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Description
A practical workshop where you will be invited to develop a greater understanding of your professional goals, needs, interests and learning preferences in order to identify specific areas (e.g. skills, knowledge, attributes) for professional development. Situated within an approach to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which encompasses and addresses three distinct but related audiences of school leaders, teacher educators and teachers, we shall use the British Council’s recently revised Continuing Professional Development Framework for Teachers as a starting point (approx. 15 minutes). You will then be encouraged to develop a greater awareness of your professional identity as a teacher and guided to developing short-, medium-, and long-term career goals in order to plan your professional development. You will also be introduced to developmental pathways available to plan your own professional development pathway, including a wide range of resources and courses on the British Council’s TeachingEnglish website.
Biography
Davide Guarini Gilmartin is the British Council Senior Academic Manager, English and School Education in Indonesia and Viet Nam. He is a teacher educator with over 25 years’ experience. He has been living in Hanoi, Vietnam since 1999 and has worked with British Council since 2003. He holds a BA (Honours) in Town & Country Planning, a Trinity TESOL Certificate and a Cambridge DELTA Diploma. He has extensive experience of teacher development projects across East Asia, having designed and delivered numerous courses and workshops for British Council projects (e.g. Access English, Active Citizens, Academic Teaching Excellence (ATE), Connecting Classrooms, English for Teaching, ERIC, Primary Innovations, Teaching for Success, Thailand Regional English Training Centre (RETC), VTTN) in China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Peru, Thailand, and Vietnam. He also has experience as an IELTS examiner and a Cambridge ESOL Oral Examiner Team Leader. Prior to entering the education sector, he spent eight years working in the UK local government sector as an urban and policy planner.
