Upcoming CPD Opportunities: Summer 2025
Upcoming CPD Opportunities: Summer 2025
TITLE: Macmillan
Back-to-school event
PRESENTERS: Allison Posey
& Laura Broadbent
DATES & TIMES: Wednesday
27th August 2025 – 11:00, 16:00 & 2130 (GMT)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: Macmillan
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
Hello dear teachers,
We don't know how you're going to feel
about this, but the new school year is just around the corner! We have an event
to help you bounce back fresh, motivated and with some brand new ideas for your
teacher toolkit on Wednesday 27th August!
There will be two 30-minute talks:
Allison Posey: Designing Truly Inclusive
Classroom Spaces
Laura Broadbent: Digital Must-haves in a
Classroom of 2025
Here's what else you can expect:
- A Virtual Goodie Bag made exclusively for
this event, including Russell's 5 principles in a printable and shareable
format.
- A Certificate of Attendance, evidencing
the time you have committed to becoming the great teacher that you are!
TITLE: Write Right for
Everyone with AI
PRESENTERS: Katherine
Reilly
DATES & TIMES: Thursday,
28th August, 2025 09:15 (GMT)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: IATEFL
MaWSIG
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
What happens when inclusive thinking meets
smart technology? This session explores how AI can support ELT materials
writers in crafting content that truly connects with today’s diverse
classrooms. We’ll examine practical ways to adapt texts, personalize tasks, and
reflect real learner experiences, all while promoting creativity, fostering
engagement, and inspiring both teachers and students alike.
TITLE: English for
Employability: Teaching Skills for the Future Workplace
PRESENTER: Colm Downes
DATES & TIMES: Thursday,
28th August 15:00 – 16:30 (JKT/BKK time; 10:00 CET)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: British
Council
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
I often hear teachers ask: "How can we
prepare our students for the real world, not just the exam room?"This is
exactly what I’ll be exploring in my upcoming webinar with EnglishScore:
English for Employability – Teaching Skills
for the Future Workforce
In this session, I’ll share how English
language teachers can go beyond language proficiency and help their learners
build essential workplace and life skills such as negotiation skills and
intercultural competence.
In the webinar I'll explore:
✅ Practical lesson ideas that
connect English with workplace skills
✅ How to build confidence,
adaptability, and collaboration in our learners
✅ Ways AI can support teachers in
assessing and developing professional communication skills
The 90 min session will finish with a 30
min live Q&A – a chance to share ideas and experiences.
TITLE: Wellbeing as a
collective responsibility: Reframing support for language teachers
PRESENTERS: Christina
Gkonou
DATES & TIMES: Saturday,
30th August, 2025 10:00 (GMT)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: IATEFL
TTedSIG
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
In recent years, the emotional wellbeing of
both students and teachers has become a growing concern in education. Yet, we
still lack a clear understanding of how the specific pressures faced by English
language teachers affect their wellbeing – and how teachers can be supported
meaningfully in both the short and long term. This talk explores key dimensions
of teacher wellbeing, drawing on recent research and practical insights to
propose how wellbeing strategies can be sustainably integrated into teacher
education, daily practice, and wider institutional frameworks.
Supporting teacher wellbeing is not solely
a personal responsibility. It is a collective and systemic endeavour that
involves teacher educators, school leaders, and policy makers working together
to create environments where teachers can thrive. By raising awareness and
embedding long-term support structures, we not only prevent stress and burnout,
but also enable teachers across diverse backgrounds and levels of experience to
teach with confidence, empathy, and resilience. The session advocates for a shift
in thinking: from treating wellbeing as an individual afterthought to making it
a central, ongoing priority in teacher development and school culture.
TITLE: Second Language
Learning and Migrants: agency, affordances and identity positions
PRESENTERS: Naeema Hann
DATES & TIMES: Saturday,
30th August 2025 – 12:00 (GMT)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: IATEFL
ESOLSIG & NATECLA
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
This event is in collaboration with NATECLA
(National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to
Adults)
Discourses in media, and to an extent in
research, assign a deficit identity to migrants especially in terms of skills
in the language of their host country. Second Language Acquisition research has
traditionally identified language users as learners, particularly in migrant
contexts. This positioning may not acknowledge their agency and the affordances
(Little & Erickson 2015).
This session explores an alternative view
of migrant identity and the role it plays in migrants’ success in acquiring the
language of their host country, based on data from a longitudinal study with
twenty-eight ESOL learners in Yorkshire. Brainstorm and ranking, questionnaires
and interviews were used to gather student and tutor perceptions of factors
affecting progress over a period of eighteen months. Data from this study
presents evidence of migrants’ agency and the affordances they create for
language learning opportunities through language use. The data also suggests
identity positions presented by respondents richer than the Ideal L2 Self
presented by Dörnyei (2009).
Respondents positioned themselves as
individuals highly motivated to learn English, evident from high levels of investment
in their learning, with a vision of an Intercultural Ideal L2 Self (IIL2S)
(Hann 2012) which included speaking English successfully. While the possibility
of an L2 self within a global identity has been presented theoretically (Ryan
2006), this paper presents empirical evidence of the role of the Ideal L2 Self
in ESOL learners’ progress with speaking skills. The implications of this
positive view of identity are explored for language learning and teaching. Among
the questions addressed are:
1. Can an IIL2S self be fostered in ESOL
learners so that it contributes to learning? If so, what role does instruction
play in the process?
2. What is the relationship between an
IIL2S and metacognitive strategies, also shown to be a significant factor in
the data?
TITLE: Revisiting BELF and
where we are now
PRESENTER: Virginia López
Grisolía
DATES & TIMES: Sunday,
31st August 2025, 15:00 (GMT)
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANISED BY: IATEFL BESIG
TYPE OF EVENT: Free
Webinar
SUMMARY
In this webinar, we will revisit the
concept of English as a Business Lingua Franca. As the world's business
landscape continues to evolve, we will explore some of BELF recent research and
what the implications are for trainers and clients alike.
By revisiting the principles of BELF and
examining its current applications, we aim to:
- Enhance our understanding of the role of
English in global business communication
- Identify strategies for effective BELF
use in diverse business contexts
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