English Language Teacher Training Regional Workshop in Nepal

In the UK, Hornby Schools are recognised as one of the most prestigious activities in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). Each year these schools have enabled teachers to develop their expertise and upgrade their English teaching skills. Hornby schools have been running since 2000 and have helped directly train many teachers, who have gone on to cascade the workshops to hundreds of teachers across the South Asia region.

Hornby Regional School 2013 (For Teacher Trainers and experienced English teachers)

Date                 26 – 30 November, 2013

Time                        9 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.  

Venue                 Park Village Resort, Kathmandu www.ktmgh.com/park-village-hotels-resorts.html

Topic                 The Low Resource Classroom

Course Directors   Richard Smith, Jovan Ilic, Amol Padwad

Richard Smith is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, where he teaches on MA and PhD programmes. He has a keen interest in supporting teachers who are ‘teaching in difficult circumstances’ and has given a number of workshops in this area, including at the NELTA conference in Kathmandu and Janakpur earlier this year. He is the coordinator of the ‘Teaching English in Large Classes’ network (bit.ly/telcnet-home).

Dr Jovan Ilic is Head of English & Programmes at the British Council Nepal. He has been a teacher, teacher trainer, examiner and assessor for the past 20 years for Cambridge University, International House London, and the British Council. He is currently leading on teacher training and examination reform in Nepal.

Amol Padwad has been teaching on graduate and postgraduate English language and literature courses for over 25 years after being a school teacher for four years. He has also been a teacher trainer and ELT consultant to various government and private organisations. He has managed some innovative national projects, including one on the effective use of prescribed classroom materials.

Hornby School Objectives

For teachers to

•Be able to exploit the school coursebook to the maximum

•Be able to exploit the learners and teacher as ‘resources’ and as a source of ideas for the classroom

•Be able to create Teaching and Learning Materials from basic materials or waste products or any materials readily available in the environment

•Have a variety of samples of low and no resource activities

•Have analysed samples of low and no resource activities and established the criteria for quality low and no resource activities

•Have designed low and no resource activities and tried them out with peers

•Have implemented low and no resource activities in a micro-teaching session

•Have contributed to a booklet of low and no resource activities for use by all HRS participants.

Hornby Trust

The Hornby Schools are run with the support of the A. S. Hornby Educational Trust, UK. The Trust was established in 1961 by A. S. Hornby, popularly known for the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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Fees: £30 per participant which includes tuition, training materials and resources, and full board accommodation at the Park Village Resort, Kathmandu. Application: you can download an application form from our website www.britishcouncil.org/nepal Registration: to register for the Hornby School, please email your application to Jovan Ilic jovan.ilic@britishcouncil.org.np. Deadline for registration is November 11 2013, but places are limited.