First days on Bell's Becoming a Teacher Trainer (BTT) course at Homerton College, Cambridge (part 1)
July 26th, arrival Sunday
I'm in the West House, room 337
I got to the college in the afternoon, unpacked and got ready for the event Bell had prepared for us course attendants.
Me holding room key and invitation
In the evening, Bell gave a welcome buffet dinner to help us break the ice, make acquaintance and relax. Jim
Scrivener, Academic Director, gave us a light-hearted
welcome in the lovely English manner.
Jim Scrivener welcoming us
Here have come teachers - of English mostly, but also of other subjects - from all over Europe as well as from Argentina, Australia, Egypt and the US. They have different interests: polish/enrich their English, try new methodologies, keep up-to-date with the use of technology in the classroom and, of course, learn how to teach teachers.
Those of us whose projects have been approved for European Union funding are particularly interested in establishing a network of cooperation for dissemination, job shadowing activities, virtual swap-shops and the like. I'll let you know more about them in future posts!
This is Homerton College. It's like being at Harry Potter's College of Wizardry!
When I learnt that my tutor was going to be Pete Sharma I couldn't believe it, as he is one of the very first people to write about Blended Learning in ELT.
Tras comunicarnos a mediados de junio 2015 que nuestro proyecto habÃa sido aprobado, el Servicio Español Para la Internacionalización de la Educación - SEPIE, pronunciado con acento en la i :-) - nos pidió la asistencia de un representante de nuestra Escuela a unas jornadas que tendrÃan lugar en Murcia el 22 y 23 de junio con el tema...
II Encuentro Nacional de Proyectos de Acción Clave 1. Movilidad para
el Aprendizaje del Personal de Educación Escolar (KA101) y de Educación
de Personas Adultas (KA104)
Catering
for Multilingualism and its Demands: Blended Learning Teacher Training
at C1 Level / Atención a las demandas del plurilingüismo: Formación del
profesorado a nivel C1 en modalidad semipresencial
La primera fase del proyecto acaba de comenzar ahora. Es la llamada etapa de movilidad, consistente en que las profesoras viajen al extranjero para formarse. AsÃ, entre julio y agosto de 2015, cada una realizará un curso de dos semanas de duración:
Amalia Santana ampliará su comprensión del diseño de cursos semipresenciales ("Blended Learning: Combining Online and Face-to-Face Teaching", en Bell, Cambridge, Reino Unido).
I’m Fanny and I’m doing a course on
“Teaching Advanced Students” at Pilgrims at the University of
Kent, Canterbury. Canterbury is a place not to be missed if you
happen to be in England.
Today’s my 3rd day at
Pilgrims and so far so good.
Loads of new things, ideas, experiences
to take in, so imagine how much more I’ll learn by the end of the
two weeks that I’ll be here!!!
Most importantly,
I’ve met some wonderful people from all over the world.
Hope you join me throughout this
journey and find it as enjoyable as I do.
Hi everyone! We're
very excited to announce that a project of our school's - whose
planning, drafting and delivery was very time-consuming - has been approved! The title of the project is... "Catering
for Multilingualism and its Demands: Blended Learning Teacher Training
at C1 Level / Atención a las demandas del plurilingüismo: Formación del
profesorado a nivel C1 en modalidad semipresencial"
More info coming soon!
This project will be co-funded by the European Union