TeachingEnglish teacher newsletter 17 November 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 delighted to announce the winners of our 2021 ELTons Innovation Awards, which were announced on Monday live and online. We also announce two new, upcoming webinars for teachers of Early Years and Lower Primary focused on online teaching and phonics, and invite you to join our free course: Teaching Young Learners Online. In November we mark two special times: Anti-Bullying Week and World Kindness Day, and we are pleased to bring you lesson plans for primary and secondary learners on both these themes. And finally, this week's new and featured publication is a collection of practical, teacher research stories from teacher trainers in Mexico: Champion Teachers Mexico: Stories of Exploratory Action Research in Escuelas Normales. We hope you find these resources useful. The TeachingEnglish team ELTons Innovation Awards 2021: Winners On Monday 15 November, at the first hybrid ELTons event, the winners of the ELTons Innovation Awards 2021 were announced. Among the winners are: Fiction Express, an award-winning literacy resource, which won the award for Innovation in Learner Resources; Teaching English to Pre-Primary Children, which won the Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources; and The Hands Up Project with UNRWA (Gaza), which won the Award for Local Innovation. ‌ Find out more about these and the other winners here Webinars: Teaching Early Years online and Phonics for teachers of Early Years Are you nervous about teaching Early Years (EY) students online? Do you struggle to keep your students engaged without being physically present? These webinars will give EY and even primary teachers insights into ways to encourage speaking, set up routines, use songs, rhymes, and chants, model teaching phonics, and set up pretend play activities, all while keeping EY students engaged and motivated online. Join us on Monday 29 November for these two webinars Kindness calendar November celebrates World Kindness Day. In this lesson, primary learners are introduced to the idea of a kindness calendar, and they brainstorm ideas of acts of kindness that they could do at home, at school and in the community. Learners create their own kindness calendars, writing a kind act in each day's box and decorating the calendar with illustrations. They then take these home, and at the end of the month teachers help them to reflect on how focusing on daily acts of kindness made the learners feel. Go to the lesson plan Anti-bullying Anti-Bullying Week takes place 15 to 19 November. In this lesson for teenagers, students will learn about the problem of bullies and how to behave if they are bystanders. Students discuss their own attitudes towards bullies, bullying and the role of bystanders, and read two texts. They discuss to what extent our attitudes promote or prevent bullying and, finally, prepare a poster for an anti-bullying campaign. Find out more Teaching Young Learners Online Explore how to plan accessible online lessons and assessments and how best to build relationships with young learners. On this free course, you'll explore online teaching in both theory and practice – how to plan accessible online lessons and assessments, what online safety looks like, and how best to build relationships with young learners. You'll understand how to include and engage learners online, both in synchronous and asynchronous environments. Join now Champion Teachers Mexico: Stories of Exploratory Action Research in Escuelas Normales This book is the result of twelve months of hard work by a group of teacher educators (Formadores de Inglés) from Mexico. For the first time in Mexico, teacher trainers from 'escuelas normales' of the Ministry of Public Education have undergone exploratory action research (EAR) under the guidance of experts in the field and have systematically reported their findings for this publication. Undoubtedly, their experiences will be of great interest to anyone related to the profession. Download this free publication 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

                                                           

TeachingEnglish teacher newsletter 03 November 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 delighted to announce our first hybrid ELTons event, which is taking place on 15 November. Do join us online! We also announce that registration is now open for our latest online course 'Teaching Pathways: How to teach listening'. With the the 26th UN Climate Change Conference taking place this week in Glasgow, we bring you an activity about energy and renewable resources for your primary learners, and a lesson for secondary learners about the increasing risk of extreme weather events due to climate change. This week is also International Stress Awareness Week, and our featured webinar 'Healthy bodies and minds for every child' takes a look at the importance of exercise and sport in these trying times. If you are based in the UK and work with learners moving from primary to secondary education, we are looking for 10- to 12-year-olds to take part in a new English test study. And finally, don't forget that the IATEFL YLTSIG is celebrating its Emerald anniversary with a 3-day web conference on 5–7 November.  We hope you find these resources useful. The TeachingEnglish team ELTons Innovation Awards 2021: Live online We're delighted to be able to welcome innovators and leaders from across the English language education community, and beyond, to gather again for the ELTons awards – in our first hybrid ELTons event. We warmly invite you to join us at the ELTons 2021 on Monday 15 November at 13.45 UK time. Now in their 19th year, the ELTons celebrate the most innovative ways to learn and teach English from around the world, as well as the teams behind them. Join us online Teaching Pathways: How to teach listening Learn how to design listening tasks and improve the active and effective listening skills of your students. In this practical four-week course, you will develop your understanding of how to teach listening skills effectively in the ELT classroom. You will learn how to evaluate problems associated with teaching listening, explore a range of different tasks that encourage active listening, and learn how to use a range of strategies to help your learners improve their listening. Enrol on this free course Energy and renewable resources This activity is about energy and renewable resources. It builds awareness of different energy solutions which will be necessary in the future and is aimed at learners aged ten years and up. Students learn about energy resources and play a Pelmanism game. All you need are the energy and renewable resources cards handout (free to download) and scissors. Go to the activity Storm coming! In this lesson, designed for online or face-to-face teaching, lower-secondary learners will read and listen to news reports about weather events, collaborate in groups and role play an emergency meeting. This lesson would be suitable as a supplement to a unit on weather, geography or the environment. Go to the lesson plan Healthy bodies and minds for every child In this British Council Education Exchange team webinar, you will hear from teachers from around the world discussing the role sport has played in schooling during the past year, how sport is being used to support students to reintegrate back into physical classrooms, the challenges of running sports classes during the Covid-19 pandemic and the link between sport/exercise and mental health. Watch a recording of the webinar Calling 10- to 12-year-olds to take part in a new and exciting English test study The British Council is collaborating with MetaMetrics (an expert test provider) to conduct a field study in 2022. If you are a teacher working with UK-based young learners aged 10–12 who are moving from primary to secondary school, we are looking for English students to take part in a study to improve our testing methods. Read more 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