Workshop || Developing English Teacher training materials

This workshop was held as a part of the British Council Multi-Country Project: English as a school subject (ESS). Prof Sue Garton, University of Aston, UK, and Dr. Aileen Ireland, Stirling University, UK conducted the workshop. Respected Dr. Arifa Rahman is working as their research advisor here. The workshop was focused on teacher-fronted classrooms and their development based on the Bangladeshi context. I am grateful to Associate Professor Mian Md. Naushaad Kabir, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh for giving me the opportunity to participate there.

Most of the participants were IML, DU bachelor, and master's students. There were few faculties from institutes and organizations also participated in that event. I reached there after 30 minutes and found that they were showing some sample classroom videos of teacher-fronted classrooms. Perhaps, they wanted to get some ideas on how the teacher-fronted class can work as it is a long-practiced traditional way of teaching. Participants were answering and gave their opinions after the questions.

In my experience, the teacher-fronted traditional way of teaching is a comfortable zone for English teachers while there were a lot of changes in the syllabus, curriculum, and textbooks in the last two decades. When there is a lot of discrimination in the teachers' and students' facilities from place to place any kind of changes that make uncomfortable zone cannot work properly. As a novice researcher, I feel the sampling parameters and survey should be done carefully and honestly, otherwise, democracy in research will not be justified.