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Summer is the perfect time to reflect on our professional life, recharge our batteries and plan the future. Motivation and vision are strongly connected to our hopes, aspirations, and wishes which create a carefully cherished positive future self-image. To balance our personal and professional life is of the utmost importance, take a deep breath and dive into the summer with meaningful plans!
Description: Motivating language teachers with vision
This training aims to bring attention to vision in the teaching profession, where long-term goals and future plans are combined with tangible images and the involvement of different senses. It offers ideas for how to foster motivation through a process of creating mental images and sustaining them to reach one’s goals. The participants are invited to discover how vision and motivation are deeply linked with different self-images, where there is a strong desire for intentional change and a positive future self-image is carefully cherished.
Aims and objectives:
The aim of the training is to introduce a visionary motivational programme for teachers that they can also use in their classrooms with their language learners through introducing the concept of possible selves for both language learners and language teachers. We will begin with the ideal self, which consists of our hopes, aspirations and wishes, and bridging the gap between the ideal self we aspire towards and our actual self. We will then visit the counter-acting feared possible self, which consists of all the possibilities that we’d like to avoid. Finally, we will become acquainted with the ought-to self as well, which reflects the social pressures associated with the expectations of the social environment. This is all for our own professional wellbeing to avoid burnout and keep being motivated in our profession.
Learning outcomes:
Language educators will be able to connect to everyday practice through imaginative and practical communicative tasks. Methodological suggestions will illustrate how to use ideas for professional development or classroom use. Sequencing the visionary motivational programme for teachers (based on Hadfield & Dörnyei, 2013) to create the desired Possible Selves can be applied to teachers as well in order to sustain motivation throughout our profession.
Target group:
- Teachers of any subject/any age
Minimum level of language: B1-B2 in English
Duration of training: 35 lessons, 7 days
Trainer: Beatrix Price
Date:
Rovinj (English)
2025.07.13-19. Planned
Location: Rovinj, Croatia
Price: EUR 595, incl. course, certificate, Erasmus+ documentation (if needed), welcome lunch or dinner, farewell cultural activity
Applicable funds: As part of the Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (KA1), all costs for mobility /travel expenses, course fees, accommodation, subsistence fee/ are covered by the fund.
Trainer
Beatrix Price
Teacher trainer, EFL teacher
Beatrix works as a teacher and a teacher trainer at the Language Pedagogy Department at the School of English and American Studies, ELTE University, Budapest, where she teaches Methodology and other teaching-related courses.