About the event
This one day webinar event featured three webinars with ELT experts from around the world. All three webinars focus on policies and practices that are important to English teachers nowadays. The webinars are for teachers of primary, secondary and young adult English language learners.
This mini-event took place on 27 July 2023.
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About the webinars
Session 1: E-safety - raising awareness in the classroom
Date:
27 July
Time:
10:00am. See what time this is in your location
Duration:
1 hour
Speaker:
Maria Jose Galleno
Session information:
Online safety has become of great concern to parents and teachers alike. We all want our children to be safe, but are we doing enough? Is there something else that we can be doing to ensure our kids become safe online? Join me in this webinar and we will explore different aspects to bear in mind as teachers but also activities we can use in the classroom to raise awareness and make our students safe and confident online.
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Session 2: The role of workers' representation in English language teaching
Date:
27 July
Time:
11:15am. See what time this is in your location
Duration:
1 hour
Speakers:
Stuart G Anderson and Kevin Thomson
Session information:
This talk will consider the role that staff representatives and trade unions can play in supporting workers in ELT at both a collective and individual level. It will argue that staff representatives have a role to play in offering pastoral care to workers in addition to giving legal advice and negotiating pay and conditions for workers with management. Additionally, we will argue that having democratically elected staff representatives should be viewed as something positive by employers.
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Session 3: Empowering learners through sustainable development goals
Date:
27 July
Time:
12:30pm. See what time this is in your location
Duration:
1 hour
Speakers:
Cristiana Osan and Teo Naiba
Session information:
Why do we need to include sustainable development goals in our English lessons? This webinar will introduce the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations and explain the reasons why and how they can be included in lessons. We will also look at how to create and adapt engaging materials that include sustainable development goals, and give tips on how to use them effectively to empower learners to be change-makers. Finally, we hope you will share with us ideas about activities you have tried and/or want to try.
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About the speakers
Maria Jose Galleno has been teaching English since 2003, an educational technologist since 2017 and she is also a British Council online moderator and online material writer. She is very much interested in the application of technology in the classroom with a meaningful purpose. She holds an MA in Digital Technology and Communication and Education from the University of Manchester and another MA in TESOL Teacher Education from the same university.
Stuart Anderson has worked in ELT for over 25 years as a teacher, manager and trade union rep, he has worked in Spain, England, Scotland and Libya. He is currently the Chair of the British Council European Works Council and President of the British Council Madrid City Centre Works Council. He also works with the Teaching Federation of Spain's largest trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO).
Kevin Thomson has worked in ELT since 1990 as a teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer and union rep. He is the President of the Works Council at the British Council Barcelona Teaching Centre and Trade Union Delegate for the CCOO Union at the British Council in Spain.
Cristiana Osan became a DELTA-certified teacher educator after having worked as a teacher for 11 years in Romania. For the last 15 years, she has worked as a teacher educator, a trainers' trainer, a mentor, an online moderator, an examiner for international certificates and a materials writer, thus collaborating in various projects with thousands of teachers around the world. Climate Action in Language Education is one of the most recent projects, both as a course developer and as a moderator.
Teo Naiba lives and works in ClujNapoca, Romania. She has been teaching English for about 20 years and became a teacher educator in 2007. She started working as an emoderator for British Council in 2011 and later on, became a lead moderator. This gave her the opportunity to work on many projects with teachers all over the world. She created teaching materials on climate topics and, most recently, she has been a moderator for the Climate Action in Language Education online course.
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