See all of our events for World Teachers' Day 2021
World Teachers' Day 2021 Celebrate World Teachers' Day 2021 with British Council TeachingEnglish. This year, we will be hosting eight webinars between 5th and 8th October. There will be a wide range of topics covered and a variety of expert speakers giving engaging workshops and presentations. Our webinars will last for one hour and are free of charge. Participants who attend the webinars will be receive professional development certificates to add to their portfolios. Join us from 5-8 October and celebrate World Teachers' Day! The TeachingEnglish team | |
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Looking back to look ahead; Language teaching experiences during COVID-19 - Sophia Mavridi | |
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Tuesday 05 October - 12.00pm UK The rapid transition from face-to-face to alternative ways of instruction has significantly disrupted all sectors of education including English Language Teaching. Drawing on a large-scale study on language teaching experiences during COVID-19, this session will offer in-depth insights into language professionals' perceptions, experiences, challenges, and opportunities as instruction shifted from face-to-face delivery to online. More importantly, it will look ahead and discuss how these positive and negative experiences can inform future decision-making, planning and strategy. | |
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Single Voices, Global Choices: An Online Community Project - Lesley Fearn | |
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Tuesday 05 October - 17.00pm UK There has been much research into the global value of Online Community Projects (OCPs), but little into their potential for foreign or second language teachers. This presentation provides examples from 'Single Voices, Global Choices' and explains how integrating OCPs into language curriculums can support teachers in their professional development and incite learner-centred approaches. Participants following this presentation will come away with a clearer idea of what an OCP is and how it can enrich their curriculums and empower their learners. | |
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Quizzing tools, retrieval practice and multi-modal feedback in language lessons - Joe Dale | |
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Wednesday 06 October - 12.00pm UK In this webinar, Joe Dale will showcase a variety of examples of good practice in online teaching from practising secondary school languages teachers on Twitter. He will explain ways in which teachers have dealt with life during the pandemic and show how different cross-platform tools can promote collaboration, independent learning, retrieval practice and assessment opportunities in a remote teaching and hybrid teaching context. Joe will demonstrate how easy it is to enhance learning in a purposeful way with a range of tools which are device agnostic allowing learners to practise, reflect and share the results easily. | |
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A recipe for teacher learning - Matthew Ellman | |
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Wednesday 06 October - 17.00pm UK To be worthwhile, teacher development needs to have an impact on teaching and learning. In this talk we'll look at the essential ingredients of impactful teacher development activity. If you're a teacher, you'll learn how you can make sure that the time you spend on development is productive, and make lasting changes to your classroom practice. If you're a trainer, you'll find out what you can do to ensure your training makes a difference once your trainees go back to their classrooms. | |
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Teenagers: Flow and the random factor - Joanna Gore | |
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Thursday 07 October - 12.00pm UK This session will demonstrate two approaches that stimulate teenagers' motivation to learn. Firstly, 'Flow theory', which helps us create the classroom conditions for intrinsic motivation to flourish. Secondly, 'The random factor', exploiting activities based on an absurd premise, which can take away students' fear of the wrong answer, and encourages critical and creative thinking. | |
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Using WhatsApp for interactive tasks - Jessica Mackay | |
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Thursday 07 October - 17.00pm UK As teachers, we are constantly looking for opportunities to exploit the learning potential of the tools and resources that our learners are already using. WhatsApp, or other free messaging platforms, are now almost ubiquitous in many contexts. This interactive workshop reports on a project designed to increase EFL learners' exposure to English outside class through a programme of tasks on the social media platform 'WhatsApp'. We will look at the different activities used, discuss the participation generated and the type of language produced. We'll also see how the learners' interaction in the group went beyond the tasks set by the teacher. We will also suggest tips for encouraging successful online interaction. | |
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Digital literacies - Nicky Hockly | |
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Friday 08 October - 12.00pm UK Digital literacies are the technical skills and social practices needed to effectively interact with digital technologies. This workshop looks at some of the theory underpinning digital literacies and explores how teachers can develop their learners' digital literacies (while often developing their own!). By the end of this webinar, you will have a clearer understanding of what digital literacies are, and why they are important. You will also have some practical ideas about how to develop your learners' digital literacies in class while also supporting their language learning. | |
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Eco-literacy: What? Why? And How? - Ceri Jones and Katherine Bilsborough | |
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Friday 08 October - 17.00pm UK If you are thinking, Eco-literacy! What is it? Why is it important? How can I do it? … this webinar is for you. You will leave the session with a clear understanding of what eco-literacy means, why it is important and, more importantly, how you can easily start developing your learners' eco-literacy skills … from tomorrow. | |
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