Suzanne Antonaros and Lilika Couri are a team of professional teacher trainers with over 25 years experience in teaching and administration both in Greece and abroad. In 1984, they established EDUCATIONAL & TRAINING CONSULTANTS (ETC), which has been the first EFL teacher training and consultancy company in Greece. ETC offers a wide variety of seminars, courses and in-service teacher training programs designed for the EFL professional. These may be teachers who have never had any training and/or experience, school owners who feel the need for further training or exposure to new techniques, young people who have made a career decision and are interested in education, learner psychology, etc., as well as experienced teachers and school managers who are eager to learn more.
Teacher training offers foreign language teachers the opportunity to develop a sense of professionalism: a sense of pride in their profession, a sense of confidence in their creativity. ETC seminar participants develop an overall awareness of what it really means to be a teacher, the most important aspect of which is a deep awareness of teaching as well as of self-development. Any kind of training should also promote the idea of sharing and caring between both the teachers themselves and teachers and learners.
ETC courses are distinguished by their diversity, as Suzanne and Lilika look at foreign language education in Greece globally: children, teenagers, adult learners, directors of study, school managers and secretaries as well as parents have their special needs and “play” their special part in the repertoire of the seminars offered.
Suzanne and Lilika believe in constant personal development, as well as in innovation: a teacher must know tradition, must be aware of new trends, but she must also create innovative ideas. Having this in mind, they themselves observe tradition and follow new trends, but they also seek to offer new ideas in teacher training. As a result, ETC has been a pioneer in initiating new concepts in teacher training. Thus, they have invited internationally known guest trainers/authors such as Mario Rinvolucri, Herbert Puchta, Carolyn Graham, Anne Lief Barlin, John Morgan, Jim Wingate, Sheilagh Deller, Micheline Flak and Eleni Livaniou to co-animate with them and to offer Courses on Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Theater Show Production, Learning Through Movement and Music, Creative Chants in the Classroom, Yoga in Education, Psychology and Posture Integration, English for Academic Purposes, etc.
Pilgrims Teacher Training Seminars, Canterbury, England, collaborated with ETC in exchanging teacher trainers from 1987 – 1991.
In Greece, ETC has collaborated with the Panhellenic Foreign Language School Owners Federation (PALSO), as well as with the local PALSO associations, especially with the Athens-Attiki Panellinios Association. ETC was instrumental in establishing the PALSO Athens Teacher Development Centre and ELT Materials Resource Library.
Since the Spring of 1995, ETC has been collaborating with the English Language & Literature Department of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and its Research Centre (RCEL), especially the PEAP online teacher training program.
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