Dear all With so many new members joining the list, I thought I should try (again) to prompt some discussion. Of course, whether it takes off depends on...
http://camis.stanford.edu/people/pratt/smi/advice.html Graduate School Survival Guide This guide provides concise suggestions for: Getting the most out of the...
Dear all Just picking up on Jason's message, the paradox of perhaps needing to train people to 'develop' / 'become developers' is an interesting one. Does it ...
Dear all I've just picked out a few items that caught my eye from the list Kevin forwarded, with one or two comments attached: Meet regularly - this links to...
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Richard Trewby
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Oct 8, 2004 4:25 pm
Dear All As I look back on my experience in the classroom and as a trainer of teachers, I see an important difference between teacher development and ...
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Adrian Tennant
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Oct 9, 2004 4:51 pm
Hi all, I'm not quite sure what all the debate and fuss is regarding training vs development. You only need to look in a dictionary to see a clear difference. ...
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Alan Pulverness
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Oct 10, 2004 10:46 am
Hi, everyone - Substitute 'development' for 'education' in the following and you have a pretty good statement of the essential differences - To be prepared...
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Adrian Tennant
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Oct 10, 2004 7:43 pm
I really liked the quote that Alan posted but would like to focus on the last thing he wrote:- ... position where you are expected somehow to ... tutor is...
Dear All For me, the difference is clear, Adrian's dictionary definitions summed it up. development is something that you do to yourself, or just happens in...
I think I agree with Richard's comment that development takes place within the teacher and in her/his class. Hopefully triggerred with some input from...
Dear all If I've understood it right, Adrian's dictionary definition and Colin's follow-up suggest that agency - who 'does' TD - is a key concept i.e. ...
Dear all (again) Previous messages have highlighted agency and timespan in a working definition of TD, but Richard adds another element - location (the ...
Howdy all, Ok. Here's my two penn'orth - as much from the need to add something, or spend the next years reading without contributing as from a feeling of ...
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Adrian Tennant
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Oct 11, 2004 2:25 pm
Good training should nurture development Adrian ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Thanks to all for posting on this, it's been helpful and enlightening to see how different people grapple with (or slide through) these terms. Personally, I...
I'm enjoying the discussion of the training/development dichotomy and find that it keeps popping up in my mind at unexpected moments, to the extent that when I...
Like Simon, I'd thought of the Venn diagram as a way of looking at the differences and cross-over between training and devlopment. But I see the training...
Dear all You'll notice I've changed the title in the subject box, hopefully reflecting the emphasis that seems (to me at least) to be coming through in recent...
Hi again, Just picking up from the last message about the Venn diagram image... ...however, Adrian's 'Good training should nurture development' would seem to...
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Adrian Tennant
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Oct 12, 2004 10:10 am
... whether it's possible) So does Graham need training to develop these skills? Adrian ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Graham wrote: 'Luckily for you all, I have no idea how to draw diagrams in emails or whether it's possible' Adrain wrote: 'So does Graham need training to...
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WHITECROSS, Cristina
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Oct 12, 2004 10:48 am
Dear all, Very interesting exchanges, many thanks. I was reminded of Widdowson and Candlin's introduction to the series entitled Language Teaching: A Scheme...
Dear all Based on (or twisting?) Cristina's message, would it be unfair to say that development has a more broader or critical ring to it than training? I only...
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Magdalena Kubanyiova
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Oct 13, 2004 9:32 am
Dear All I think we now all know what training and development are (not that we didn't before) and that they are no dichotomies at all. We also know that we...
Dear all I kind of agree with Maggie - the whole disussion wasn't really meant to set up a dichotomy but just knock around a few terms, and, to be honest,...
Yeah I guess it's time to move on... I'd like to give an example to the question How do my own language learning experiences affect my development as a...
This is a funner topic. I began taking Korean Language class again and the bigest thing that stands out is that the teacher is really trying to teach us by...
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M. Nilce Pontes
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Oct 14, 2004 2:42 pm
Dear fellow teachers, I´ve just joined the group. I am Maria Nilce Martinelli Pontes, and am interested in teacher development issues. Best wishes, M Nilce ...
