During the recent IATEFL conference in Harrogate, the media team interviewed a number of delegates around key ELT topics, including sustainability. The team noted that definitions of sustainability differed, and a large percentage of people struggled or were uncomfortable discussing sustainability on camera. This was quite a surprise, and in this conversation, Anca and Chris will drill down into the interface between ELT and sustainability. The conversation will be free-form but have five distinct sections. 1 The background – the IATEFL questions about sustainability – a look at numbers and responses. 2 Discussion – around the motives for the teachers’ reactions to the questions. 3 Discussion - what is sustainability in ELT – both in terms of direct environmental impacts but also more broadly across the community in terms of, for example, professional development, materials design, and the role of technology. We’ll look at capacity-building, localisation, and decentring amongst other things. 4 Discussion - the challenges around discussing and implementing environmental and broader sustainability in ELT. 5 Discussion – some ways of overcoming the challenges, including some practical ideas for the classroom, and beyond, into the broader institution.

In this webinar, you'll learn about strategies to build students' confidence in exam classrooms. The focus is on learner agency, generating a positive attitude towards making mistakes, and the potential link between one's accent and self-perception. Our presenter will offer engaging ways to talk about these issues and activities to try out in the classroom. The webinar is aimed at teachers teaching B2 First for Schools to C2 Proficiency.

Despite in-depth training sessions, cutting-edge technology, and the much-acclaimed promise of teaching students anywhere in the world, teachers who encounter teaching kids and teens online for the first time sometimes think that it is a meagre substitute to traditional, in-person teaching. But, what if the constraints unique to this digital medium were not a disadvantage to learners and teachers, but instead a unique opportunity that could yield even better results than in physical classrooms? What if deeper forms of concentration, increased levels of practice and above all, better learning were not just possible, but are already happening, and will only grow in the near future? During this webinar, come discover the hidden potential of this medium, how it can foster accelerated language learning for younger learners, and learn practical examples that you can use right away in your own teaching.

Did you miss any of the Advancing Learning Academic Programme in the last year? Well, just in case you did, we will be hosting an event to help you catch up with your teacher development before the current season comes to an end! In this 90-minute live event, we will be giving you 30 of some of the best ideas from our wonderful speakers throughout the last season, split into 3 main segments: Young Learners, Teenagers and Young Adults.

This one day webinar event will feature three webinars with ELT experts from around the world. Attend up to three webinars on June 8 from 10:00 to 13:30 (UK time). All three webinars focus on how teachers can motivate their learners. The webinars are for teachers of primary, secondary and young adult English language learners.

In this webinar, you'll learn about strategies to build students' confidence in exam classrooms. The focus is on learner agency, generating a positive attitude towards making mistakes, and the potential link between one's accent and self-perception. Our presenter will offer engaging ways to talk about these issues and activities to try out in the classroom. The webinar is aimed at teachers teaching B2 First for Schools to C2 Proficiency.

The 8th annual, free online Future of English Language Teaching Conference includes key plenaries by Claudia Ferradas and Chris Roland alongside various breakout sessions.

This webinar will help teachers to support their learners when navigating common reading Including accessing academic language, jargon and picking out key points in a text. This session will help liven up classes and ensure learners feel confident about their reading skills.

Resistance to online synchronous and asynchronous learning has been an issue for those forced into sudden change. However, online, blended and hybrid learning (both synchronous and asynchronous) is here to stay. As an inspector and as a teacher trainer, I have had the opportunity to observe many classes and I will be sharing my reflections. The session will develop ways that online platforms and tools can be used to humanise online teaching i.e. how to make it learner-led, putting the learner at the heart of the process. I will consider and review good teaching techniques in an online context, how to set up tasks and activities to engage and motivate learners, and how to involve learners in a continuous humanistic assessment process to improve their performance in a learning-centred context. Teaching and learning online can be carried out in a safe, interactive and enjoyable atmosphere whilst still ensuring quality language teaching and supporting learners in achieving results.

As we teach, learn, work, and interact more online and with our devices, it has become increasingly apparent that there is a gap in the digital literacy skills of many of our adult learners. These skills have become crucial not only in navigating the day-to-day, but also in achieving success academically and in the workplace.  This webinar will focus on activities for adult ESL students to help develop essential digital literacy skills in areas such as privacy and security, managing your digital footprint, online etiquette, and tips for online or hybrid classes. Using examples from the new edition of  Stand Out, we will discuss how to seamlessly incorporate digital literacy skills into ESL instruction.

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is spreading rapidly worldwide. In Taiwan, over one thousand primary and secondary schools have been implementing or experimenting with CLIL courses since 2016, but they have lacked a valid assessment tool to measure students’ learning progress and promote effective learning. This webinar will present how the LTTC developed appropriate assessment tools for CLIL programs through cross-curricular collaboration. Exemplary listening and speaking assessments will be used to demonstrate how language and content learning objectives can be fulfilled without compromising the depth of content knowledge. At the end of the presentation will be a Q&A session.

Join us on June 20 for four webinars about inclusion in the ELT classroom.

Do you often ask yourself 'How can I make exam preparation more exciting?' or 'How can I include everything in my lessons? Then this webinar is for you! Covering the four skills, we'll look at motivating activities which you can easily build into your lessons to help learners prepare for these exams. Get some excellent teaching tips from an experienced teacher trainer and Cambridge English exams teacher. This webinar is aimed at teachers teaching young learners from 7 to 12 years old.

The negative environmental impact of the global ELT community and the opportunities we have in climate change education have been moving up our agenda in recent years. But are the many initiatives that we are putting into place enough to make any real difference? This webinar will look at some of the issues.

Do you often ask yourself 'How can I make exam preparation more exciting?' or 'How can I include everything in my lessons? Then this webinar is for you! Covering the four skills, we'll look at motivating activities which you can easily build into your lessons to help learners prepare for these exams. Get some excellent teaching tips from an experienced teacher trainer and Cambridge English exams teacher. This webinar is aimed at teachers teaching young learners from 7 to 12 years old.