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Day 2: Saturday 28 February Time Venue Activity 10.15 – 11.30 Various PARALLEL SESSION 1 continued This workshop will be purely practical and especially useful for primary and secondary school teachers as we’ll be trying out the activities together. Rageshree Mukherjee is currently working as a Senior Teacher Trainer for the British Council in Mumbai. She manages teacher training projects across West India for primary and secondary teachers. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 10.15 – 10.45 105 Action research in a smart way via smartphones: the new mode to meliorate teachers, Kannampurath Lakshmi Is the smartphone an aid to improve teacher performance at the tertiary level? Do the observation practices in groups through smartphone applications help in improving oneself and a team of teachers simultaneously? The presentation focuses on the impact of using smartphones and instant messaging applications for action research in the quality of performance of tertiary level teachers. Also it focuses on the practice of group assessments of teachers for the betterment of the English learning process. Kannampurath Lakshmi is a research scholar specializing in ELT at VIT University with one year working experience as a communicative English trainer. 11.00 – 11.30 Enhancing soft-skills and communicative competence through an innovative project in West Bengal, Arindam Sengupta This presentation aims to introduce an innovative project entitled ‘Education to Employability’ undertaken to aid learners from low economic status in West Bengal. The project focused on developing workplace communication in ESL through a curriculum based on the CLT approach and used relevant tasks to do so. Based on the feedback of the project, methods to formulate curriculum and design materials to maintain efficacy in ESL teaching will be recommended to teacher educators. Arindam Sengupta teaches ESL and is a teacher-trainer and curriculum designer. He is the key trainer of the ‘Education to Employability’ project in West Bengal. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 10.15 – 10.45 106 The role of institutional leadership in teacher training and quality, Anagha Padwad and Amol Padwad The school head is an important link between INSET policies and programmes and their implementation with teachers. The school head’s mediation can positively or negatively influence teachers’ response to INSET policies and initiatives. In this case study of a CBSE-affiliated school we discuss the challenges and opportunities of the school head’s mediating role and some innovations she tried in her school. We also discuss implications and insights from her experiences and experiments. Anagha Padwad is the Principal, Sunny’s Spring Dale School, Bhandara, and a teacher trainer and educator with 20 years’ experience in teaching. 44
Day 2: Saturday 28 February Time Venue Activity 10.15 – 11.30 Various PARALLEL SESSION 1 continued Amol Padwad teaches in J. M. Patel College, Bhandara. He is the Convener, AINET, and an ELT consultant with a special interest in teacher development. 11.00 – 11.30 Curriculum review: need and modalities to endorse prerequisite ‘language competence’ in teacher education, Harisimran Sandhu While the ELT context in India is peculiarly wide-ranging, teacher education is not, being largely underpinned by a uniform curriculum that seems out of sync, among other things, with the low language proficiency among the vast majority of teachers. This presentation builds a case to develop minimal ‘language competence’ before imparting language awareness and pedagogical competence among teachers. This could have far-reaching pedagogic implications to, eventually, optimize language learning among the target population of students. Harisimran Sandhu is a freelance ELT professional based in India, who is an examiner, teacher-trainer and training consultant. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 11.30 – 12.00 Networking and coffee/tea break ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 12.00 – 13.00 Various PARALLEL SESSION 2 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 12.00 – 13.00 Main Hall Are we supporting teachers to address student diversity in the classroom? Dilemmas and solutions, Renu Singh This paper draws on data from Young Lives, a longitudinal research study that is tracking 3,000 children in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India since 2002. There are worrying signs that learning standards have fallen since 2006. The paper discusses the findings and explores teaching quality within both government and private schools. Policy analysis further highlights the gaps in professional development that teachers require to support the most disadvantaged students. Recommendations will cover what aspects of inclusive pedagogy are critical for addressing diversity in classrooms. Renu Singh has over twenty-six years of teaching experience in policy analysis and research, teacher education, general and special education and early childhood development. She is currently working as Director, Young Lives, India, University of Oxford and is a visiting Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia University. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 12.00 – 13.00 G01/02 How to help teachers find, create, recycle and adapt good-quality teaching materials, Katherine Bilsborough In this workshop we will look at ways for teacher educators to help teachers find, create, recycle and adapt good-quality materials that are appropriate for their learners. We will explore ways to help teachers exploit authentic materials for classroom use and we will see how teachers 45
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