The New Courses We Offer You in 2010
Mario Rinvolucri, UK
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EASTER: Train-the-Trainer
NORTHERN SUMMER: Literature July 18th to 23rd
NORTHERN SUMMER Using Technology in the classroom August 1st to 14th
New and forthcoming books from Pilgrims-connected authors
A nostalgic look back at our 35th Anniversary Conference ( August 2009)
England moves from the sun of August to the rains of September, the Southern Cone of Latin America can see the promise of Spring just over the horizon while in the Gulf Emirates the torrid heat is giving way to something a little more bearable.
Let me choose three of the five brand-new courses we have to offer you next year , one at Easter and two in the Northern hemisphere summer.
The one week course, March 28th to April 3rd, will interest you if you are already a teacher trainer who has cut her teeth and wants a new and exciting input to your current practice. Apart from the input we offer, you will benefit from the chance to compare notes with other trainers from all over the globe. With our publication, THE TEACHER TRAINER, we have helped lead the field in humanistic teacher training over the past 25 years. At least five people in our network have a specialized interest in trainer training, to mention just three: Sheelagh Deller, Tessa Woodward and Tim Hahn.
In offering a one-weeker on the methodology of teaching literature we are responding to demand from various parts of Europe for such work. In 2009 we sent trainers to work on this area with secondary teachers in both Sicily and Switzerland. We are also aware that the Brit Lit movement ( B Council) has aroused a great deal of new interest in this field.
The course is likely to be taught by a tutor who himself is a poet and who approaches literature both as a creative artist and as a teacher.
Humanistic thinking is a state of heart and mind so using emerging technologies for learner- centred teaching is a natural development. This course will show you how to smoothly integrate up-to-the minute technical stuff with teaching that gives the learner primacy.
The idea that there is some sort of conflict between humanistic teaching ( old-fashioned) and using oodles of moodles, blogs, and IWB’s ( cutting edge) is absurd. Even Powerpoint can be used in focusedly useful ways.
Teaching Chunks of Language, Seth Lindstromberg and Frank Boers, Helbling Languages, 2009
Being Creative-challenge and change in the classroom, Chaz Pugliese, Delta, forthcoming
The Company Words Keep, Paul Davis and Hanna Kryszewska, Delta, (forthcoming)
Culture in our Cclassrooms, Gill Johnson and Mario Rinvolucri, Delta, (forthcoming)
In our trainer network the writing of resource books is natural activity parallel to and in harmony with teacher training. We see the two forms of work as going hand-in-hand.
It was a real pleasure to go to plenary presentations by leaders of the humanistic movement like Jane Arnold, Tessa Woodward, Mike McCarthy*, and Alan Maley.
The workshop leaders included people like Luke Prodromou, Adrian Underhill, Eleanor Watts and Gill Johnson. I went to Eleanor’s 4.5 hours on STORY-TELLING IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL. Amazing to relax in a group run by such a consummately good trainer and just enjoy her content and above all her calm, deep, congruent way of dealing with us.
If you missed this opportunity of learning from a brilliant team bound together by common ideals, put the date for the 40th Pilgrims Anniversary Conference in your diary: AUGUST 2014.
* Mike McCarthy is a leader in the humanistic movement in the sense that his grammar
of oral English is based on the relationship between speakers, on their feelings towards
each other. You could say that the CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH at last
concedes a prime and rightful place to affect.
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