Liam Brown is currently on a career break from the British Council London where he was Training and Development Manager for the global Teaching Centre Network. Based in Damascus, he is working on a number of design, research, facilitation and training projects. He was previously Director of the British Council Professional Development Centre, a leading training provider in Singapore.
Liam is engaged by the English for the Workplace agenda particularly focusing on transition points of school / university into work.
He writes and has presented at many conferences around the world on training, management and human resource issues.
The great paradigm shift in people management in the last decade – from “command and control” to “co-ordinate and communicate”, appeared to promote one significant message: we as managers cannot manage the performance of our people, we can only influence. This is no small thing.
The ELT manager as facilitator, a broker of resources, suggests a new skills set, as much as mindset, is required. This presentation suggests ways for managers to cope when things are less certain, simple and controllable.
I describe innovations in performance management formulas and show how we can participate in the creation of knowledge, foster collaboration and relationship building in people-friendly ways that recognise, and (as Adrian Underhill predicted in 2004) “even delight, in working with the fuzzy, the unclear, the unfinished.”
From knowledge management, we look at three types of collaboration and discuss a framework which allows us to go beyond older models of formal team-based approaches to knowledge building and sharing.
Gavin has worked in education for the past 20 years, as a teacher, materials developer, IT manager and web/user interface designer. Until the end of 2003 he held two posts: the first as Head of the New Technologies Department at International House Barcelona and the second was Lead Developer for the online training centre Net Languages. In 2003 Gavin set up The Consultants-E with Nicky Hockly. He is a past coordinator of the IATEFL Learning Technologies Special Interest Group and also past editor of the SIG newsletter. In 2007 he was elected Honorary Secretary of IATEFL.
include: "The Internet & The Language Classroom" (CUP 2000, 2007) and "How to Teach English with Technology" (Longman 2007, with Nicky Hockly - winner of the International House Ben Warren Award 2008). He has also recently published a chapter for a forthcoming book on Second Life in further and higher education, with Howard Ramsay.
Gavin's company (www.theconsultants-e.com) works primarily in online teacher development and training and their Cert ICT course won a British Council ELTON in 2007. Among other courses the company also offers the only online Cert IBET course. When not working on all that, Gavin looks after his three islands in Second Life and spends time building and scripting for the education community - his Second Life project EduCation@EduNation was shortlisted for a second British Council ELTON award in 2009. You can follow Gavin's blog at: http://slife.dudeney.com
Managing Institutional Introduction of Technologies
The introduction of technology into teaching institutions is often a top-down decision largely governed by economics or a desire to be seen to be cutting edge in approach. This talk looks at the rationale for introducing new technologies into education, the key stakeholders in such a process, their needs and concerns and attempts to draw up a list of success factors for institutions embarking on this process.
Andy Hockley is a freelance educational management consultant and trainer based in Romania. He is co-author of "From Teacher to Manager" (CUP, 2008) and co-creator of the International Diploma in Language Teaching Management (IDLTM). He has been coordinating and training on the IDLTM since its inception in 2001.
Anyone who has ever been a teacher knows the value of reflective practice. It not only ensures that we focus on the students’ learning but also that we continue to develop as teachers. But it is not just teaching and teachers that benefit from this process. Reflecting “in and on action” (as Donald Schon and later Peter Senge termed it) is a valuable professional development tool for all of us.
This practically oriented talk aims to look at the benefits of reflective practice for managers (and others), and also to offer a structured way of reflecting on our work.
Programme Development Manager in International House London, responsible for defining new courses and products International House London offer, most particularly online courses. Her areas of special interest are management and distance learning. She has taught and trained in the UK, Spain, Hungary and France. She is the author and Programme Manager for the suite of online management training modules offered by International House London, which lead to the Diploma in Educational Management Skills. She is also the author of the Educational Management module for the MSc in TESOL/TESP offered by the University of Aston, and a specialist tutor for the University of Aston.
Many teacher/managers are well trained as teachers but not so well trained as managers. Many new managers feel that managing teachers is extremely difficult. In this talk we will look at the qualities staff expect from their managers both inside and outside ELT organisations, and consider what, if any, factors make managing teachers different. We will draw conclusions about management behaviour and suggest some guidelines for newer managers.
George is an educational coach, trainer and consultant. He has delivered talks and workshops in over 50 different countries for IATEFL, the British Council and other organisations. George is the lead tutor on the English UK Diploma in Management and a tutor on the International Diploma in Language Teaching Management. He is an inspector of language schools for the British Council in the UK (Accreditation UK). He is the director of the new Bell Teacher Campus at Homerton College, Cambridge. George was the treasurer of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) for six years and is the co-ordinator of the IATEFL Leadership & Management Special Interest Group (LAMSIG).
George trained as a state school teacher in the UK, has an MA in Applied Linguistics and is a Master Practitioner and certified trainer in NLP. George lives with his pet camel and monkey in Ramsgate, England.
How can managers develop themselves as well as helping to develop their staff? Although the skills needed to be a manager and a teacher are not identical, in this talk I will argue that the developmental opportunities available to both groups are essentially the same.
In this seminar we will explore the benefits for managers and teachers of a number of options including:
- Formal courses
- Coaching and mentoring
- Observations
- Training events and conferences
- Communities of practice
- On-line training opportunities.
Attention will also be given as to how these developmental options can be applied to both managers and teachers.
Herbert Puchta has a Ph.D. in ELT Pedagogy from the University of Graz, Austria, and is currently Professor of English at the Teacher Training University (Pädagogische Academy) in Graz. He has been a plenary speaker at a number of international conferences, and has conducted workshops and given seminars in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Paraguay, and Uruguay. He has also worked as a speaker for the British Council and has contributed to several British Council Specialist Seminars.
Herbert is a Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming. For almost two decades, he has carried out research into the practical application of findings from cognitive psychology to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Herbert has co-authored numerous course books for the teaching of English as a foreign language, as well as articles and resource books.
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