Ideas into Practice – Making CPD Relevant and Accessible for Teachers by Robert Hanley
Channel: ELT Ireland
Date: 12/11/2018

Description: The best intentions of CPD can struggle to get from the page of policy to the stage of the classroom – time, logistics, finance and technology can all get in the way of harnessing the good ideas that percolate over coffee in every teachers’ room. We aimed to update our CPD offering to include new courses that have come online to populate the pre-Delta plains, and make all of our CPD outlets accessible and user friendly for teachers on every rung of the motivation ladder. This talk summarises the actions taken and outlines the next steps.

Bio: Robert is the Academic Manager at Atlantic Language Dublin and Galway. He co-ordinated the project which is the subject of this talk with an Academic team, each of whom brought a focus on complementary areas of CPD as part of their own recent professional development and which included Niall O’Donnell, Anne-Marie Hearne, Aoife Tamura, and Jim Connolly.