Teaching English Radio RTCI kicked off series 3 with a special 'World Teachers' Day ' programme.
This year's slogan is 'A Call for Teachers! '
With this in mind, the discussion focused on teachers’ employability and in particular their certification – and recognition of it and teachers’ ability to apply for jobs both in their country of origin as well as abroad.
In addition to Nigel Bellingham, British Council Tunisia Country Director and Kiros Langston, English Projects Manager in the studio there were three Tunisian teachers.
When Nigel talked about his experience of having been a teacher he said that teaching ' is a lonely experience , you can be isolated and there is a need to be part of a network to exchange ideas'.
During the programme the vocational teacher trainer mentioned that two years ago she didn't have the opportunity for training nor to meet her colleagues to share and exchange ideas but recently through the British Council's Employability program she achieved TKT Certification.
One of the Tunisian teachers had done one year's training and said she'd learnt by doing things;on the theme of 'learning by doing something' Nigel emphasised the point of reflecting on what you have done otherwise a teacher could continue in the same way without not really learning.
Kiros talked about the CELTA and TKT courses which can be really beneficial in becoming a teacher or
developing a teacher's career.The vocational teacher trainer who had done the TKT course found it helped her ' to enhance her students' learning ' and the former Secondary teacher trainer said his colleague had found 'the CELTA course enriching '.
Last term at the British Council three of my students who did the TKT Preparation course,successfully obtained CELTA certification when they did the intensive course in June,in addition two of these teachers plus two teachers who did the TKT Preparation course successfully obtained jobs at schools in Turkey.
click here to listen to the programme;
http://www.radiotunisienne.tn/rtci/sounds/anglais/anglais04102013.mp3
By the way don't miss the first programme of series 3 on the 1st November!
This year's slogan is 'A Call for Teachers! '
With this in mind, the discussion focused on teachers’ employability and in particular their certification – and recognition of it and teachers’ ability to apply for jobs both in their country of origin as well as abroad.
In addition to Nigel Bellingham, British Council Tunisia Country Director and Kiros Langston, English Projects Manager in the studio there were three Tunisian teachers.
When Nigel talked about his experience of having been a teacher he said that teaching ' is a lonely experience , you can be isolated and there is a need to be part of a network to exchange ideas'.
During the programme the vocational teacher trainer mentioned that two years ago she didn't have the opportunity for training nor to meet her colleagues to share and exchange ideas but recently through the British Council's Employability program she achieved TKT Certification.
One of the Tunisian teachers had done one year's training and said she'd learnt by doing things;on the theme of 'learning by doing something' Nigel emphasised the point of reflecting on what you have done otherwise a teacher could continue in the same way without not really learning.
Kiros talked about the CELTA and TKT courses which can be really beneficial in becoming a teacher or
developing a teacher's career.The vocational teacher trainer who had done the TKT course found it helped her ' to enhance her students' learning ' and the former Secondary teacher trainer said his colleague had found 'the CELTA course enriching '.
Last term at the British Council three of my students who did the TKT Preparation course,successfully obtained CELTA certification when they did the intensive course in June,in addition two of these teachers plus two teachers who did the TKT Preparation course successfully obtained jobs at schools in Turkey.
click here to listen to the programme;
http://www.radiotunisienne.tn/rtci/sounds/anglais/anglais04102013.mp3
By the way don't miss the first programme of series 3 on the 1st November!
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