During this week, participants will
Invited guest speaker: Valerie Jakar, Ph.D.
Topic: Mentoring and being mentored as teachers of English: NNEST’s effective roles and practices
In this session, the speaker, a specialist in professional development for teachers of ESOL, will present some basic tenets of what it means to be a mentor in the English teaching field. With the assistance of participants’ contributions, she will discuss the problems and the merits of NNEST’s roles in the mentoring process – as mentors and as mentees.
Readings
The distinctive characteristics of foreign language teachers
Simon Borg University of Leeds, UK in Language Teaching Research 10,1 (2006); pp. 3–31
http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/assets/files/staff/papers/LTR-10-1.pdf
Borg,_The_Distinctive_Characteristics_of_Foreign_Language_Teachers.pdf
Research on Mentoring Language
Teachers: Its Role in Language Education
Yuly Asención Delaney
Northern Arizona University in Foreign Language Annals, Summer 2012
Research_on_Language_Teacher_mentoring,.pdf
Mentoring as a pathway to leadership: a focus on nonnative English-speaking professionals.
Kamhi-Stein, L. and De Oliveira, L. (2008).In Coombe, C. et al (Eds.), Leadership in English language teaching and learning. The University of Michigan Press.
Live chat: Jan 28th (Israel) or 7.00 p.m. GMT
Link to the recording of the live chat https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2014-01-28.1131.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr&sid=75
Time conversion links:
1. http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
2. http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=6,5,0,281184&h=0&date=2014-1-28&sln=19-20.5