Hello fellow teachers !
How long have you been in the job?
Are you a novice trainee?
Are you a beginner or a veteran?
No matter what your experience is!
You are the class expert: you know how to manage it, how to
master it, how to achieve your objectives according to the plan you set.
Still, you need feedback from an outsider, a visitor, a trainer, an
observer!
We are all trainees in that sense: we do need some assistance to improve
our teaching and update it. We all want to check whether we are doing
well enough to lead our classes towards success and respectable
performance.
This check up is done with the help of the observer/trainer who is a
participant in the training process. S/he is a permanent trainee
providing help to the less experienced and gaining ideas from the more
proficient.
Train? How? When? What? How often?
The “HOW” is crucially important. Interaction with colleagues is a
delicate matter and should be conducted smoothly and gently.
It is all about “rapport”: a friendly relationship with others.
Whoever you are, you should be sensitive to others and the way they
perceive you is essential to this rapport .
May the following rhymes I scribbled further elicit this “rapport” between
trainers and trainees.
Skim, read this poem and respond to it.
Do you agree/disagree with any of the ideas it conveys?
Please send your comments to:
Jawida.Benafia@edunet.tn
jawidabenafia@yahoo.fr
I will be happy to reply to each response.
All the best from a senior colleague of yours, an indefatigable ELTer and
TEFLer,
Jawida Ben Afia, Inspector General of Education,
Ministry of Education and Training, Tunisia.
Click here to read the poem
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