Thursday, March 30, 2017

Cambridge DELTA Plan: Modules One, Two, (and a bit of) Three

DELTA End Games (DEGs)
(The Cambridge Delta Experience)

By: Huss Farsani
Word Count: 2,650
Average Reading Time: 14 minutes

Most of us practicing teachers enter various programs of professional development (from 1-day workshops on a specific aspect of classroom teaching to extended programs such as MAs or Cambridge Delta) without a clear picture of the end game. Without the ‘end game’ in mind, even the most motivated teachers and practitioners, especially those who have developed their own effective routines over the years, ‘feel lost, overwhelmed, intimidated, or simply, turned off,’ in the words of many fellow teachers I have spent time with throughout such courses.