Leadership for ELT

Being an effective teacher, teacher trainer or ELT manager entails more than understanding and applying materials and techniques. To maximise your impact on your learners and colleagues, to increase your own job satisfaction and to contribute to your profession to the full it is important to reflect on and develop self leadership and the leadership of others. This course will give you practical tools and ideas for developing your leadership skills.

This course is for language teachers, ELT managers and admin staff and freelance professionals.

This 20 hour online course is run over three weeks giving you the flexibility to combine it with your working schedule or other commitments. You will have approximately 7 hours of work per week and will be required to adhere to weekly deadlines.

The tasks are varied, dynamic and practical allowing you to take them straight into your classroom. One of our experienced teacher trainers will be working closely with you to give you oral and written feedback on all the work you submit.

A typical course timetable looks like this (although there may be some variations depending on the needs of the participants):

The course leader is Duncan Foord. Duncan has more than 20 years' experience teaching, training teachers and in other leadership roles such as Director of Studies and School Director. He has an MEd in TESOL and RSA DipTEFLA and is the author of The Developing Teacher (DELTA) and the Language Teachers Survival Guide (It's).

To pass the course and receive the certificate you will have to:

• Complete 100% of the course tasks to a satisfactory standard.

The OxfordTEFL Leadership in ELT certificate will state that you have passed the course, outline the components of the course in detail and state the length of the course.

"Taking the Leadership Course has been a major step in my professional career. The techniques and skills I learned brought about real changes in the way I lead my team and manage my time. This in turn has lead to greater productivity, job satisfaction, a promotion and a pay rise! Slowly but surely, I have continued to develop professionally and become more comfortable in my new role and confident about the decisions I make. I have recommended this course not only to my colleagues in management, but also to the administrative staff and teachers."

Claire Venables

"Highly professional course leader, good contact with students. I liked the friendly/open atmosphere, I felt really encouraged to participate. Thank you Duncan."

"Course leader very well prepared, trying to elicit things rather than give a presentation; opened my eyes in some cases, especially my personality features. Course content quite useful for my work and life, it really made me realize that I can also be a leader!"

"The course started me thinking about my own career and personal goals. It enabled me to see the true value of scheduling time for personal development. As a result of the reading, activities and role-plays on the course, I also started to see my strengths and skills more clearly."

"Reading Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, also had a strong influence on my attitude to planning, work and study in general. As a direct result of attending this course, I started researching the things that had always interested me."

"At the moment I am doing a Diploma course in Personal Performance Coaching with The Coaching Academy, with the aim to become a qualified life coach in a year's time. I have also started writing, which has been a life-long ambition."

"The course on Leadership in ELT has been extremely useful for me, and much more enlightening and practical than I had imagined. The structure of the course and the tasks involved have had an impact on the way that I have worked and also given me the opportunity to implement the ideas in my current working situation. I have considered carefully the way that I work and how those around me work and how best to incorporate these so as to create interdependence and smoother-running working relationships. I also feel that I have clarified a lot of ideas and have come out of a "fog" in which I was unable to decipher or prioritise my roles and tasks. I am now capable of seeing what I have to do and have a better idea about how to do them. I have identified my strengths as a leader and been shown how to improve my weaker areas. I feel more confident when dealing with other teachers and my students and find myself using techniques and perspectives learned on the course in my current position as sumer school teacher. I find my time management to be better and my aims for each class or meeting to be much clearer than previously. I know that I am considering my teaching and my position amongst other teachers more carefully and believe my communication skills to have improved enormously."

Alex Wallis

Stephen Covey
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
1989, Franklin J Covey

Duncan Foord
The Developing Teacher
2009, DELTA Publishing

Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams Wikinomics
How mass collaboration changes everything
2008, Portfolio/Penguin

www.businessballs.com
www.stephencovey.com

If you have any questions or enquiries about this course, please don't hesitate to contact us, and a member of our team will be happy to answer you.