I am looking forwardto launching my new online course ‘Teaching Artistry for Teachers and Educators’ which starts on Monday 19th February 2024. If you haven’t registered, then you need to do this asap so as not to miss this exciting opportunity.
The course is aimed at anyone who is involved in training, development and educating others. We explore facilitation skills that involve creating a safe space for collaboration where people are interacting and discussing ideas to promote change. It is a three week asynchronous online course that takes about 3 hours a week of study.
The course explores the use of participatory approaches to professional development such as team building, gaining participants’ trust, maximizing engagement and fostering collaboration and personal disclosure and simultaneously develops a range of many other performative skills.
Typically, Teacher Education is perceived as a scientific discipline prioritising subject knowledge and procedural techniques. In the course I suggest teaching needs to be conceived more as a performative art requiring practitioners to develop skills of a performer. Undoubtedly there are similarities between teaching and performance, not least the fact that teaching involves dealing with human beings and requires the physical presence of teachers and learners and the physical, mental and emotional engagement between them. The course considers, how teachers can use drama in their professional lives and what additional facilitation skills do they need to utilize drama techniques in the classroom effectively.
PRESENTER: Tom Godfrey
Tom has always had a passion for the theatre having directed and acted in many shows while working as an EFL teacher and teacher trainer around the world. These two interests recently aligned as he completed an MA in Applied Theatre at Exeter University focusing on how Applied Theatre can inform Teacher Education. Tom is the Director of International Training Institute (ITI) which is a centre for teacher training and development and an ELT consultancy. He completed an MA TEFL at Reading and Ed.D at Exeter University, UK. He also delivers workshops on using Drama in ELT and Forum Theatre for Teacher Development. He is founder of Speech Bubbles Theatre Group which performs to raise money for charities that support education and children in Turkey.
Here are some videos from face to face workshops to give you an idea of the content
Video link: https://youtu.be/H8 ouEilhE
Tom Godfrey 