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CREATIVITY FOR CHANGE IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Call for Papers: Drama in Education Days 2021

4/8/2021

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cfp_die_days_2021_english.pdf
File Size: 55 kb
File Type: pdf
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Exploring Teacher Creativity through Duoethnography and Reflection

7/12/2020

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An article by the C Group member Peter Brereton and Shoko Kita exploring their understandings and experiences of teaching creativity is in the new Teacher Development Academic Journal from IATEFL's TDSIG.

Click on the link below to read it: 


https://tdsig.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TDAJ-V1N1-BreretonKita.pdf
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The Passing of Paul Davis

5/21/2020

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A very, very sad day... Paul Davis, a Senior Pilgrims trainer and author of many influential books, passed on 6th May in Cambridge, where he lived. Paul was a beautifully eccentric soul, a brilliant mind, a maverick, as kind and generous as he was mischievous, and one heck of a trainer. A(nother) HUGE chunk of Pilgrims (and the whole ELT world) gone. He will be sorely missed. The Pilgrims community is grieving his loss and gathers around our friend and colleague Hania, Paul's longtime partner.

Chaz Pugliese

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Developing expertise through experience

4/21/2020

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This is just to remind C Group members that they can access free-of-charge the British Council publication, Developing Expertise Through Experience.  Click on the image to be directed to the British Council page:
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The link will take you to a page where you can access:

~ Developing Expertise Through Experience.  (the book)

~ Developing Expertise Through Experience: Ideas for continuing professional development. 


The book has attracted considerable interest in the profession.
​14 of the 20 contributors are members of the C group.
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MATSDA/Aston University                                Materials Development Workshop

2/12/2020

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Brian Tomlinson and Hitomi Masuhara

Friday July 3rd to Sunday July 5th
Aston University, Birmingham

Developing Materials Which Match What We Know About How Languages Are Best Acquired
Programme:
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Friday July 3rd: 17.00-20.00
Input sessions with Brian and Hitomi

Saturday July 4th: 09.30-16.30
Developing units of material + feedback from Brian and Hitomi

Sunday July 5th: 09.30- 16.00
Monitoring and presentation of material

Fees:
(to include all sessions + lunch on Saturday and Sunday and refreshments on all three days):

Non-members: £160
MATSDA members: £130
Students: £120
Contact Brian Tomlinson at 
brianjohntomlinson@gmail.com 
to apply for a workshop place and for information about payment of fees.
Recommended Hotels:

1 Britannia Hotel (New Street, Birmingham B2 4RX  https://www.britanniahotels.com/hotels/the-britannia-hotel-birmingham 

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Conference Aston Hotel (on-campus) https://www.hotelscombined.com/Hotel/Conference_Aston_Hotel.htm?gclsrc=aw.ds&=&gclid=Cj0KCQiA7OnxBRCNARIsAIW53B9QQTGe43ZH9vuNX-MfbdSE_q1_TLMq0PX_CgPOuRmkNAV6XgE5CMsaAhgBEALw_wcB
SEE YOU IN JULY
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Storytelling for Diverse Voices with David Heathfield

12/28/2019

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Join us on 24 January 2020 at 12:00pm UK time for our webinar 'Storytelling for diverse voices' with David Heathfield and Alla Göksu.
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Date: 24 January 2020

Time: 12:00pm UK time (what time is this where you are?)

About the webinar
When we share a folk story from a minority culture, students with roots in that culture sense that they are included and their heritages are esteemed. Through storytelling students grow in resilience and self-esteem, find their own unique voices, feel encouraged to tell their own personal stories and develop as autonomous learners. 
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In this inclusive workshop, you will:
  • respond creatively to a folk story told by David and share folk stories you know
  • consider how teachers telling stories from their students’ heritage cultures can lead to students themselves sharing stories in and outside school
  • discover more about the concept of learner autonomy and about storytelling as an appropriate tool to implement this concept through the example of a project Alla Göksu has initiated at IGS Kronsberg, a secondary school with a culturally diverse student population in Hannover, Germany
  • learn about the impact storytelling can have on school students from diverse cultural and social backgrounds with different abilities and dispositions towards learning 
  • find out how storytelling can initiate a self-determined learning process among these students and develop their skills as autonomous learners

Register for the webinar


About the speakers
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David Heathfield is a freelance storyteller, teacher and teacher trainer. He is the author of Storytelling With Our Students: Techniques for Telling Tales from Around the World and Spontaneous Speaking: Drama Activities for Confidence and Fluency, both published by DELTA Publishing. He is a member of The Creativity Group.

Alla Göksu enjoys teaching students from diverse cultural heritages and with different dispositions towards learning at a comprehensive school in Lower Saxony, Germany. She is a member of the school leadership team, an expert in learner autonomy and has been a speaker at IATEFL and Nordic Conferences.

Find out more about inclusive practices around the world in our free publication: Creating an inclusive school environment
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'Spontaneity: The elephant in the classroom' with Adrian Underhill

12/28/2019

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Planning lessons is a well-known preoccupation in ELT. Yet teachers also realize that much of what is best in the class happens spontaneously in response to the moment. Planning and Preparation are well documented in our methodology. Yet spontaneity has no discourse, is not researched, and remains an undiscussed skill in teacher development.

This webinar will:
1. Examine the concept that a vital part of enacting any plan with professional artistry lies in developing the human creative capacity for spontaneity
2. Illustrate activities that enable participants to identify their own experiences of spontaneity in teaching
3. Provide a forum for live discussion and online responses
4. Investigate ways that participants can explore this further through their own practice



For more information about this event and our speaker, visit the events page
When is the webinar?
Saturday 4th January 2020 3:00pm - 4:00pm UK time


How to register
To register for this event please follow the link:
http://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/spospontaneity-the-elephant-in-the-classroom/event/registration.html


Please note: registration does not guarantee you a place at the webinar. Places in the room are limited and virtual seats will be allocated to the first 500 participants attending on the day.


How do I check the time in my local area?
The event time is in UK GMT time, to check the time in your location please look at the world clock.


More information
To find the latest information about our webinar programme, please visit our website.
For more information about Adobe Connect, take a look at our Participant's Guide.
 
We hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing you online!
IATEFL Team


International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
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commemorating, remembering and honouring Jim Wright

11/20/2019

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Dear Friend

You may have heard the sad news …Jim Wright is no longer with us.
It is a great loss to us all and it fills us with immense sadness
 
I would like to commemorate, remember and honour Jim in HLT.
The December issue is virtually closed and it would be very short notice to ask you to contribute a piece remembering Jim. I also understand you may need some time before you are able to write your contribution.
 
So I will put together a text In Memoriam to be published in the December issue.
 
I would like to invite you to contribute a text remembering Jim, to be published in the February issue of HLT.
 
I am aware some of you may have left their messages on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/JimPilgrims
but one does not exclude the other.
 
What I have in mind is a longer text, up to  500 words long  which talks about Jim as person, boss, friend, colleague, remembers a story or anecdote involving Jim or other. If you wish to write a poem or make a collage of images, it is fine too.
 
I am aware I may not reach out to everyone so do pass on the information  to other people you think would like to contribute.
 
I look forward to hearing from you
 
Hania Kryszewska
hania.kryszewska@pilgrims.co.uk

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Clowning Around: Adding Spontaneity to Training

11/2/2019

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The C Group members
Adrian Underhill and Alan Maley 
put spontaneity on the training agenda:


​www.elgazette.com/clowning-around-adding-spontaneity-to-training/

​el.gazette 

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Developing expertise through experience: Ideas for continuing professional development

11/2/2019

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The e-file 'Developing expertise through experience: Ideas for continuing professional development' accompanying the latest BC book publication 'Developing expertise through experience' has just been launched.
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Both book and e-file can be downloaded for free from this link:

englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/continuing-professional-development/teacher-educator-framework/taking-responsibility-own-professional-development/developing-expertise-through-experience
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