Upcoming CPD Opportunities: Winter 2024-2025
Upcoming CPD Opportunities: Winter 2024-2025
Here is my early Christmas present to all
you ELTers!
This is now the 6th seasonal
collection of links to ELT events. I started these to help me keep track all
the CPD opportunities available. As it seemed useful, I decided to share and
the response has been great – thank you for all your support!
I update the posts regularly but – as ever - if I’ve missed anything you think might be useful, please let me know in the comments.
TITLE: Fostering Little
Innovators: Creativity in Early Years and Primary
PRESENTERS: Cherie
Umagiliya
DATES & TIMES: Wednesday
15 January 2025, 16:00pm
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: Trinity
College London
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
Creativity in Early Years and Primary
education is about allowing children to see and shape the world in their own
way. This webinar will provide practical, easy-to-implement strategies to spark
curiosity and encourage creative thinking in young learners.
We’ll explore inquiry-based learning,
guided play, and open-ended activities to empower students to take charge of
their learning. Participants will also discover how creativity supports
whole-child development, including confidence, critical thinking, and
social-emotional growth.
This interactive session will leave you
with strategies to foster creativity in diverse classrooms and tips to nurture
your own creative practices as a teacher.
TITLE: IX Multilingual
Teachers’ Day, Barcelona
PRESENTERS: Various, see
programme
DATES & TIMES: Saturday,
18th January, 2025 – 9-14h (CET, Spanish time)
LANGUAGE: Catalan,
English, French, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin & Spanish
ORGANISED BY: EIM (School
of Modern Languages), University of Barcelona
TYPE OF EVENT: Face-to-face
event, registration €16
SUMMARY
The 9th edition of the 'Jornades
Multilingües' will take place on Saturday, 18 Jan, 2025. This event offers 12
workshops and 2 plenaries in 7 different languages (Catalan, English, Italian,
Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish and French). As well as sharing up-to-date and
innovative techniques for classroom practice, this is a unique opportunity to
meet and share ideas with teachers of other languages. Previous editions of the
conference have been a great success with attendees, who appreciate both the
diversity and specialisation of the talks and the opportunity to find the
common interests that unite us as teachers.
TITLE: LASIG: Autonomy Exchange:
Insights & Practice for English Teachers
PRESENTERS: TBC
DATES & TIMES: Sunday,
19th January, 2025 – 11:00 (UK time)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: IATEFL LA
(Learner Autonomy) SIG
TYPE OF EVENT: Online
event. Free for IATEFL members, 5 GBP for non members.
SUMMARY
This online sharing-caring session aims to
bring together English teachers around the topic “Learner Autonomy” by
discussing thought-provoking quotes on autonomy, sharing personal experiences,
and exchanging best practices. This collaborative space fosters the sharing of
teaching materials and innovative ideas to help teachers support their students
in taking ownership of their own learning.
TITLE: TEASIG webinar
anniversary online event 2015-2025
PRESENTERS: Hosted by Neil
Bullock, Anna
Soltyska and Reshmi Murali
DATES & TIMES: Wednesday,
22nd January - 17:00 (UK time)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: IATEFL TEA
(Testing, Evaluation & Assessment) SIG
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
The first TEASIG webinar took place on 7
January 2015 via Adobe Connect and attracted 45 participants. Since that date,
TEASIG has hosted more than 65 sessions, and welcomed numerous speakers and
over 5,000 attendees from all over the world.
To celebrate 10 years of TEASIG webinars,
on 22 January 2025, we are organizing a special online event where we will be
looking back on the past decade together with our guests, including former
speakers, friends and collaborators. We will talk about what TEASIG means to
teachers and testers, how the TEASIG webinar series has helped to spread
language assessment literacy within and beyond the IATEFL community, and even
recall some humorous anecdotes from our online encounters.
TITLE: BESIG: Point of
Information! Using Debate for Pre-Service Learners
PRESENTER: Annie Heringer
DATES & TIMES: Saturday,
January 25th - 15:00 to 17:00 (UK time)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: IATEFL BE
(Business English) SIG
TYPE OF EVENT: Online
event. Free for members of IATEFL, Non member price: 15 GBP
SUMMARY
Preparing for the world of business means
mastering some pretty advanced speaking skills in English: making persuasive
arguments, defending a position and tactfully proposing alternatives. Apart
from role-plays, how can pre-service learners practice using this type of
language? Debating is a fun, structured way to develop critical thinking skills
and practice public speaking. It teaches learners to listen carefully, examine
issues from multiple perspectives and formulate an effective response quickly.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to lead
a debate for a small-sized group of learners in the British Parliamentary
style, which favors logical arguments over rhetorical flair. You'll also be
introduced to debating-practice activities that can be done with any amount of
learners, developing skills that are transferable in nearly every job and help
boost the confidence of any English learner.
TITLE: “Do, Be, Have –
they’re all we need!” A spotlight on the Three Operator Model
PRESENTERS: Christopher
Walker
DATES & TIMES: Tuesday,
28th January 2025 - 16.00 (London time)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: Modern
English Teacher
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
We’ve all experienced the same thing – our
students throw up their hands and say, “How can I learn all 36 tenses in
English?!” From past perfect continuous to the passive voice, there’s a lot to
cover, and it can feel overwhelming for both teachers and students.
In an article in Modern English Teacher in
November 2023, Christopher Walker explained how you can take a completely
different approach, and look at the English verb system in terms of its three
principle operators – do, be, and have.
In this interactive webinar, we’ll look at
the Three Operator Model, and we’ll compare it to the way that course books
treat troublesome areas of grammar such as a short past simple action
interrupting a long past continuous action. If we embrace the Three Operator Model,
we might never have to hear our students complain about the weight of English
grammar again!
TITLE: Educast
International 3rd Online Conference 2025
PRESENTERS: Various – see programme
DATES & TIMES: Friday 7th February, 07:00 – Saturday 8th February, 19:00 (CET)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: Educast
TYPE OF EVENT: Online
event
SUMMARY
Educast's International Conference 2025 is
a premier gathering of educators, policymakers, and industry leaders dedicated
to revolutionizing the landscape of education. As the world rapidly evolves, so
too must our educational systems to meet the challenges and opportunities of
the 21st century.
This conference aims to explore the
transformative potential of emerging technologies, such as EdTech and AI, in
reshaping education. By harnessing the power of these advancements, we can
create more personalized, engaging, and effective learning experiences for
students of all ages.
Join us as we delve into the latest trends
and innovations in education, discuss the challenges and opportunities facing
educators today, and explore strategies for implementing cutting-edge
technologies in the classroom. Together, let's shape the future of education
and create a brighter world for learners everywhere.
TITLE: Global Teachers’
Festival
PRESENTERS: Various (see
programme)
DATES & TIMES: Monday,
10th February – Friday, 21st February, 2025
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: Macmillan
Education
TYPE OF EVENT: Free online
event
SUMMARY
Welcome to the 5th annual Global Teachers’
Festival from Macmillan Education! Boy oh boy, have we cooked up something very
special for you this year…
With 21 talks delivered by 25 international
speakers, this year’s programme is our most eclectic and unique so far with
topics like understanding the iGeneration, board design, conversation skills,
critical reading, neurodiversity, AI tools review, the K-12 language learning
journey, characters & colour in learning and loads more! Join us from 10th
to 21st February 2025 for THE annual online event of the year for teachers of
English.
TITLE: TEASIG: Testing
language learners’ multimodal skills: why, what and how?
PRESENTERS: Tineke
Brunfaut, Judit Kormos
DATES & TIMES: Tuesday,
18th February 2025 - 17:00 (UK time)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: IATEFL TEA
SIG
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
Language use in today’s world is vastly
multimodal, not least because of technological advancements. For example, while
watching TV or YouTube, we may simultaneously be listening to speakers, see
their body language, look at the video footage and visuals, read phrases
highlighting key info, and then text a friend about what we saw. Essentially,
effective communication in social, educational and professional contexts
nowadays requires multimodal literacy. It is therefore important that learners
are given opportunities to develop their multimodal literacy and that teachers
can evaluate learners’ progress and abilities in this area.
In this webinar, we will share examples of
two types of multimodal integrated test tasks, which we developed and
investigated for use in English language classrooms. We will provide tips on
how such tasks can be made and show how learner performances can be marked. Our
materials will be freely available to webinar participants.
TITLE: English UK ELT
Conference 2025
PRESENTERS: Various
DATES & TIMES: Friday,
28th Feb 2025 09:00 - Saturday, 1st Mar 2025 17:30 (GMT)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: English UK
TYPE OF EVENT:
Face-to-face conference in London, UK. Prices start from 105GBP
SUMMARY
The English UK ELT Conference is our
largest annual gathering of ELT academic staff. Join us to discuss best
practice in ELT management and teaching.
Book for both days or select the day that
best suits your interests and needs. The programme on Friday will focus on
academic management. On Saturday it will concentrate on teaching practice.
Micheal Rosen returns
We are delighted to have poet and
children's author Michael Rosen back for the second year in 2025. Michael gave
the closing talk on the first day of the conference in 2024, entertaining
academic managers in the audience by analysing the grammar of the opening pages
of his iconic picture book We're Going on a Bear Hunt and with stories of
learning French through rude songs and family holidays.
In 2025, Michael will give the closing talk
on day two of the conference, allowing those attending the teaching practice
day to hear from him.
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