Academic Research Journal of Psychology and Counselling

ARJPC

ISSN: 2384-6178

Vol. 9(1), pp. 11-15, July, 2021.

https://doi.org/10.14662/arjpc2021.030

ISSN: 2384-6178

 

 

Research Paper

 

An In Service Teacher Training Course on Adult Training

 

1 Effrosyni K. Giannarou

 

Affiliation: 12. Patrarhou Fotiou St, 13121 Ilion, Greece

E-mail: frosgian@hotmail.com

 

Accepted 10 July 2021

Abstract

 

This paper describes an in service teacher training course on adult training. The trainees are Greek EFL teachers who teach in adult education structures like Second Chance Schools, Centers of Lifelong Learning and Vocational Training Institutes. First, the trainees’ expectations are assessed and then a daily six hour training course is designed. The course takes place in a Greek public school. First, adult learning principles are discussed. There are several activities aiming at the participants’ getting to know each other and then their adult teaching strategies are discussed in groups among them. Vocabulary teaching as well as teaching styles and strategies are put forward and the trainees participate in an activity where they are presented with vocabulary and asked to compose an imaginary text incorporating the linguistic items presented to them. During the last part of the training session, trainees are engaged in problem solving. Case studies of adult learners posing behavior and discipline problems in the classroom are presented and the teachers work in pairs to propose class management solutions. As follow up to the course, the trainees are required to present a description of their colleague peers as well as of the case study scenario they jointly tackled. Also, they will complete a questionnaire where they will evaluate the training course itself.

 

Key words: adult learning, Second Chance School, Centers of Lifelong Learning, Vocational Training Institutes, class management, case study, vocabulary teaching, teaching styles and strategies


 

Cite This Article As: Effrosyni K. Giannarou (2021). An In Service Teacher Training Course on Adult Training. Acad. Res. J. Psychol. Counsel. 9(1): 11-15