News from IATEFL for June 2024
IATEFL Monthly webinar:
Introducing a competency framework for language learning materials writing is the topic for our June webinar and is presented by Sandy Millin
This webinar will introduce a competency framework which language teaching professionals can use in a range of different ways. The framework can be used for planning professional development and training, including identifying gaps in personal knowledge or team competencies. The framework is also designed to support professionalisation of language learning materials writing.
About the presenter: Sandy Millin is a freelance ELT trainer, consultant and methodology writer. She is proud to be an IATEFL Ambassador and is a joint events coordinator for MaWSIG. She completed her NILE MA in Professional Development in Language Education in October 2023 with Distinction.
Sandy is the creator of Take Your Time DELTA, a less stressful way to complete Cambridge DELTA Modules 1 and 3. She is the co-author of The CELTA Course Book Trainee Book and Trainer’s Manual second edition for Cambridge University Press, with Peter Watkins and Scott Thornbury. She has self-published Richer Speaking, ELT Playbook 1 and ELT Playbook Teacher Training.
She blogs at https://sandymillin.wordpress.com, where more information can also be found about all of her professional endeavours.
Date and time: 1 June 2024, 15.00 (UK time) (check the time in your location)
IATEFL 2025, Annual Conference and Exhibition
The 2025 IATEFL Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place in Edinburgh from Tuesday 8 April to Friday 11 April 2025, with pre-conference events on Monday 7 April 2025. Whilst booking is not yet open, you can start to plan your trip by visiting the website: IATEFL International Conference 2025 (iateflconference.org)
Scholarship applications for 2025 conference are closing soon!
We'd love to see you in Edinburgh next year and one of our scholarships could help get you there! Go to www.iatefl.org/scholarships to find out more.
Applications will close at 14:00 (UK time) on Wednesday 19 June 2024. If you have any questions please email [email protected]
IATEFL Inclusive Practices and SEN SIG
Book club: Teaching languages to students with dyslexia
According to the World Health Organisation, 8 to 10% of the population is dyslexic, and 15 to 20% is neurodivergent.
So, how do we tackle learning in order to include every single student successfully in the process? Join us on 3rd June at 18:00 UK Time for a riveting book club meeting with Boelo van der Pool to get some insights into an inclusive teaching approach.
Date and time: 3 June at 16:00 UK time
IATEFL Materials Writing SIG
In conversation with Penny Hands
We are delighted to have Penny Hands as our guest for our next 'in conversation with' session, who will be sharing insights and telling us about her life in editing materials. We invite participants to submit questions for Penny using this form, and we’ll add a few of our own, too. We look forward to seeing you there!
Date and time: 14 June at 11:00 UK time
IATEFL Testing, Evaluation and Assessment SIG
Equitable Assessments for Multilingual Learners: Integrating Socioculturally Responsive and Personalized Assessment Approaches
Primary and secondary schools are increasingly “superdiverse” in the U.S. and globally (Park et al., 2018; Vertovec, 2023). Students—including multilingual learners—have unique social, cultural, and educational characteristics that, instead of being discounted, might be leveraged in instruction and assessment as a means of advancing equity in education. To better assess and support the reading and literacy development of multilingual learners, we employed socioculturally responsive and personalized assessment approaches in developing a classroom assessment for formative use. In this webinar, we will demonstrate the features of our assessment design and share research findings from a usability study.
Date and time: 17 June 2024 at 17:00 (UK time)
IATEFL Business English SIG
The New World of Work and Megatrends - Old Wine in New Bottles or an Opportunity for Corporate English Training?
Join us for an interactive workshop to discuss and reflect on the new workplace megatrends and how we can incorporate them into our teaching and training practice.
Date and time: 22 June 2024, 15:00 (UK time)
Teacher/ Social Worker
6 个月I attended the webinar on "Introducing a competency framework for language learning materials writing" yesterday and it was very informative and and educative.
Assistant Professor in Department of Education, Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari Karachi Sindh Pakistan
6 个月Thanks for sharing