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EMT Help! | Jon Turner | September 16th, 2004

I've just finished working through the EMT module, and I can't find any clear instructions on what the assignment should be. It mentions investigating your current or previous school, but doesn't seem to say to what end. I'm sure it's just me being thick, but if anyone has a more explicit idea on what the EMT assignment should be about, then I would appreciate a bit of feedback. I was thinking along the lines of taking my previous school and looking at how we (as managers), could have done things differently.

Cheers

Jon
Equatorial Guinea

Re: EMT Help! | David Anderson | September 16th, 2004

Hi Jonathon,

I haven't taken the Educational Management in TESOL module though I have finished the 10-credit Management in English Language Teaching. For that, I looked at an email exchange that happened at work and analyzed it in terms of the management processes that were taking place. This involved discourse analysis with reference to some of the categories that are common in the management literature (such as roles and different decision-making processes).

The problem is that the potential range of focuses is so vast it is difficult to find a starting point.   I think the answer is to look for something very concrete from you immediate surroundings. If I were you, I'd take a close look at what is happening around you in your workplace and use that as the basis of your research. Just find something that grabs you as interesting. You might be to record a meeting or a conversation between co-workers (with permission of course!) or look at some aspect of your work that is undergoing change etc. You could also incorporate an analysis of certain management documents or do a questionnaire on an issue that interests you. 

Let us know how you get on!

Best regards,

David Anderson
Abu Dhabi

Re: EMT Help! | Francesca Michalski | September 19th, 2004

Dear Jon

I took two management modules during the course. My first assignment was a SWOT analysis of my business (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) based on a simple breakdown of my courses. I also did a market survey of my clients (students) and interviewed two colleagues from other schools who were in managerial positions with questions I had related to insights from my analysis (in order to get another perspective). This assignment was for the single module.

For the double module, I made a comparison of a similar product (a CPE course) in a rival school as a form of benchmarking. I was able to interview the director of studies of this school at length about their course as well as an ex consumer of theirs and another client of an additional rival course. I was 'benchmarking' and I used Woodruff's marketing mix as a framework for analysis.

Both these assignments were interesting and useful to me. Particularly as they took me beyond my school and allowed me to look critically at my own products and situation.

Tell us what you decide to do,

Francesca
Brazil

 

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