Dear Trainers,...

TTD will hold the 2009 trainers gathering. A sneak peek of the program:
-The new TEFL Feedbacks
-FAQ on TEFL Training
-Inductive Teaching

The trademark of trainers gathering has been: Fun, Unique and Fruitful.
This edition's theme will be: GREEN LIVING.
Friday May 29, 2009 at LBPP-LIA Pramuka
Catch you later :).

Dear Trainers,...

Letting trainees discover learning points should be encouraged in a training room. One obvious practical benefit is stronger knowledge retention.
Here is a sample of an inductive way to present aspects related to oral communication.

Give the participants two sets of dialog showing different interlocutors, setting, language choice but similar topic. Ask them to memorize the lines and then perform them in front of the class. After that, ask questions leading to aspects involved in oral communication, e.g:

1. Who are in the dialog?
2. What are their relationship?
3. How do you know?
4. Would you use the same language with different interlocutors?
5. What else makes you would change the language? Is it the setting?
6. Tell me what you think will happen to the dialog if they were conducted via telephone?
7. What can you conclude from the above the questions?

Happy trying :)

AJ

Dear Trainers,...

In the spirit of writing journal, I tried out sharing a journal that I wrote to the training participants in Fatmawati after they shared theirs. It turned out that the result of the journals from both sides match. I guess the participants and I see eye to eye about the training. Have you ever tried that? Try it. :)

AJ

Dear trainers,...

Inductive teachings is kinda cool, right? I mean when compared to deductive ones. Hereby I invite you to share some of your best practices in training room to boost other trainers to try and modify or even to come up with their own.

Here's one:
Instead of telling the participants the characteristics of spoken English, I ask them to quickly memorize and then act out two dialogs with different settings, characters, means of communication, purpose and the choice of language. After that, I ask them to find all the differences. All that comes after that is my part to confirm their answers. What do you think?