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Teacher-training courses attended with a grant from - Formations suivies grâce à une bourse de "L'Agence francophone pour l'éducation et la formation tout au long de la vie"

Neuro Linguistic Programming for Teachers, Pilgrims - Canterbury - 31/07/2011-13/08/2011 (Tutor: Mike Shreeve)

• Picture biographies (fichier doc file)
• The Language System Diagnostic Instrument (LSDI)
• The MBTI scoring chart and 16 types
• 16 personality types
• Presuppositions of NLP

• Ten Top NLP Techniques for Teachers (Richard Churches and Roger Terry - see below)
• Selected reading: Handing over: NLP-based activities for language learning, Jane Revell and Susan Norman; In your Hands, NLP in ELT, Jane Revell and Susan Norman; NLP for teachers, How to Be a Highly Effective Teacher, Richard Churches and Roger Terry.
• Modifying Motivation-Encouraging Difficult Learners (Diane Walter)
• Some NLP activities (adapted from Unlocking Self-expression through NLP, by Judith Baker and Mario Rinvolucri, Delta Publishing) I am going to use in my classrooms

Contemporary English, Homerton College, Bell International, Cambridge, 27/08/2008-09/08/2008 (Tutors: Lis Harrison & Lindsay Warwick)

• New modern vocabulary, phrases and expressions (fichier rtf file)
• Rapport final/Final report (fichier rtf file)
• Some of the texts we read - quelques textes lus et discutés (fichier doc file): Grazing, A little bit of everything / Etiquette for the generation that never switches off / Lucy, 13, publishes a dictionary for parents / I’m sorry, this is not an apology... / I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language / The school that slung out slang / An unhealthy obsession with celebrity culture is damaging the academic success of British students / What annoys you most? The environmental impact of SUVs or the class of people that drive them?
• Some of the videos we watched and analysed - quelques videos analysées: Tony Blair can't be "bovvered"; Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen nightmares. (with thanks to Helene Payreder)

Creative methodology for the classroom - Pilgrims - Canterbury - 22/08/2004-04/09/2004 (Tutor: Chaz Pugliese)

• Multiple intelligences
• An explanation of learning styles and multiple intelligences

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