Anthony Gaughan
Anthony Gaughan is a teacher and teacher-trainer with over 25 years of experience working in the corporate, state secondary, higher education, and private adult education sectors. He is a Cambridge English approved Assessor and Main Course Tutor for the CELTA initial teacher training qualification, as well as a Tutor for the DELTA Module 2 and the Trinity Diploma. Together with his then-colleague, Izzy Orde, Anthony first applied Dogme ELT principles to running CELTA courses in 2009, and has been advocating for simplifying initial teacher education ever since.
See his blog "Teacher Training Unplugged."
In this episode, Anthony dives into:
how a Japanese balloon pushed him towards Dogme
teaching versus teaching-like behaviours
transforming CELTA training into unprescribed, dogmatic experiences
why he was called irresponsible and dangerous at IATEFL
training as a suspension of disbelief
debunking myths about beginner students, beginner teachers, and new beginnings
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About Anthony Gaughan
Anthony Gaughan is a teacher and teacher-trainer with over 25 years of experience working in the corporate, state secondary, higher education, and private adult education sectors. He is a Cambridge English approved Assessor and Main Course Tutor for the CELTA initial teacher training qualification, as well as a Tutor for the DELTA Module 2 and the Trinity Diploma. Together with his then-colleague, Izzy Orde, Anthony first applied Dogme ELT principles to running CELTA courses in 2009, and has been advocating for simplifying initial teacher education ever since. He gives talks and workshops on this and other topics for schools, teachers' associations, and publishers worldwide and online, and is a former coordinator of TDSIG, the Teacher Development Special Interest Group within IATEFL, for which he has also volunteered on the Membership and Marketing Committee. He has become accustomed to writing about himself in the third person, and although he does not write publicly about ELT much these days, when he does, it's over at http://teachertrainingunplugged.com
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