RELO
office is seeking applications from the novice teachers of English who
would like to participate at the Teacher Development Workshop “FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY” to be held in Kyiv on July 8-12, 2012.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
This
five-day workshop will introduce novice English language teachers to
methodologies and approaches that may help them as they begin their careers.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This
interactive training is for novice teachers only, teachers in their first or
second year of teaching or in their last year of university.
The
trainer and the participants will look at what makes effective language
instruction from both the teacher’s and the student’s perspective. The program
will help explore the building blocks of task-based learning, lesson-planning,
teaching reading and writing strategies. Effective error correction and
classroom management will be addressed throughout the workshop as it applies to
each of the topics covered. Participants
will devise a plan of how they intend to apply their learning to their next
teaching context and will be asked to participate in round table discussions and
reflect on studied material.
INVITED TRAINERS
JENNIFER
HERRIN holds an M.A., Education-TESOL from the University of New Mexico and a
B.B.A., Marketing from the University of Texas. Ms. Herrin has taught English
and conducted teacher development in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia,
Australia, and the US. She served as an English Teaching Fellow in Panama
(1996-97), a Fulbright Lecturer in Nicaragua (2001-02), the Senior English
Language Fellow in Ukraine (2006-07),and the Senior English Language Fellow in
Argentina (2011). She has also conducted projects in the Republic of Georgia,
Argentina, and Ukraine through U.S. Department of State Specialist Programs. In
the U.S., she was an ESL instructor at Central New Mexico Community College for
7 years. This fall she will be teaching at the English Language Institute
at the University of California at San Diego. She is especially interested in
exploring task-based techniques and interactive methodologies for learning
language.
CAROL HADDAWAY is serving as the Senior English Language Fellow
(ELF) in Kyiv, Ukraine for the academic year 2011-12 with the English Teaching
Resource Center at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Prior to this assignment she served as
a Senior ELF in Damascus, Syria where she conducted teacher training for the
English Language Supervisors, Ministry of Education and at the American
Language Center. Carol has designed and taught TESOL Methodology courses face
to face and online in the E-Teacher
Scholarship Program at UMBC and was a full time Instructional Specialist at
Anne Arundel Community College. She also designed and taught ESP for Medical
and Science Professionals at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the
University of Maryland, Baltimore. She has a Master’s degree in Instructional
System Design/ESOL Bilingual from UMBC and a MSc degree in Applied Behavioral
Sciences from JHU.
OTHER
DETAILS Dates: July 8-12, 2012
Time: 9:30 -16:30
Number of
participants: 30
Venue: INTERNEWS Ukraine
Vul.
Ryzhs’ka 15, Kyiv
Language of
instruction: English
If you are selected, you will
be provided with 5 days of training. The
program is open for novice teachers from Ukraine. Transportation costs and
accommodation expenses in Kyiv will not be reimbursed. More details will be
provided in your acceptance letter. The workshop ends at 15:15 on July 12.
SELECTION
CRITERIA
Successful applicants will be teachers in their first or
second year of teaching or in their last year of pedagogical university and
will have the following skills and competencies:
·
a good command
of English
·
ability and
willingness to work hard as part of a team with other participants
·
active
listening and communicative skills
Participants will be accepted on a first come first serve basis.
Priority will be given to teachers working at public schools and universities.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should send
the attached Application Form to training.novice@gmail.com by July 5, 2012.
Only successful applicants will be
informed about the results of selection via e-mail by July 6, 2012
APPLICATION DEADLINE – 5 July 2012
For application form please contact us: woa_ternopil@yahoo.com