Make a start with Cert IBET at ELTAS: a taster of what you can do for your ongoing professional development!
TCDI designed this Cert IBET at ELTAS workshop to start participants on the Cert IBET. To do so, we aim to work through at least three of the thirty units that make up the CertIBET programme.
Throughout the afternoon, we shall explore ideas and concepts behind what it takes to be a business English trainer. Between them, Ben and Michelle have a wealth of experience which they enthusiastically share with colleagues, while enjoying the opportunity to also learn from their TDCI participants.
The TDCI approach is very much focused on learner autonomy and self-regulated learning. Through the Cert IBET at ELTAS collaboration, the plan is to build a community of practice that can be called upon for the duration of TDCI.
Programme:
English UK designed and set up the programme and and Language Cert, who moderates the final assignment, accredits it. As such, it icludes fixed elements – time invested in working through and reflecting on the content, and writing the final assignment. Normally, the time limit is a full two years. Consequently, with this solution the expectation is an earlier completion. With that in mind, there will be a check-in with the community in November and a group coaching event to help prepare for the final assignment in March 2025.
What to expect on the day of the workshop:
- A brief overview of all the units on the Cert IBET plus talk about the end goal – the final assignment – as well as what Language Cert / English UK expects.
- Clarify how everything works with a distance learning model and how it has been tailored for this special The Distance Cert IBET at ELTAS collaboration.
- We’ll work through the first 3 units from the programme and peer review everyone’s response to the task for each.
- With the first 3 units already under your belts, we will confirm how the rest of the programme will proceed (see flyer for the milestone meet up points).
- At the end of the day we’ll be reflecting on how things went and how motivated everyone is to get their Cert IBET at ELTAS.
For this upcoming Cert IBET at ELTAS event, it will feel like a usual ELTAS Saturday teacher development workshop. So, if you’d like to come along just for that, there is no obligation to sign up for TDCI beforehand. Although you may want to by the end of the session!
Sign up by Sept. 9th and guarantee your spot on the programme or come for the taster then decide.
Bio: Michelle Hunter, Phd., is co-director and learning mentor with Ben Dobbs at Distance Cert Ltd. Together we run The Distance Cert IBET (TDCI), the self-regulated learning version of the renowned business English teaching certificate. Michelle has been a long-standing member of ELTAS and actively involved with the German ELTAs for many years. She holds an MA in Coaching in Education and recently completed a PhD in Education, with a focus on how it feels to study and teach through the medium of English. Before that, Michelle had a career teaching in-company BE courses and then university courses for over 23 years; she is a certified trainer, business and personal coach, and a women’s development trainer.
All online participants will be sent a link for their participation the day before the event. Please make a note of this.
Other German ELTA members/ all others: Please email with your request to attend. This offer applies to ELTA Germany members as well.
ELTAS Members – Please register via easyVerein. Association code/Vereinskürzel: ELTAS. If for some reason the event is not scheduled, please advise
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