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Teacher-Retraining Course Design Renewal
Elena Melekhina, Irina Kazachikhina
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2016.02.008
Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Teacher-retraining course design is considered to be a challenge not only to the course participants but to the course designers as well, especially, when the participants enrolled turn out to have dramatically different professional background and conditions. This article supports the idea that changes to the course design should be made straightaway in response to the trainees’ specific needs. The context for rural school teacher retraining at Novosibirsk State Technical University in Russia illustrates reasons for making immediate changes necessary as the course progressed, and reaction to them. The article discusses a model for a teacher retraining course in which EFL improvement is the core element.
teacher retraining program, rural teachers, shortage of EFL teachers, non-cohesive professional background, changers to course design
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