson, director of the English Teaching Theatre, for 10 years in Hungary.
