CI presenters don’t need to fly around the world anymore to present to schools and districts who want to adopt CI. That way of training people is an outdated model. Now, it can all be done online. Besides, who uses air travel anymore, with the planet about to burn up?
An interesting result of this current change in training models is that, instead of being inflicted with the new work around comprehensible input language instruction, language teachers will in the future be able to choose to inflict it on themselves. What does this mean?
Everybody knows that many of the teachers in those trainings don’t want to be there, and if they don’t they shouldn’t have to be subjected to a pedagogy that they don’t want to embrace. They should be able to choose there trainings.
Many language teachers are happy with the textbook and they should be allowed to continue on with it until they themselves, on their own volition, decide to change or until they are threatened with loss of their jobs by determined and enlightened admin teams.
I one interesting situation, a teacher who has mastered the The StarSystem™ with a wealth of knowledge about how it works has been asked to train the rest of her department – 11 other language teachers. The problem is that, in that department, 10 of them want nothing to do with the Star and only 1 – a brand new language teacher – wants the training.
Here’s a question: Wy should that one teacher be forced to train those 10 other people who don’t want to change? If they don’t want the training and would only do it because the administration forces them, that doesn’t sound like a very pleasant task for the teacher who has mastered the Star.
Her only “fault” was that she got really good at the Star, which attracted the attention of parents and admins, and now she has been asked to teach people who have no interest in what she knows?
That is what empaths do – they give away their energy and gold for nothing. I suggested that she not do it until they show her the money. And even then, there is the factor that the other people in her department don’t even want the training.
And what about the new teacher. She shouldn’t even have to train the new teacher – that’s a lot of work! (The new teacher is just taking both of my new trainings starting in April.)
Don’t train unwilling people in your buildings. Always come from your own power position of being able to say no to unreasonable requests from your admins that force you to do a lot of extra work without proper remuneration or if it is unpleasant.
Watch out for the old guard teachers in schools, who are all still in power in most districts. We don’t want to offend them. They should be able to do what they want, as I said before, but I actually have mixed feelings about that. Why?
It is because we should be able to do what we want, but not at the expense of children, and that last part is the part that is going to catch up with people who look at the new stuff around CI and shake their fist at it.