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Adults English Courses, British Council Prague, Czech Republic © Dan Materna
Trainer training
Trainer Development Course February 2010

British Council conducted an international 5-day intensive residential Trainer Development course, February 1 – 5, 2010.
Tutors:
UK teacher trainers and materials developers from British Council:
Maggie Milne –Advisor Learning and Teaching, British Council, Manchester.
Rob Lewis –Teacher Website Consultant, British Council, Lisbon.

Course outcomes:

  • identify skills that are transferable from teaching to training
  • identify and describe learning styles
  • relate learning styles to activity typs and tasks
  • define motivation and relate to training contexts
  • relate teacher levels of experience to issues and challenges in delivering training
  • analyse problems and provide solutions to enable effective presentation of input and activities
  • provide constructive feedback to trainees
  • evaluate training materials for trainees of different experiential levels
  • establish a checklist of evaluation criteria
  • express valid, measurable learning outcomes
  • deliver a teacher training activity to peers.

During the course the trainers used examples from a variety of teacher training courses available at the British Council such as TKT Essentials course, learning technologies course and other teacher development workshops.

Criteria for participants

  • a competent command of English (minimum B2)
  • a degree in ELT, education or similar
  • at least 5 years of formal teaching experience
  • formal or informal teacher training experience
  • initiative and enthusiasm to develop professionally
  • experience of a project in ELT which has brought professional benefit to a group of teachers
  • evidence of the ability to disseminate the knowledge and skills gained during the course to  other teachers.