Leadership for ELT course


Working with core leadership skills, this course applies those skills in contexts related to the work of a teacher, director of studies, course co-ordinator, administrator or school manager. You will become more aware of your role in helping yourself and your school to develop and how to approach key ELT management challenges such as leading a team of teachers, communicating with clients and understanding the business context you work in.
This course is for language teachers, ELT managers and admin staff and freelance professionals.

Duration	Fees	Starting dates 2010	Apply now
3-day intensive course in Barcelona From Thursday to Saturday inclusive.	. € 400 .	10th May Aug 30th Nov 22nd	Application form on-line

Aims of the course, course content
Why a Leadership for ELT Course?
How to apply, assessment and certification
The trainer
Course Timetable, quotes on Leadership, Recommended reading

Aims

You will develop your understanding of what leadership is and your own leadership style. Through role play and simulation activities you will develop your communication skills. Through case studies of typical challenges for teachers you will explore different approaches to problem solving.

Course content

• Leadership and management - What is the difference?



• What kind of Leader are you - Leadership styles and thinking styles



• Managing your time effectively



• Communicating - listening and speaking to colleagues, bosses, staff and students



• Developing - making changes and responding to change

Why a Leadership for ELT Course?

Being an effective, better still, a 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.

How to apply

Please complete the On-line Application Form

Assessment and certification

You will receive a Certificate indicating that you have completed the three-day course and participated in the tasks assigned during the course. The certificate will describe the areas covered.

The Trainer

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) .

Course Testimonials

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!

I learned a great deal from this course. Firstly, I had never considered myself a leader before, but the course showed me that everything we do provides an example to others - the way we communicate with our colleagues/family/friends, the way we approach and solve problems. Secondly, the course revolutionized the way I organize my time. I learned how to prioritize, delegate and manage my time more effectively. I still employ the Four Quadrant Model now, even though I work for myself!
The course also 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. "

Course Timetable

The course runs from Thursday to Saturday from 10 am. to 6 pm. with breaks for coffee and lunch.

Some quotes on Leadership

"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning." --Warren G. Bennis

"A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do." --Anthony T. Dadovano

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." --Lao Tzu

A fun quiz about Leadership

If you would like to find out your leadership style try this free quiz www.similarminds.com

Recommended Reading

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