The document summarizes a presentation given by Kirsten Holt on teacher professional development at Macmillan. It discusses three key themes from the book "The Native Factor": the prejudice about non-native English speaking teachers, defining what a native English speaker is, and how to define a successful teacher. It then introduces the Eaquals framework for teacher training and development and gives examples of how it can be applied. Finally, it provides profiles of two teachers as examples to demonstrate how the framework could be used to develop individualized teacher professional development plans.

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We are. We can. We teach.
Kirsten Holt, Publisher of Teacher Professional Development
Macmillan Education, London, UK
Eaquals International Conference, Riga, April 2017
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Advance warning!
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1.Activate your wifi (if you haven’t already), via
the Radisson Blu Hotel – look for Eaquals
and enter the password: riga2017.
2.Go to www.menti.com
3.Standby for poll!

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TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT @MACMILLAN
We are. We can. We teach.
Kirsten Holt, Eaquals International Conference, April 2017
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We are.

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For good ideas and true innovation, you need
human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
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The Native Factor
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2017
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The Native factor: the response
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Three key themes following The Native Factor
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1.The prejudice about NNS
2.What’s a native speaker anyway?
3.How can we define a successful teacher?
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1) The prejudice about NNS
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Romesh
or
Jonathan?
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1) The prejudice about NNS (Goliath and the dancing bear)
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1) The prejudice about NNS (Prejudice, Privilege & a Call to Action)
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What’s a native speaker anyway?
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2) What’s a native speaker anyway?
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2) What’s a native speaker anyway?
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… someone being recognized as such
by the relevant speech community.
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2) What’s a native speaker anyway?
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zero
competence
native
competence
glass wall
‘average’
teacher
acceptance within the
relevant speech community
Expert English users
Proficient English users
L1 versus LX users
monolingual versus multilingual users
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A quick poll
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3) How can we define a successful teacher?
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simply being native ≠ competence in teaching
simply being qualified ≠ competence in teaching
simply being an expert ≠ competence in teaching
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When we
change the way
we look at things,
the things we
look at change.
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The Eaquals Framework for Teacher Training and Development
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raising awareness, reflecting,
developing understanding
experiencing, engaging,
experimenting, reflecting
conceptualizing, guiding,
integrating, facilitating
Phase 1: development Phase 2: engagement Phase 3: integration
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The Eaquals TD Framework close up
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Teaching and Supporting Learning
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Teaching and Supporting Learning
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Another example… from Language, communication and culture
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The focus was not
on the goal… it was
on the behaviour to
achieve that goal.
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Meet Teacher 1
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• Sarah is British teacher of ELT who passed her
CELTA in November 2011.
• She taught skills and conversation classes in
China for 2 years before moving to Thailand for
another 3 years.
• She returned to the UK last year to teach in a PLS
in London and has ambitions to do her DELTA.
• She is a confident teacher but tends to be
assigned low levels because that’s all her Director
of Studies thinks she can cope with.
• She knows she needs to improve her knowledge
of pronunciation and would like to know more
about using blended learning in her teaching.
We are. We can. We teach. | Kirsten Holt, Eaquals International Conference, April 2017
Meet Teacher 2
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• Patricia De Souza is a Brazilian teacher of ELT who
started learning English when she was 8.
• She lived in the States for a few months every year
when she was at university, and is a very confident
and able English speaker.
• She has been teaching for just over 11 years in a
secondary private school, and attends in‐service
courses on a regular basis
• She is considered a pronunciation expert in the
school and has lots of ideas of how to use YouTube
videos effectively with her classes.
• She’d like to know techniques for Skype lessons and
how bring collaborative learning into her teaching.
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The resulting teacher TPD profiles
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How you apply the framework in practice
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In phase 1 (development), you could …
• Read an article and comment, answer a questionnaire or do a quiz
• Attend a conference talk (& participate on twitter or write a blog about it)
In phase 2 (engagement), you could …
• Do a reflective observation (reporting back on experiential learning)
• Do peer observations and analyse lessons learnt
• Share a lesson plan
• Participate in an online discussion or add opinions to a social media query
• Respond to a situational activity
• Upload lesson feedback
In phase 3 (integration)
• Record a class/TT session
• Mentor a colleague and record events
• Provide guidelines or plan and deliver a presentation on best practice
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Use the Eaquals TD framework (or equivalent) in appraisals / CVs
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Teacher 1
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Visit www.menti.com and enter the code: 542713 to comment on the second set of questions.
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Kirsten Holt, Publisher,
Teacher Professional Development
M +44 (0) 758 310 5673
T +44 (0) 207 418 5765
E Kirsten.holt@macmillan.com
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