Anthony Gaughan

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help.  Anthony Gaughan is a teacher and teacher-trainer with over 25 years of experience working in the corporate, state secondary, higher education, and private adult education sectors. He is a Cambridge English approved Assessor and Main Course Tutor for the CELTA initial teacher training qualification, as well as a Tutor for the DELTA Module 2 and the Trinity Diploma. Together with his then-colleague, Izzy Orde, Anthony first applied Dogme ELT principles to running CELTA courses in 2009, and has been advocating for simplifying initial teacher education ever since. See his blog "Teacher Training Unplugged." In this episode, Anthony dives into: how a Japanese balloon pushed him towards Dogme teaching versus teaching-like behaviours transforming CELTA training into unprescribed, dogmatic experiences why he was called irresponsible and dangerous at IATEFL training as a suspension of disbelief debunking myths about beginner students, beginner teachers, and new beginnings Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. More on Anthony Gaughan: Follow on LinkedIn His Blog Hamburg School of English Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Want to Grow your Teaching Business? Book a Call with us Join Our Weekly Newsletter Join our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time