TeachingEnglish teacher newsletter 03 March 2021

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Is this email displaying properly? If not, read it in your browser Newsletter TeachingEnglish Teachers Welcome to this week's edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we are happy to announce an upcoming webinar with the Garden Project team and a new, free online course: Core skills in your context. We also have news about ELTons 2021, including information on how to become an ELTons judge. For the classroom, we have two new blog posts packed with ideas for warmers and fillers. And finally, do you need some help with surviving online lessons? Check out Ingrid Mosquera Gende's tips.   We hope you find these resources useful. The TeachingEnglish team The Garden Project: bringing learning to life with sustainable ELT practices The Garden Project is a project-based Learning (PBL), three-level ELT course for pre-primary that adopts a sustainably hands-on approach. Students learn English by growing their very own garden in the box, documenting their learning through the wonder, observation and investigation of nature. Join us on 4 March 2021 for a webinar with the Garden Project team. Register now Six golden rules for successfully surviving an online lesson Teaching online is completely different from teaching face-to-face, isn't it? Let's find out! If you have found yourself abruptly transported to an online educational context, remember that you are an experienced teacher and you can deal with this and much more. In her latest post, Ingrid Mosquera Gende gives you some free tips from her own ten-year experience as an online university teacher. Read Ingrid's post Three great no-prep 'filler' ideas Discover three no-prep ideas for filling in those last few minutes usefully – or for starting off a class in an upbeat way. If you have a mobile phone, you have a camera, and adult learners in many contexts will have easy access to pictures that they've taken. These three activities utilise that. Read more Change the pace of your lessons in five minutes In addition to objectives, the needs of our students and materials, a well-staged lesson plan also needs to include warmers to bring students into the topic and fillers in case you find yourself a few minutes short at the end of the lesson. This post is for the teachers who need five-minute activities to integrate into their lesson plans. Find out more ELTons 2021 Have you produced an innovative English language teaching or learning product, publication or service in the last two years? Applications for ELTons 2021 are now open. Make your submission by Wednesday 10 March 2021, 23.59 UK time. And you can also apply to become an ELTons judge. Find out more Core skills in your context Understand how to expand teaching and learning programmes to embed core life skills. Take this module to see how core skills can be integrated into existing programmes with efficacy and enhanced learning outcomes. 'Core skills in your context' is a three-hour, self-study training module, which is divided into three one-hour units. Join us 1 to 12 March. Register now Contact us Connect with us © British Council The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). You have received this newsletter because you have registered for updates. If you wish to opt out of future newsletters, please unsubscribe here. Update your marketing preferences