Which training courses would you like to have access to as a teacher? Why? Which is, in your opinion, the best way to share good practice amongst teaching professionals? Why?

Which training courses would you like to have access to as a teacher? Why? Which is, in your opinion, the best way to share good practice amongst teaching professionals? Why?

From my point of view, in schools, there is little training, is also training usually it isn’t very interesting for the teachers, and in my opinion isn’t very useful for day to day work.  During the years that I have worked in schools, I had to make a number of hours of mandatory training for all teachers, and have always been little rewarding courses for me and most of my peers, in addition they are repetitive and general topics courses type of occupational hazards, company organization, organization of documentation...

In addition, the companies that offer these courses are companies to have general courses that can be offered to a large group of companies without changing the content or adapt the content for each company, so they are very few specific courses for teachers and schools. The comments and the attitude of the teaching staff of the hours of training that I've been as a teacher, always used to get, "to see what roll us release that", "what a nap I will take," "this course did it two years ago and it was very boring," “Bad way  to spend the time and money of the Centre”, “with the tests that I have to correct”...

I think that in schools, should to ask what kind of courses are you interested in teachers and in what field, and try to adjust to their needs, because they are going to be in the course and they are going to take tools for they jobs.

On the one hand, I think that training should be focused to train and to retrain teachers, in the methodology, evaluation, teaching techniques, see working methods of other schools in other countries...

Since these courses to teachers do not always follow the same techniques and methodologies, to see new things that are being implemented in our country and outside and to can nurture it to make changes to their teaching methods.

On the other hand, I think it is very important to make courses to train teachers in diseases, syndromes, and learning disorders that may arise throughout the school students life, for they know what kind of students may have, to know how to be the  students that they can have with different pathologies and to learn to work with them.

Since many teachers do not form in this aspect and it can give them fear to work with these students, they may not be good trainers for these children by don’t know them and that these students may come to have a school failure for they aren’t well looked after.

Finally, I think it would be important to make health and motivation courses for teachers, because many teachers over time they will lose the desire and motivation, and this affects their way teaching in class, as well as courses in which foster the relationship with partners, since continuously in schools they come and go teachers and it is difficult to make relationships with new people arrive, since groups of older teachers tend to close and the relationship between them is not suitable or it is not the best for conducting assessments, meetings of students... It’s hard to agree in some hostile environments.

As anecdote, on one occasion, I gave a training course for teachers to relate with to the health, as I am a speech therapist, we teach vocal techniques to the teachers, to prevent the nodules, prevent polyps and ultimately to care for the voice, that it’s your working tool. We teach them to scream, sing, and use their voice in all areas. Teachers loved that school hired this type of courses, and that was of interest to everybody and they were delighted. A good teacher training guarantees some college a good education for their students.

      

Webs:

Relax: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mkPtoej6AU

Teacher's courses:

http://www.aulaplaneta.com/2014/08/26/recursos-tic/cinco-videos-sobre-docencia-para-que-empieces-el-curso-motivado/
https://mupai.wordpress.com/formacion/formacion-de-profesorado/
http://www.escolascatolicas.es/documentos/LIDERAZGO%20EDUCATIVO.pdf
                             

Voice Therapy:  

http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/NodulesPolyps/ 
http://www.lionsvoiceclinic.umn.edu/page3c.htm