British Council TeachingEnglish 04 December 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 04 December  2013            Regular readers will know that the TeachingEnglish website has hosted a number of Guest Writers. Why not have a look at our archive where you can find articles and blogs by ELT luminaries such as Adrian Underhill, Carol Read, Adrian Holliday and Michael Swan. Online teacher training courses. Continue your professional development with our moderated and self-access training courses LearnEnglish Teens  Welcome to our website with material especially designed for teenage learners. LearnEnglish Kids Children can develop their English skills with topic-based games, songs, stories. LearnEnglish Develop your English, with language games, downloads, stories and articles. BritLit The aim of BritLit is to help teachers from around the world to exploit English literature in the ELT classroom.      Premier Skills  Communicate in two of the world's global languages - English and football  English Agenda The British Council's UK home for ELT and research Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!   This week we continue our exciting series of webinars and articles about different aspects of special educational needs (SEN).   Check out 'Dealing with visually impaired learners' on Wednesday, 'Learners with speech and language difficulties' on Thursday and 'Inclusive assessment' on Friday. And if you can't make it to the live webinar, you can watch the recordings.   We also have news of an online MA ELT course developed by Southampton University and the British Council in addition to the latest EPG newsletter and a new publication about learners' pecrceptions of inspirational teaching.   And finally, we have a new teen lesson plan which looks at staying safe online.   Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   A day in the life at an English school for learners with Special Educational Needs                                     Recently I had the privilege to spend a day with the brilliant teachers and wonderful pupils at the St Christopher Academy Trust specialist school near Southend in the UK who work with children at both primary and secondary level on the autism spectrum with a variety of communication and interaction needs. Read more   In one ear out of the other: how knowing about memory might help us in the classroom                                      How can I teach English to a learner who seems not to listen properly? At a recent teacher's meeting, I asked colleagues how many had learners in their classes who seem to miss part or all of instructions. The response was unanimous; everyone had someone and the conversation soon included descriptions of particular individuals and their difficulties in class. Read more Southampton University/British Council MA English Language Teaching: Online                                       Teachers from all over the world can take this part-time master's degree programme, which is studied entirely online. Developed collaboratively by the University of Southampton and the British Council, it offers postgraduate-level study in main areas of current theory and practice in applied linguistics and English language teaching. Read more Inspiring English teachers: a comparative study of learner perceptions of inspirational teaching                                      What makes teachers motivating? This paper reviews the literature on motivational teaching and presents findings on the nature of inspiring teaching in two countries, looking at how learners perceive the qualities of teachers who inspire them. Read more   Stay safe on social media                                 In June 2013, the British Council's Social Media Team Child Protection team worked with CEOP to develop 5 Golden Rules to help parents and carers keep their children safe on social media. As this was a great success and was well appreciated, we would now like to continue this work. The aim of this lesson is to sensitise teenage students to the risks of social media and to raise their awareness of how to stay safe when using it. Read more European Profiling Grid newsletter #6                                Spotlight on the EPG grid, the e-Grid and the user guide - the European Profiling Grid, the e-Grid and the user guide were officially launched on the 21st and 22nd of October in Sèvres (France) and are freely available on the project website. Read the latest EPG newsletter. Read more

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