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.