The British Council Russia organised a Summer School for teachers of English which was held in Moscow on August 17 – 28, 2012.

This was a 10 day intensive course for teachers of English focusing on developing teacher training skills. The language of instruction was English.

	Venue:			Country Resort Hotel
	Course director:			Pat McLaughlin
	Course tutors:			Vera Bobkova
				Irina Kostyukovich
				Ludmila Zakharova
				Lucia Zhurukova

Read more about the course director and trainers of the Summer School 2012.

The aim

The overall aim of the school is to raise the capacity of the participants in designing, delivering, and evaluating teacher training sessions.

The content will be designed by the course director and tutors to enable participants to develop their capacity as teacher trainers in practical and interactive way.

Programme outline

The British Council Summer School Moscow is designed to enable the participants to enhance and develop their knowledge and skills as Teacher Educators through reflective practice by exploring

			Metaphor and Continuing Professional Development
			Approaches to Teacher Development and Training
			The qualities and the skills of the good teacher educator
			Materials development for teacher education -team writing
			Micro-training

The sessions include interactive plenary and team writing activities with opportunity to trial and discuss the developing materials through micro-training.

The application for participants is closed now

We selected 25 participants and we were looking for applications from experienced, forward looking teachers and teacher trainers

Thank you for all the applications sent to Nadia Gulevich (nadia.gulevich@britishcouncil.ru) by July, 25 2012.

You will be informed if you were successful by August, 3 2012.

For successful applicants the participation in the summer school was free. British Council covered accommodation and meals for the duration of the summer school.

You are not eligible to apply if you already participated in British Council Summer schools or other intensive training programmes.

Criteria for participants

			a competent command of English
			a degree in ELT, education or similar
			at least 5 years of formal teaching experience
			formal or informal teacher training experience
			good basic IT skills (MS office, e-mail, Internet)
			participation in professional communities, access to other teachers in current work settings
			initiative and enthusiasm to develop professionally
			experience of a project in ELT which has brought professional benefit to a group of teachers
			potential ‘movers and shakers’ in ELT, potential to disseminate the skills gained during summer school