What I really learnt from the DELTA

Posted on 27/10/2010 by alexcase

Being a Regional DELTA Tutor made me think back to my own DELTA experience in 2002 and re-read the How was the Dip? reflections that I wrote shortly after.  The Cambridge Diploma has changed since then, and so have the conclusions that I would draw from my experience. And I certainly don’t write my aims on the board anymore!

Here’s what I would say I learnt, looking back from this far:

– There is no limit to how long you can spend planning one lesson, so you should set yourself a sensible limit and stick to it, e.g. by never taking your planning home

– You can guarantee that you can find a TEFL expert who agrees with what you want to do in the classroom, so you may as well just get on with it without their help

– You can suck the marrow out of a TEFL book or journal in 20-30 minutes, and then decide if you really like it enough to spend more time with it (usually you won’t)

And you? (MAers also allowed- just this once!)

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1 Response to What I really learnt from the DELTA

  1. Adam's avatar Adam says:
    30/10/2010 at 13:51

    One great insider secret that I picked up was to purposefully do something badly or misplan an activity slightly, as you would then have something concrete to write about in your reflection on the lesson, thus proving that you’d learned something from the process. Is that cheating?

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