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BALEAP PIM: From EAP Teacher to EAP Educator

12th November 2022 @ 9:30am - 4:30pm

£20.00 – £150.00

This PIM focused on the transition from EAP Teacher to EAP Teacher Educator. Although there is support available to those transitioning into EAP from more general English teaching, very little support is available to those EAP practitioners working with other teachers. Working with other teachers may involve observing other teachers on a summer school, preparing and delivering a series of workshops as part of a teacher education programme or mentoring and supporting teachers new to EAP.

This PIM provided a space to share ideas and best practice including approaches and methods to Teacher Education. This PIM was of interest to Senior Teachers, DOSs, Teacher Trainers and Educators and indeed anyone who works with or is planning to work with other teachers.

Delivery

The event was delivered in-person with some plenaries and workshops live-streamed.

Plenary Speakers

Lindsay Knox (Head of Teacher Development & Scholarship in Languages, Centre for Open Learning, University of
Edinburgh) delivered a lecture entitled Becoming an EAP teacher educator in a global landscape of EAP practices.

In the wider field of English language education, the route from teacher to teacher educator is a well-established one. With globally recognised qualifications such as those offered by Cambridge and Trinity, and with relevant experience, becoming a teacher educator has generally been seen as an achievable career goal. However, for EAP practitioners who have ambitions to enter teacher education, or who suddenly find themselves in this role, the route is perhaps less obviously signposted.

Initiatives such as the individual BALEAP accreditation, which allows fellows and senior fellows to pursue recognition as a TEAP mentor or mentor/assessor respectively, have gone some way to addressing this gap. The establishment of the Teacher Education in EAP SIG has also provided a forum for those involved in the professional development of EAP colleagues to meet and share practice. However, as the theme of this PIM would suggest, the principles and practices of EAP teacher education are arguably not as widely discussed or documented as they could be.

This provides the starting point for this talk, beginning with the question of whether there is a need for a more distinct, and enhanced pathway to support the development of those who wish to make the move into teacher education, before moving on to ask what such a pathway may look like. With a growing awareness of the diverse range of contexts for EAP around the globe, and with inclusivity as a core BALEAP value, establishing a teacher educator pathway which recognises the multiple settings of EAP practice is an important consideration.

In this talk, I will explore these issues further and, through a series of questions, encourage the audience to continue their own conversation about a possible future for EAP teacher education, throughout the day and beyond.

 

Helen Donaghue (Senior Lecturer Learning Enhancement and Academic Development at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) and Marion Heron (Associate Professor in Educational Linguistics at University of Surrey) delivered a lecture on Post Observation Feedback Literacy.

One of the most common and potentially useful ways of enhancing teachers’ practice (and therefore students’ learning) is observation and feedback. Despite the importance and frequency of observations in EAP teacher education, scant attention, if any, is paid to the post observation feedback stage where teachers, often new to EAP, receive feedback on their teaching. How (or if) teachers then enact this feedback in their teaching is also under-researched. Drawing on Carless and Winstone’s (2020) framework of feedback literacy, this presentation argues for adopting an educator (i.e. observer) and teacher (i.e. observed) feedback literacies perspective on assessed and formative post observation feedback. Drawing on examples from research data, we exemplify how feedback literacy can influence what feedback is more likely to be enacted by the participant. We also show how the three dimensions of feedback literacy – design, relational and pragmatic –  are highly applicable to different stages of the observation process and how we might leverage this model to better support EAP teachers.

 

Event Programme

There was good range of papers from teachers, teacher trainers, teacher educators, lecturers and tutors who have experience of or an interest in working with or supporting EAP teachers.

Areas of relevance include, but are by no means limited to:

  • Becoming an EAP teacher trainer/educator
  • Transitioning from General English teacher trainer to EAP educator
  • Observation and feedback
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Planning and delivering workshops
  • Designing teacher education programmes
  • Formative and summative assessment of teachers
  • Creating online content for teachers
  • Current practice and future directions

The Programme can be accessed by following this link FINAL DRAFT PIM Schedule 2022 [PDF Document].

Talks – Resources and Recordings

The following talks were pre-recorded and made available via the BALEAP YouTube channel prior to the event.

  • The Need to Create a Competency Framework for Teachers of EAP for Japanese Universities by Takeshi Okada (Tohoku University, Japan) [SLIDES] Please use this document if you wish to ask questions of Takeshi. Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • Teachers’ Forums: Using group reflection and dialogue for EAP Teacher Development by Jeni Driscoll, Anna Fox, Wil Hardman and Rob Playfair (University of Liverpool and Birkbeck University) [updated SLIDES] Please use this document if you wish to ask questions of the presenters. Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • Co-constructed Identity: Reflections on how EAP Learning Materials can enhance the transition and development of the EAP student and the EAP Practitioner by Sharon Mcilroy and Daniel Devane (International Study and Language Institute Reading University) [SLIDES] Please use this document if you wish to ask questions of the presenters. Check the embedded playlist for the recording.

 

The majority of the talks were given face-to-face. The following presenters agreed to share slides and some of them agreed to share the recording, in which case look at the playlist embedded below.

  • An ecological approach to teacher development by Maxine Gillway and Lisa Hanson (University of Bristol) [SLIDES] Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • EAP Classroom Practice: Through the looking glass by Andy Barker (University of Lincoln) [SLIDES] Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • EAP educators’ perceptions of the requisite teaching qualifications in  EMI context by Dr Mehmet Altay & Dr Dogan Yuksel (Kocaeli University, Turkey) [SLIDES] Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • (Ethical) considerations when designing an MA TEAP by Bee Bond and Alex Ding (University of Leeds) [SLIDES] Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • Flattening the Hierarchy: Using metaplanning as a collaborative approach to designing a summer presessional CPD programme by Dr Chris Martin (University of Birmingham-Birmingham International Academy) [SLIDES] Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • Language assessment literacy between colleagues by Andrew Fleck [SLIDES] Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • Using reconstruction and modelling tasks to teach critical writing skills by Katarzyna Truszkowska. Check the embedded playlist for the recording.
  • Observation: ‘ We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it! (Rosen 1989:2) by Annette Margolis (Birmingham International Academy). Check the embedded playlist for the recording.

Poster presentations:

Hybrid in EAP: a personal journey to heaven…or hell? Pete Sharma (University of Warwick)

For the record: OneNote Staff Notebook, your one-stop-shop for course coordination needs Susan Caie and Cristiana Rodrigues (University of Aberdeen and Coventry University London)

Event Website

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/eltc/baleap-pim

 

Contact

For further information about the event, please contact BALEAP.PIM@sheffield.ac.uk

Details

Date:
12th November 2022
Time:
9:30am - 4:30pm
Cost:
£20.00 – £150.00
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