ELT Teacher Education Materials: Purposes, Possibilities and Practices explores appropriate goals and models for English Language Teaching (ELT) teacher education materials and establishes principles for their design. It offers an AI-app-supported developmental guide to designing effective, context-appropriate teacher-training materials that reference relevant theoretical frameworks. Additionally, it provides sample materials that clearly illustrate each chapter’s theoretical perspective, together with discussion questions relating to the materials. Readers will develop their own skills in writing materials for teacher education through customised writing tasks that are closely connected to the chapter’s theory and sample materials and can obtain help in completing these tasks via the AI ‘critical friend’ links. A more substantial writing task appears at the end of the book. An appendix provides answer keys, while a second appendix gives general guidance on writing materials for teachers.
This is a key resource for academics and researchers in teacher education, and also ELT teacher educators in different kinds of institutions around the world who need to know about materials for teacher education. The book will also be beneficial for students in ELT/TESOL, particularly those on courses that include components related to teacher training or materials writing.
The AI experience accompanying this book runs on Noticing—a platform for AI-facilitated professional learning, built around research-informed mentoring protocols. Its AI voice, Noa, uses a novel pre-response middleware that cumulates the evolving dialogue to direct AI's attention without determining its response—eliciting explicit reasoning, revealing blind spots and sustaining productive struggle. Used in teacher education programmes across Europe, Asia and Australasia for lesson planning, reflection and mentoring.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction 1. Issues in teacher education materials 2. The organisation of this book and how to use it Part 2 Materials based on training goals 3. Helping teachers meet their learners’ needs within a communicative approach 4. Providing teachers with the skills to interact socially and negotiate meaning in English in their classrooms 5. Providing teachers with the skills and opportunities to interact socially and negotiate meaning in English in wider professional communities 6. Encouraging teachers to engage in critical thinking Part 3 Materials derived from models of teacher education 7. Traditional craft model of teacher education 8. Applied science model of teacher education 9. Reflective practice model of teacher education 10. Participation in a professional community model of teacher education Appendices
About the Author :
Briony Beaven is a language teaching consultant, teacher educator and materials writer. Her professional roles have included a post as the Director of Studies in a large adult education institute, and working as a Cambridge Teaching Awards CELTA and DELTA tutor, assessor and moderator. Briony has worked with teachers around the world and has tutored on an MA in ELT. She has written coursebooks and many articles for professional journals. Her ELT qualifications include the UCLES Dip. TEFL and a Doctorate of Education in TEFL.
Review :
Briony Beaven has produced an invaluable resource, likely to take a prominent place on the bookshelves of ELT teacher educators for years to come. Embedded in contemporary theories of language teacher education, it offers a wealth of practical advice on teacher education materials and engaging activities that will both challenge and extend pre-service and in-service teacher development.
— Anne Burns, Honorary Professor, University of New South Wales and Curtin University, Australia
This much-needed book is academically rigorous and well-researched, yet remains very accessible. It holds great potential for teacher educators in a wide range of ELT contexts, including programmes leading to formal qualifications. It allows varied options for engagement with the content, and in exploring concepts such as critical evaluation and reflective practices through its chapter focuses and hands-on activities, it 'practises what it preaches'.
— Thom Kiddle, Director, Norwich Institute for Language Education, UK
This book provides an excellent survey of theory and research as well as offering practical and creative ideas for developing teacher education materials. A particular strength of the book is the way it clearly shows how practical ideas relate to underlying theory. This will make it an invaluable source of ideas both for academics and for teacher educators and training course developers.
— Adrian Doff, ELT writer and teacher educator, Germany
This detailed book provides a strong theoretical grounding for creators of teacher training materials, along with ready-to-use examples which put the theory into practice. Prompts for trainers to create their own materials supplement each chapter, providing guidance on how to apply the theory to trainers' own contexts. The book will be useful for researchers and trainers alike.
— Sandy Millin, teacher trainer and methodology writer, UK
