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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week sees the E-merging Forum 5 online conference. The live streaming will be available on the TeachingEnglish website and you can participate for free.
We also have news this week of an exciting competition with fabulous prizes! If you can write great lesson plans, why not enter the Premier Skills English lesson plan competition?
And, great news for children learning English - the British Council and Aardman Animations launch their first Learning Time with Timmy tablet app!
Finally, there are two very interesting webinars to watch: 'Teaching students with Asperger's' and 'Barefoot with beginners', and a new publication about professional development for English language teachers.
We hope you find these useful. Deb
TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC |
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 | If you can't attend the conference, take part in the E-merging Forum 5 online. Online participation is free, no registration is required. This year's online programme includes live streaming of all 11 excellent plenary talks, opportunity to ask speakers a question, E-blog with all the highlights of the Forum, daily video interviews with speakers, lots of online contests and opportunities to win wonderful prizes. The live streaming will be available on the TeachingEnglish website. Read moreYou can also watch this video message from E-merging Forum 3 keynote speaker, Jeremy Day. |
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| | Do you write great lesson plans? Enter the Premier Skills English lesson plan competition and you could win a fantastic prize. The lesson plans will be published on Premier Skills English and teachers will be invited to review and share their favourites on social media. Find out more
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| | In this webinar on Tuesday 17 March, 9am, Ceri Jones looks at going back to basics with a class of beginners and shares her experience of discarding the coursebook, syllabus and pacing schedule. Register for the event.
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 | In this webinar, Peter Moran covers the following four areas: What is Asperger's Syndrome? How can we as teachers recognise children who may have Asperger's? How can we help children with Asperger's in class? What can teachers do to help parents? Watch a recording of the webinar.
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 | Children around the world can now learn English alongside woolly favourite Timmy as the British Council and Aardman Animations launch their first Learning Time with Timmy tablet app. As the latest venture in the unique partnership between the two organisations, the brand new app takes young learners on their first steps into learning the English language through a series of stimulating and playful activities.
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| | Professional development for English language teachers: perspectives from higher education in Turkey | |
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| | This collection is drawn from papers and presentations at the Ideals and Realities: Continuing Professional Development for Preparatory Year Instructors conference in Hacettepe University, Ankara, in 2014. The eight case studies in this volume describe how CPD has been managed in different institutional contexts in Turkey. The approaches used cover a very broad range of options, and the British Council hopes that the volume will provide valuable insight for anyone interested in CPD in their own contexts and offer a means to reflect on and refresh practice for the benefit of teachers, trainers, and their students.
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