TEFL Courses, TESOL Courses
and TEFL
Certificate Training,
TESOL Certificate
Training for Teaching English Abroad: Thailand
TRAINER OF THE MONTH, JULY, 2006:
David Solomon, Pattaya.
Our
talented Trainer of the Month
has over 20 years of English
teaching experience!
They love their teacher, David!
 What
makes an experienced and successful EFL and ESL teacher suited for the
important job of training other highly skilled teachers through our
training course? Basically, it comes down to caring deeply about one's
students and associates; extensive experience; and the ability to
function well and successfully in a considerable variety of teaching
and administrative situations. Such a man is Mr David Solomon, an
Australian native presently
employed
by TEXT-AND-TALK Academy, Thailand as the Pattaya TEFL for Target Learner
Groups Course Trainer, whose
thoughtful and effective training methods have endeared him not only to
us and his teacher trainee graduates, but also to the schools who
employ these well-qualified people.
David is highly qualified for
the position, holding
a Bachelor
of Arts Degree with a major in Sociology and minors in Psychology,
Administration and Consumer
Affairs, and, through
the
University of Southern Queensland,
a Graduate Diploma in Education and a Masters of Education Degree in
Special Education. David brings more than two decades of valuable
English (and other
subject) teaching experience to the present task. He is currently
undertaking a Doctor of Education Degree
specialising in Leadership and Management through the University of Queensland, and has written a book on The Effective Learning and Teaching of Children,
which awaits publication.
He previously was a greatly-prized head
teacher and supervisor for the teaching of adults and children in Thailand, and is still involved in that
area. Prior to that, David was Principal at Bauhinia State School with the Education Department
in Queensland, Australia.
David additionally taught at Dingo, Gumlu and Bluewater State Schools where he was Acting Principal
and completed short-term contracts at Mabel Park, Eagleby South and
Marsden
State Schools, teaching all-year levels.
He has been involved in the development
and implementation of Whole School Literacy Plans and Outcomes Based
Curriculum
for the new Science, SOSE and H&PE Syllabus at Bauhinia State School, as well being a member of the
Performance Facilitation team for Education, Queensland.
David likewise was a member of a number of
committees at Bluewater State School, including the Social Justice
Committee and
the Behaviour Management Committee, and taught year-5 students at the South Queensland International College where he was involved in both
extra and
co-curricula activities at that school.
Part
of his prior experience includes extensive study of
approaches for working with students with behavioural difficulties.
Some of
these approaches (in line with the relevant schools' behavioural
management
policies) were the withdrawal of the student from classroom activities;
implementation of a reward system for students who exhibited the
desired behaviours; and systems of positive and negative reinforcement.
Other students
within the classroom were encouraged to ignore the relevant students'
inappropriate behaviours.
(Not necessarily relevant to our own TEFL course trainees, to be sure!)
David assisted as
a voluntary tutor at Beaudesert High School, working with the Learning
Enrichment and
Needs Support group, tutoring students both in-class and in one-on-one
situations in the areas of mathematics and English. He
has tutored students with both behavioural and learning difficulties
from years 8 - 11, as well as assisted in year 10 to provide
students with the
relevant social skills to prepare and write résumés and undertake job
interviews.
David
has regularly
provided on-the-job training and undertaken monitoring programs in
order to
evaluate the effectiveness of tasks being undertaken (including the
practice teaching sessions of our own course, prior to his becoming
trainer), and previously developed and
provided day-to-day training programs for the Air Surveillance Unit at
RAAF
Darwin and the Logan Institute of TAFE, where he was employed as a
casual teacher presenting Study Skills courses for Adult and Community
Education.
As
an Instructor
with the Northern Territory Air Training Corps, David gained valuable
experience in
the development and presentation of instructional technique training
programs
for both junior and senior NCO courses, as well as lecturing on a
variety of
other subjects.
The list of achievements goes on
and on! Such has been the invaluable
experience that David brings to us as our TEFL course trainer in
Pattaya.
These are the reasons Mr David Solomon has
been selected Trainer of the Month!
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