Part 5: Round Table Discussion on Classroom Management: The Challenges Teachers Face Today
Panel members include: George Pickering (Chair); Burcu Akyol (via Skype) Bethany Cagnol; Duncan Foord; Linda Vignac
Speaker Bios:
Burcu Akyol graduated from Hacettepe University, ELT Department in 2000. She holds a Master's degree in Educational Management. Her main areas of interest are teacher training and learning technologies. Currently, she works at Istek Schools as Foreign Languages Department, Education Coordinator.
Bethany Cagnol (TESOL France) has an MA in Teaching Second and Foreign Languages, founded her own freelance teaching business, International Customer and is the President of TESOL France. Thanks to the contacts she's made through the association she has spoken at IATEFL, IATEFL BESIG and IATEFL Poland Conferences. She's currently working on several materials design projects. Her professional interests include Business English, Testing and Assessment, Teacher Development, English for Specific Purposes, and English as an International Language (ELF).
Duncan Foord has been in ELT since 1984. He started his ELT life as a language assistant in a secondary school in Lyon, France. He has also worked in London, Oviedo, Prague and Barcelona. He's taught English to all sorts of people (and a bit of German once), trained teachers on Trinity CertTESOL and Dip TESOL courses and worked as a Director of Studies and school manager. Foord is co-founder of OxfordTEFL, a teacher training and language training school with centres in Prague and Barcelona so he has had quite a bit of involvement with both the academic and business sides of ELT. He also works for Trinity College London, moderating CertTESOL courses. He has completed Cert, Dip and MEdTESOL qualifications. The Developing Teacher (Delta Publishing), 2009 winner of The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award, is Foord's second book. The first is the Language Teacher's Survival Handbook, co-authored with Lindsay Clandfield and published by Its Magazines. Foord has lived in Barcelona for the last 18 years.
George Pickering is an educational coach, trainer and consultant. He has delivered talks and workshops in over 50 different countries for IATEFL, the British Council and other organisations. George is the lead tutor on the English UK Diploma in Management and a tutor on the International Diploma in Language Teaching Management. He is an inspector of language schools for the British Council in the UK (Accreditation UK). He is the director of the new Bell Teacher Campus at Homerton College, Cambridge. George was the treasurer of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) for six years and is the co-ordinator of the IATEFL Leadership & Management Special Interest Group (LAMSIG).
Linda Vignac (Langues et Entreprises) is a Franco-American teacher trainer and Program Designer. Linda began her career as an ESL Teacher/Trainer at Langues et Entreprises, one of Paris' leading corporate language firms, where she created and facilitated programs for adult professionals from a wide range of sectors: banking & finance, automobile, pharmaceutical, aerospace, insurance, hotel & tourism, etc. Still at Langues et Entreprises, she is now Program Designer & Pedagogical Director. Her responsibilities include ongoing training and mentoring of trainers representing over 30 nationalities. She creates and facilitates workshops and seminars on intercultural communication, management, team-building and pedagogy throughout Europe in English and French
Filmed by Elaine Henry
Edited by Bethany Cagnol
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