E-Learning

In 2004 I created on-line learning materials for police officers using the Open Space Virtual Learning Environment and more recently, in autumn 2005, I created web-based materials using the Author Plus Online system and tested the effectiveness of these against face-to-face teaching.

Digital Media

In 2005 I ran a course for teachers from Poland, Lithuania and Estonia on how to film and edit digital media for use with their students. The teachers, who had no experience of shooting video films, successfully storyboarded, filmed and edited two five minute films in three days. This was also a fantastic team-building exercise.

Language Centre Management

I advised the managers of the Public Service Academy and Border Guard School on quality improvement of the language teaching at these institutions ranging from placement testing to recuitment to the use of the Common European Framework.

Strategic Planning

While running the Justice and Home Affairs Peacekeeping English Project in Estonia I devised an innovative exit strategy to ensure the continuation of co-operation between the Estonian and Latvian police training institutions. These were: training teacher trainers, developing a critical friends relationship between the partner institutions and developing an on-going joint project - the web Police-Rescue dictionary.

Team Building

In my four years of working with the Peacekeeping English Project I did a lot of team building in different situations with a wide variety of teachers and managers from countries as far afield as Uzbekistan, Georgia and Armenia, Slovenia and Romania.

ESP Materials Development for English Language Teaching

Materials writing training and workshops focussed on developing quality materials quickly.

Corpus Linguistics

I developed a criminal justice system corpus of one and a half million words and analysed this to produce a key word list which specifies which words police officers, at an upper-intermediate language level, should learn.

Business English Teaching

I have extensive experience delivering Business English courses to corporate clients such as Arthur Anderson.

Grammar: the ELT Verb Worksheets

In this personal project I wrote a book about the ELT verb and prepared these grammar worksheeets to support the ideas in the book.