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Sharing Best Practice Staff Development Programme

Sharing Best Practice Staff Development Programme. Ms Jean Meakin Senior Lecturer, English Language Wing Defence School of Languages, Beaconsfield, UK. Scope of Presentation. The School Existing Staff Development Setting up ‘Sharing Best Practice’ Issues. Mission

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Sharing Best Practice Staff Development Programme

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  1. Sharing Best PracticeStaff Development Programme Ms Jean Meakin Senior Lecturer, English Language Wing Defence School of Languages, Beaconsfield, UK

  2. Scope of Presentation • The School • Existing Staff Development • Setting up ‘Sharing Best Practice’ • Issues

  3. Mission To deliver foreign language training to British Armed Forces personnel and English language training to foreign military personnel. The Defence School of Languages

  4. Existing Staff Development • Induction of new staff • Mentoring • Lesson observations • Appraisals • INSET days • Defence Language Training Seminar • Distance Based Learning • Defence Learning Portal (e-Learning) • BILC Seminars • Language Testing Seminar • Job-specific courses • Mandatory courses • Personal development courses

  5. A ‘learning’ organisation Adult Learning Inspection Summer 2005 Why More?

  6. 3 Senior Lecturers, from different wings The Team

  7. Initial meeting – Needs analysis Scoping exercise Team agreement on aims, format, frequency, venue, ethos Agreement on team roles Drawing up of first term’s schedule Preparation

  8. Deliver a staff development programme of Sharing Best Practice for instructors across the whole of DSL. Aims Share skills and ideas Get to know colleagues Increase uniformity Mission

  9. Workshops on different topics about teaching All instructors encouraged to attend Sessions facilitated by different staff Every 3 or 4 weeks, Weds 3 pm – 4.30 pm Lecture theatre Refreshments The Programme

  10. Format of Sessions • Welcome, refreshments • 15-minute presentation by facilitator • Group tasks • Feedback plenary and discussion

  11. CO’s address Publicity The Launch

  12. Defence Systems Approach to Training • Aims, Objectives, Lesson Planning • Learning Styles • Informal Assessment Ideas • Teaching Note Taking Skills AND Downloading Sound from the Internet First Five Sessions

  13. The Sessions • Informal • Genuine Sharing of Best Practice - Not just a presentation

  14. Sustainability and Continuity • Average of 20-30 attendees per session • Now in its fifth term • More sessions planned and facilitators still volunteering

  15. Reduce formality: Location facilitator’s role Payment for attendance? Who should attend? Certificates of attendance? When and how to end? What next? The Issues

  16. Questions?

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