Pilgrims Teacher Training Summer Programme 2007

Building Positive Group Dynamics 1 Week course

Starting: 8 July

Course Location University of Kent at Canterbury

Course Tuition Fee €630 Euro

Accommodation

Who is this course for?

• Native and non-native teachers of English and other subjects.

• Teacher Trainers.

• Mentors, supervisors and managers

• All those who work with groups

Course Summary

How often are we challenged in our teaching, facilitation, or leadership not because we don’t know our field of expertise, but because we are unsure of what makes groups work and how to bring about that precious quality: real work? Much of teaching and facilitation lies in the realm of the relational. Though little is written on this, it can be learnt and understood.

Drawing on insights from humanistic psychology and philosophy, this course will give names to what we intuitively know and handles to doors on areas of knowledge we have not yet opened. We shall explore the interpersonal skill of how we meet the individual’s real needs and our own. Insights gained give a practical underpinning to our objectives, planning and evaluating. Participants will have the opportunity to work with their own realities.

What are the key course contents?

Topics include:

• Managing conflict and orchestrating difference

• Empowerment: contractual groupwork

• The skills of confrontation

• Understanding and changing interaction patterns : The Parent, Adult and Child within

• The recognition and feedback cycle

• How quintessential needs are met through Time Structuring

• Developing your individual style of group leadership

Is this the right course for me?

• Yes - if you have ever sensed ‘subterranean forces’ underpinning or undermining groupwork and longed to know more

• Yes - if you want to use groupwork more effectively

• Yes - if you struggle to decide when and how to intervene in a group.

• Yes - if ‘motivation’ and ‘uncooperative students’ are topics for you

• Yes - if you want to be more insightful in your design and assessment of groupwork activities

• Yes - if you want to create a group that supports learning for all

• Yes - if you have a level of English between upper-intermediate and native

If this is not the right course for you, please consider one of the following:

• NLP for Teachers – If you are interested in exploring Neuro-Linguistic Programming, “the study of excellence,” and learning styles in more depth.

• Transactional Analysis for Teachers – For a course specifically aimed at those who want to apply this therapeutic approach to their work.

Funding

• Participants may apply for an EU grant to fund tuition, travel, accommodation and subsistence. Applications for grants must be submitted by 30 March 2007.

• You need to reserve your place before applying for your grant. You do not pay anything if you are not awarded a grant. On registration we will send you more information about funding.

What do I do next?

• Register online today. We will then confirm your place and send you a grant application pack with guidance on how to apply.

• If you have any questions please contact us.

Your Pilgrims Training Day -

Only Pilgrims offers such a full day of Professional and free Personal Development activities:

09.00-10.30 Core Training Course

10.30-11.00 Courtyard coffee break

11.00-12.30 Core Training Course

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.30 Core Training Course

15.30-16.00 Courtyard coffee break

16.00-17.30 Evening workshop 1

20.00-21.30 Evening workshop 2

As well as your core training course there are many free workshops and activities to choose from such as Storytelling, NLP, British Culture, Salsa Dancing, Drama Techniques, Multiple Intelligences, T'ai Chi, Teaching Pronunciation and more… all included in your course fee!