TeachingEnglish newsletter 26 September 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter 26 September 2018 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! We've selected a range of practical resources to help you in the classroom and ideas to help you with your professional development. We hope you find them useful. And don't miss out on our Five on 5 - five webinars to celebrate World Teachers' Day. The TeachingEnglish team Webinar for teacher educators on inclusive practices In this webinar on Thursday 27 September at 16.00 UK time, Phil Dexter will present some different models of inclusion and identify the skills, knowledge and understanding that can equip teacher educators in working with teachers in creating more inclusive classrooms and schools. To participate, simply join our teacher educator community and register.  Champion teachers Peru This free downloadable book will serve a useful function for teachers around the world, not only in Peru, in providing illustrative cases for teachers and teacher educators interested in teacher-research engagement. It contains stories from the Champion Teachers Peru programme, showcasing and celebrating ten English language teachers' efforts to deepen their understanding and improve their practice via exploratory action research (EAR).  The top blogs and resource sites for teachers of English language learners In a previous post, Online tools, Larry Ferlazzo shared a list of his choices for the best free online sites for students who want to learn English. This 'companion' post shares a list of his favourite free resource sites for teachers of English language learners, including – but not limited to – bloggers. Scrabble letters These activities all use letters from the classic game of Scrabble, which you can prepare in advance using the downloadable PDF. Then, once you have made your sets, there are hundreds of things you can do with them. Ideas to get you started include Spelling tests, Crosswords, Races, and Tenses. And the more you use the letters, the more uses you'll find for them. Balancing the CPD This post by Nurjahan Naik suggests balancing the ways of CPD through both face-to-face and online modes. She discusses how, overall, both face-to-face and online platforms have made CPD more relevant, accessible and manageable, and it's a matter of choice to select the mode and medium. Read more about how to make the right choices and achieve a balance that's right for you. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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TeachingEnglish newsletter 19 September 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter 19 September 2018 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! We've selected a range of practical resources to help you in the classroom and ideas to help you with your professional development. We hope you find them useful. And don't forget this lesson plan for primary students designed to celebrate International Day of Peace on 21 September. The TeachingEnglish team Five on 5 - five webinars to celebrate World Teachers' Day October 5 is World Teachers' Day, and to celebrate we are running a series of five webinars during the day. Starting at 08.00 and running until 17.00 UK time, you will have the chance to take part in discussions ranging from multilingualism, 'native speakerism' and neuroscience in education to professional development for teacher educators and effective teaching in low-resource classrooms. The event is completely free and we will also be offering a discount on our self-access modules to all teachers during the week, from 1-5 October 2018.  Short projects to get them talking There's nothing like a group project to get your adult and teenage students talking. One particularly successful format is based on our love of lists. Students in small groups work towards compiling a top five. Read more about the advantages of short projects and examples of topics you can use in this short article. OLLReN online conference 2018 The OLLReN annual online conference takes place on Thursday 4 October 2018. Organised by the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG, Laureate International Universities and Cambridge University Press, the conference features twelve engaging talks on the theme of Research into Using Technology for Language Learning. This promises to be a valuable and useful event for anyone working with learning technologies in education. BACK TO THE 'FUTURELEARN' Today, online professional development can be as advantageous as face-to-face. A massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform called FutureLearn and its practices prove this fact. Attending a FutureLearn MOOC can foster active learning, peer learning and getting instant feedback in one's learning environment. In this post, Ceyda Basmaci takes a look at the benefits of the popular MOOC learning platform called FutureLearn and its practices.  'September' by Fiona Mauchline 'I was fifty this year. Not a great achievement, it's just one of those things that happens. But when it does, the phrase "life's too short" rings ever truer.' In this reflective post, Fiona Mauchline - a busy writer, teacher-trainer and teacher - describes the challenges of making changes and how she realised she could do less, but do it better.   ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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TeachingEnglish newsletter 12 September 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter 12 September 2018 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! We've selected a range of practical resources to help you in the classroom and ideas to help you with your professional development. We hope you find them useful. The TeachingEnglish team Writing ELT stories for primary In this article, experienced writers Katherine Bilsborough and Cheryl Palin discuss their strategies for writing stories for primary and offer some advice to anyone wanting to start. There are lots of different kinds of ELT stories for primary – readers, termly review stories, literacy page fiction, and Class Book unit stories. In this article they focus mainly on Class Book unit stories because this is where most of their experience lies. TeachingEnglish training Applying approaches to special educational needs is a tutored online teacher development course starting on 26 September. Register now and take part in a course covering a wide range of learner needs that will help you immediately use inclusive practices with all your groups. Creating a positive learning environment Start your new school year with our free self-access professional development module, Creating a positive learning environment. The aim of this module is to support teachers to explore an element of managing the lesson by examining practical ways to ensure a positive classroom environment to benefit both teachers and learners. You can complete it alone or with colleagues. Blog topics for September and October 2018 Our topics for September and October look at the theme of professional and career development. There are four topics, covering the benefits of online or face-to-face continuing professional development; linking research to what you do in the classroom; the benefits of being a member of a teacher association or special interest group; and bloggers you follow and the impact on your teaching. A wiggle room curriculum Last year, Rob Sheppard found himself leading a large curriculum redesign for an adult ESOL programme in the US. Clocking in at six levels, from true beginner to high intermediate, aligned to the daunting College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and integrating life skills such as digital literacy, financial literacy and civics—this was, by a long shot, the most complex curriculum project he'd ever faced. Read how flexibility or wiggle room helped. Season poems This unit is designed for teenage or adult learners at B1+ level to explore Dylan Thomas's poems on the theme of seasons. It gives students the opportunity to explore the language in the poems from the poetic and the grammatical points of view. It will help students expand their vocabulary, with a focus on word formation and different uses of '-ing', and give them the opportunity to do some creative writing. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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