By Tim Munday | Project Leader
Each year we hold the Essential Teachers conference at Salem. This is a fixture in the calendar for many English teachers in the city: a chance to be inspired, to learn some new skills or perspectives relevant to the classroom, and to network with others outside the environs of their own English school or centre.
Salem's focus is not only on ensuring a vibrant successful conference each year, but also playing a part in the wider development of English teaching in the city and the surrounding area. As part of that goal, and alongside promoting the conference, this year Salem staff ran five different events during the months before the conference for teachers working in different specific organisations. These were free training events to give a taster for how to share knowledge, and promote cooperation and mutual learning. Three were held in the city, and two in villages outside of the city, where resources tend to be scarce and investment in raising standards is generally serverly lacking.
One of these events was in February in the village of Aksukent, near Shymkent. A teacher there, Mokhidil, has started her own educational centre in the village to teach English, and invited Salem to hold one of the training events at her centre. Afterwards, she expressed her appreciation about how Salem's input brought greater value and professional depth to all those who attended. "You demonstrated modern and practical methods of working with vocabulary, inspired colleagues, and shared valuable tools that are already being used in our practice," she said.
As a result, Mokhidil organised a group to attend Salem's Essential Teachers conference. "These two days were truly intense, useful and motivating for us. Everything was organized at a high level - from the content to the details," she said. "We thank the entire Salem team for their openness, warm atmosphere and desire for joint development. We hope to continue our cooperation and implement new joint initiatives!" She is now planning to run a similar event, on a smaller scale, for others in her village.
The dynamic of 'getting it and then passing it on' is at work, and we're excited to not only be training teachers, but training those who are starting to themselves train teachers!
By Tim Munday | Project Leader
By Tim Munday | Project Leader
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