ELT Leadership & Management
by Brett Bowie

The ELT Leadership and Management (ELM) SIG is a forum designed to support the enthusiastic, but sometimes isolated, teachers who have become coordinators or supervisors in their respective English language centers. The concept is simple- create a knowledgeable collective of ELT coordinators and supervisors - and teachers aspiring to become ELT coordinators for their respective programs;

• provide a secure forum where these people can share and disseminate relevant information pertaining to their jobs,
• and a forum where they can discuss and post up effective ideas and solutions to common situations or issues that often occur in leadership and management positions;
• Do all this but also respect the privacy, confidentiality and/or commercial sensitivities of the specific schools and persons involved.
• End result – everyone benefits. The individuals on the board, their teachers and management, their schools, and ultimately, the students in their program.

We currently have 21 members and you are encourage to join us. To date we’ve chatted about a few interesting issues relating to ELT leadership and management and exchanged useful information. I envisage the board with 100+ members and a board that continues to create pertinent, relevant, succinct information for the busy people involved in it. The National Conference held an ELT Leadership and Management workshop facilitated by myself and Ms Melanie vandenHoven. This interactive workshop was designed to raise and discuss a few of the high priority issues involved in ELT leadership and management.