Rabu, 21 Desember 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 21 December 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
21 December 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
Welcome to the final newsletter of 2016. The TeachingEnglish newsletter will be taking a break over the festive period but we will be back with more great resources in 2017.

This week we invite you to submit suggestions for the 2017 ELTons lifetime achievement award. For the first time, we are encouraging you, members of the ELT community, to nominate your choice.

For those of you with a few more adult or teen lessons to go before the holidays, take a look at our quick revision games. And in preparation for the new year, check out our Calendar Based activities for kids, and New Year themed lesson for teens.

We also bring you two new publications this week: 'Ensuring quality in English language teacher education' and 'Social attitudes towards the English language in Bihar'.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team
Teaching kids

For the start of the new year, why not try our Calendar Based Activities, a lesson is based around the calendar and helping students to use dates. It is suitable for language assistants as well as teachers, and revises numbers, dates, days, and months. Kids can also talk about their birthdays.

Teaching teens

In this lesson, students discuss how they celebrate New Year, and read about some typical celebrations in the UK, as well as looking at New Year's resolutions and reflecting on what makes a year good or bad. 



Teaching adults

As you come to the end of the year, you may be thinking about what to do in your final lessons. Here are two fun, quick revision games to help you end on a high note - Name 5 things and Categories. 

Development

'Ensuring quality in English language teacher education' is a compilation of a selection of presentations made at the fifth international Teacher Educator Conference held in Hyderabad, India from 27 February to 1 March 2015. The conference sought to explore many of the threads that individually and collectively contribute towards teachers receiving a quality teacher education at the beginning of and during their teaching careers.





Events

Who should win the 2017 ELTons lifetime achievement award? For the first time, we are encouraging members of the ELT community to submit suggestions for the 2017 ELTons lifetime achievement award. This award is given to ELT professionals who have made a substantial contribution to the ELT profession
throughout their career. The panel is made up of ten experienced ELT professionals who will meet at the end of January to discuss prospective candidates. The winner is announced at the award ceremony in June. 

Magazine

'Social attitudes towards the English language in Bihar' is a publication which presents the findings of a research programme led by Dr David Hayes. It identifies the perceptions of the place, value and status of English in India of a range of social groups comprising parents of school-age children, students in higher education and private language schools and professionals (people in employment in the private sector or with the government), almost two thousand respondents in total.



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Rabu, 14 Desember 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 14 December 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
14 December 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we announce news of a free TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) course - Classroom-based Research for Professional Development.

For the classroom we have a practical article for those of you teaching one-to-one classes; a lesson for teens based on Dylan Thomas' childhood account of a Christmas Day experience; and a range of winter activities for your younger learners.

This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is Edouard Creemers' and Renate Thummler Blum's 'CT and Technology as part of 21st Century Skills'. And our featured blog post is David Dodgson's '21st Century Boy'.

And finally, don't miss out on today's webinar by Tim Phillips Not going round in circles
, which takes place at 11.00 am UK time.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team
Teaching kids

'Winter' is a variety of fun activities about how to integrate Christmas and seasonal traditions into your lessons. There is also a winter project that includes Christmas as just one of its many aspects. Other activities include crafts, songs, baking and games complete with freely downloadable resources. 






Teaching teens

'A Child's Christmas in Wales' explores Dylan Thomas' childhood account of a Christmas Day experience and gives learners the opportunity to develop their creative writing skills by incorporating some of the linguistic features present in Dylan Thomas' prose. The lesson is suitable for B1 level learners and comes with freely downloadable resources.



Teaching adults

Most teachers at some time in their career have to teach one to one classes. They find a very different, challenging and special learning context, with unique possibilities and unique problems. In this article we will look at what exactly makes these classes so different from teaching groups, identify the advantages and disadvantages of learning and teaching in this way, and review some possible approaches and techniques to help effective learning.

Development

This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is Edouard Creemers' and Renate Thummler Blum's 'CT and Technology as part of 21st Century Skills'. Edouard and Renate look at on-line learning, blended learning and flipping the classroom, in addition to discussing what a cultivated critical thinker is, how we can become critical thinkers ourselves and how to incorporate Critical Thinking in the teaching/learning process. 




Events

Join a free TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) course, opening on January 9th for those teaching in difficult circumstances in developing country contexts. The five-week experience - 'Classroom-based Research for Professional Development'- will provide a practical introduction to teacher-research, helping teachers to explore challenges by planning and carrying out small-scale classroom investigations. Registration starts on 1st January 2017.


Magazine

In ELT, and in education in general, there are many terms and phrases that seem to be 'in fashion' at a particular time. Lately, one such term that seems to get thrown about to oohs and aahs in educational discussions is '21st Century Skills'. We are told that our learners must develop them, we as teachers must be
aware of them, they are necessary for an ever-changing world of work and study... and yet, I have rarely heard definitions of what they are exactly. Read David
Dodgson's latest blog post '21st Century Boy' to learn more.



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Rabu, 07 Desember 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 07 December 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
07 December 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we are pleased to announce a webinar by Tim Phillips - Not going round in circles, which takes place on 14 December.

For the classroom we have a NEW lesson plan for teens and adults - The Christmas gift experiment; a discussion lesson on the topic of donating to charity; and a seasonal lesson for your very young learners.

This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is Duncan Foord's 'How to get your team thinking'.

And finally, learn more about classroom management by reading Larry Ferlazzo's latest post.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team
Teaching kids

We have lots of Christmas activities for younger learners on the site. This week we feature a lesson for very young learners where children practise Christmas words with flashcard activities and games, listen to and sing a Christmas song, then they make a Christmas card.






Teaching teens

This lesson plan for teenagers of all ages and adults uses a short, two-minute video to look at the concept of giving and receiving gifts at Christmas. The video focuses on shoppers at a shopping centre, or shopping mall, who are given a present but then told that it is not for them. Students will use creativity and analysis to predict unknown facts in addition to developing fluency and writing skills.



Teaching adults

Every year as Christmas approaches, thousands of charities launch appeals, asking for donations. Christmas is a time of giving and it is a time when many charities raise a large proportion of their total annual income. With so many charities to choose from how can we decide which one to donate to? In this activity learners will imagine the class has £100 to donate. They will work in groups to decide which of four charities they should give the money to.

Development

This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is Duncan Foord's 'How to get your team thinking'. The ideas in this talk can be applied in staff meetings, management meetings and any projects which involve a team working together. They will help your team to become more creative and to make better decisions.



Events

Join us on 14 December at 11.00 am UK time to discover how we find our way through professional development. Tim Phillips will be discussing how you can get your bearings using the British Council CPD framework for teachers. He'll look at how you can find solutions to particular issues facing you and discuss how you grow as a teacher during your career. 

Magazine

Some say that the most effective classroom management strategy is having engaging lessons. Yes, having engaging lessons is an important element of good overall classroom management, but it's not enough. To find out more about good classroom management, read Larry Ferlazzo's latest post - Five Guidelines For Effective Classroom Management. 


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