Practitioner Certificate for 2010

Learn skills and techniques to help you to …
… Be more effective in the classroom!
…Understand your learners more completely
… Set and achieve goals
… Better manage the constant changes school life brings us
… Communicate with others with elegance and effectiveness
… Discover more talents
… Live the life you want to lead

All this and very much more can be experienced on the

Practitioner Certificate in NLP for Education

Our next Practitioner Certificate course starts on April 10 and consists of 16 modules to be held on Saturdays on a monthly basis in 2010 and 2011. This first level of training involves between 130 and 150 hours of direct training in the form of practical activities and guided practice. It gives students acquaintance with the methodology and many of the techniques comprising NLP and leads to an internationally recognised certificate as Practitioner of NLP in Education.
The Practitioner certificate with Resourceful Teaching offers you the chance to get an NLP certification and practise your English at the same time!

For a course syllabus and further details see our website: www.resourcefulteaching.com.ar or send a mail to jamie@resourcefulteaching.com.ar or lauraszmuch@gmail.com

Venue: Versailles, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Time: One Saturday per month 9.00 – 17.00
Start Date: Saturday April 10
Investment: 260 pesos per module

The course includes written material and a full bibliography and morning and afternoon refreshments. As much as we encourage reading, the real value of NLP is the putting it into practice and our students have constant opportunities to employ what they learn in their daily work and lives.

To enroll, please contact us for an enrolment form. Your place is guaranteed upon payment of the first module.

Laura Szmuch and Jamie Duncan

NB: This course will also be offered in Spanish this year on a week day evening to be announced. If you are interested, contact Laura at lauraszmuch@gmail.com for details of timetables.

RTWeek!!!

Dear teacher/educator,



One of the best ways at keeping ourselves up-to-date and enthusiastic about our work as teachers is to make sure that we learn and get to be a student as well. What we study can be directly related to what we teach or it can be something completely different that interests and in some way nourishes us. When we learn we are opening ourselves up to new knowledge and to new understandings, we are exercising our brain and perhaps our body and we are establishing new contacts with others and new relationships in the context of the study situation. We are receiving and when we receive, it means we have something to give others.



When we feel stressed and burdened by our work or other factors in our lives, we can, of course, go to the mall and spend a lot of money, pig out on our favourite junk food or sit out the sense of sloth in front of non-demanding television programmes. These solutions can work very well for a short time but strangely some of the most contented and inspired educators are those who are busy studying for themselves. Studying for themselves and not simply to get an extra certificate or diploma. Studying to satisfy their curiosity or to become more fulfilled as a person. This time and energy invested on ourselves can be very precious as it gives us the fuel to face our classes with spark and vigour throughout the whole year.



At Resourceful Teaching, we (Laura and Jamie) take these issues into consideration when planning our February training courses each year. For us, it is important that RT Week gives teachers a bright start to the year with a sense of acquiring food for the brain, the soul and the body as well as practical ideas, tips and lessons that can be transferred to each person’s teaching context. We blend the latest research of education academics that we ourselves study, with classroom common sense, new trends in language and culture, wisdom from the great cultures of the world and mix it all together with proven techniques from NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) of which we are trainers.



This February we will be exploring some of the following topics:

How students really learn and why much of our understanding up to now has been based on assumptions and not actual evidence.

Can the ability to read facial expressions really help us with our teaching?

Is asking questions a dying art? How can knowing the best questions to ask help open the right doors?

Do we manage time or does time manage us? The importance of self-management in using our time effectively.

The state of the English language and English-speaking cultures as we enter a new decade. Is our view of English as complete and as realistic as it could be to help guide our students?

Learning to be creative and passing this on to our students.

The importance of emotions in learning and how as teachers we can harness the emotions to extend and fix learning.

The value of being present in the classroom, whether as teacher or student. How does this improve the quality of our study and our lives.



Come and join us for a fun and stimulating week in Buenos Aires from 8 -11 February. More information about the workshops and how to enroll follows beneath.



We look forward to meeting you and learning together!



Laura Szmuch and Jamie Duncan