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The production of training packs in in-service teacher training
Roy Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in English Language Teaching at Christ Church College, Canterbury. He has been involved in TEFL for 20 yeaVs, holds a PGCE TEFL (London) and an MA in TEFL. He has taught in France, Spain, Portugal, and Malaysia. He is currently involved in teacher education on several courses—pre-service and in-service, long-term and intensive. His main interests include ELT methodology, innovation in secondary curricula in developing countries, and language and culture in
This article describes part of a programme designed to enhance teaching standards among black South African teachers of English. It focuses on the production of training packs as a way of disseminating the knowledge and skills acquired by a small group of twelve teachers on a twelve-week training course in the UK, by means of a cascade programme. In so doing, it aims to show how, while it is hoped that the product of the programme will contribute to a successful on-going teacher development scheme run by local teachers—a so-called ethnographic approach, the process of producing suitable materials is in itself a worthwhile method of conducting a short, intensive, in-service course.