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W dniach 5–9 października British Council organizuje po raz pierwszy globalną konferencję online poświęconą tematyce ustawicznego rozwoju zawodowego nauczycieli (continuing professional development – CPD). Na program konferencji składa się ponad 60 sesji prowadzonych przez prelegentów z całego świata oraz panele dyskusyjne.


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Conference programme - Day 1. Wednesday 5 October 2016

Briony Beaven - Teacher stories

Briony Beaven explores the practice of telling stories of professional experience as a powerful form of development.

Date: 5 October 2016

Time: 13.30 - 14.00 UK time (find out what time this is in your country)

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Telling stories of professional experience can be a powerful form of development for teachers and teacher educators. It can help teachers to understand and make more informed decisions about their classroom practices. Teacher knowledge involves the interaction of theory with beliefs and experience, primarily about the daily reality of teachers’ lives, and does not, in the main, comprise the knowledge in academic texts, which for many teachers seems to have little relation to their teaching. Setting up teachers’ conversation or storytelling groups can provide the space, time and support for teachers to consider and present a shaped version of their classroom experiences. Such groups also function to build strong teacher communities or networks, raising commitment to teaching quality, and thus benefiting not only individual teachers but their educational institutions.

In this talk I will sketch out the background to storytelling for teacher and teacher educator development, including clarifying the role of narrative in learning. I will illustrate how teachers and educators can create a collaborative learning space that links personal experiences of teaching and training to the realm of public knowledge. We will briefly survey ways of focusing teachers’ professional stories, for example thematising storytelling sessions, reframing stories and comparing the story of a feature film or novel in which the hero or heroine is a teacher with one’s own teaching story.

Finally, we will reflect on the objectives of the activities and their suitability to achieve their stated objectives, the potential effectiveness of the activities as learning opportunities and the appropriateness of the activities for the participants’ contexts.

About the speaker:

Briony started her career teaching English in a British secondary state school. She is now an ELT consultant, teacher trainer, materials writer and teacher. She is the Delta Course Director for the Munich Adult Education Institute, and is also a CELTA Tutor and Assessor and a Delta Assessor. Briony is a NILE Associate Teacher Trainer, who has worked with teachers in many countries including the UK, Germany, Austria, Poland, Libya, Turkey, Russia and China, and who currently supervises students on the NILE MA course. In addition, she teaches Classroom Language to trainee teachers at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.

Briony has been the Co-ordinator of the Teacher Trainers’ and Educators’ Special Interest Group of IATEFL and Editor of IATEFL Conference Selections. She has presented at many international conferences including IATEFL Annual Conference, International House London Teacher Educators’ Conference and English Teaching Professional Conference. Briony has written coursebooks for Oxford University Press and for Cornelsen Verlag, and a teacher development course for the British Council China, as well as publishing in The Teacher Trainer, English Teaching Professional and Folio. Her ELT qualifications include the UCLES Dip. TEFL and a Doctorate of Education in TEFL.

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