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Managing Conflict in Language Teaching Organisations
Presented By Andy Hockley
Session Details
This interactive workshop will look into some of the issues surrounding
conflicts. Participants will be invited to discuss the issues and share their
experiences. This workshop references the CUP book "From Teacher to
Manager" and will include:
- Advantages (and
disadvantages) of conflict - Motivations, needs, and
conflict styles - The manager as arbitrator
- The manager as participant
- Dealing with grievances
About Andy Hockley
Andy is a freelance language teaching management trainer and consultant living in deepest Transylvania. He is co-author of "From Teacher to Manager: Managing Language Teaching Organizations" (CUP, 2008). Andy was also involved in developing the curriculum of the International Diploma in Language Teaching Management (IDLTM), and regularly trains on that course. He is a member of the IATEFL ELT Management SIG committee.
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Thanks Diana. The workshop
Thanks Diana. The workshop went very well, I felt (great attendance too). I don't think it was videoed unfortunately (I'm not sure what i needed to do to have it available on video). 40 minutes is too short for a workshop though!
It's a pity you can't read
It's a pity you can't read the postings on the "Moderators Only" forum, Andy, because we have just been discussing how much the presenters at Cardiff catered for the online community by joining in the discussions on the relevant SIA forum before the conference, uploading their materials in time and replying to /giving feedback afterwards. The conclusion the OMs and the Team came to was that this was desirable but wholly voluntary and dependant on the presenter's resources and priorities.
But I must say YOU did your bit here! On behalf of the ELT-M forum, thanks again!
Pity about the videoing, but there was too much going on simultaneously to catch everything, I guess.
Diana
Diana
Hi Andy, I bet I'm the first
Hi Andy,
I bet I'm the first to "comment" on your session, which if I have got the time warp right, will have just finished. Unfortunately there hasn't been a video of it (yet?) and I don't know whether the "roving reporters" took up my suggestion/request of this morning to go to it, so the only person who I know for sure was there is YOU !
Thus I am asking you to make a start with this thread and tell us how your workshop went and what sort of contributions your participants made. Then I hope some of the latter will post , too, unless they are too busy enjoying attending the conference and socialising !! (a small attack of sour grapes, not to worry).
Looking forward to your feedback!
Diana
Roving Reporter Natalia came
Roving Reporter Natalia came up trumps and went to this session for us. Great! Please look at the link:
http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2009/sessionreport/14/andy-hockley-hox-and-eris-srl-managing-conflict-language-teaching-organizations
I am really looking forward to the discussion on Conflict Management being continued after the conference (and in the case of Andy, when he is online again), when people will have time to "digest" all they have seen, heard and read.
Diana