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TRAINING NEWS .

Council teams up with NILE NILE NORWICH

to solve trainer training trap

By Melanie Butler trainers should be prepared to
The launch of any professional work hard.
award in teacher education is Senior trainer Maria Heron
newsworthy. The path to told the Gazette that, “The
Graduates fr
becoming an ELT trainer has award is very intensive with Graduates from the summer 2019 Award programme, with om the summer 2019 Award programme, with
trainers Maria Heron, Thom Kiddle and Tony Prince.on, Thom Kiddle and Tony Prince.
trainers Maria Her
never been straightforward. daily assessment tasks.” She added
However, the launch of a that, “participants work together to
qualification certified by the design two micro-training sessions explained, “with two trainers train teachers until you are a
British Council and delivered in and to deliver them to their peers conducting the interviews.” teacher trainer.
the UK by NILE Norwich, is a at the end of the course.” Trainer training is not Reports from the first few
milestone in the development of The British Council developed altogether new and a number of cohorts of participants have been
the profession of ELT. the award and has used the providers, including NILE, have encouraging.
The British Council Professional programme in projects in Cuba, run such courses in the past. What “The experience of taking the
Award for Teacher Educators, Ukraine and on the Indian ELT has lacked, however, is an Professional Award is a major
to give it its full title, is a two- subcontinent. The Council has externally validated programme, highlight in my continuing
week face-to-face programme, partnered with NILE, the top particularly for teachers in development,” wrote Hugo Dart,
consisting of three assessed units: ranking UK teacher training mainstream education, where who teaches in Brazil. “Those two
an introduction to teacher specialist, based on its accreditation the ‘apprenticeship’ route used weeks I spent in Norwich made
development; a unit on making report, to offer the award in the UK. for trainers delivering the TEFL me a more capable professional
training more effective; and a The programme provides courses offered by Cambridge and and revealed new, exciting career
workshop on design and delivery. quality standards for both pre- Trinity is simply impractical. opportunities.”
According to the trainers at service and in-service training, The British Council, working The Professional Award
NILE, who piloted the course in and is open to native and non- in the UK with NILE, may finally for Teacher Educators will be
the UK and have already delivered native speaker teachers who meet have solved the Catch-22 facing delivered this summer, along
it three times (two international the entrance criteria. would-be trainers: you can’t be with the growing number of
groups, as well as a closed group “The selection procedure is a teacher trainer until you have teaching courses available at
of Tunisian teachers) would-be rigorous and fair,” Maria Heron trained teachers, but you cannot NILE Norwich.

Professional Award for

Teacher Educators

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