In June 2021 schools in many countries around the world remained closed, partially closed or had adapted to a blended model. Challenges remained for teacher training to support teachers in managing remote contexts, to support new approaches to student assessment and engagement, amongst others. British Council’s New Ways of teaching: Skills teachers need in order …
British Council Cuba engaged Alan Mackenzie to participate in #InglesparaElDesarrollo, biennial conference Cuba 2021 held virtually November 9-11. This conference was part of the capacity building actions for teachers and student-teachers of EFL agreed with the ministries of education as part of the collaboration with the British Council and with the participation and support of the teacher …
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Chinese temple + Skyscraper: Photo by Arisa Chattasa on Unsplash In December 2020, British Council East Asia commissioned Alan Mackenzie to develop a detailed technical proposal for a programmatic framework shifting the strategy for English for Education Systems (EES) within the East Asia region away from providing teacher training to a delivery innovation, research and insight-led approach, …
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The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has recently acknowledged the value of formative assessment (assessment for learning) in the teaching of English from Primary Grade 3 to Secondary Grade 12. In a far-sighted and progressive policy, MOET has taken a comprehensive approach to fully integrating formative assessment practices within the national curriculum. Guidelines …
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China Research Innovation Grant It is a great honour to have been invited back for the second year as a mentor for the EVE-Africa ELTA Women’s Leadership Programme. My mentee is Akintola Iyabo Adebimpe, a teacher trainer form Nigeria. Iyabo graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Kaduna, Nigeria , in 1998 with a BA …
China Research Innovation Grant We are honoured to be the joint recipients of a Research Innovation Award by British Council, China, under the 2021-2022 English Research and Materials Development Award. Along with our partners, The Basic Education Curriculum and Teaching Material Research Center, National Institute of Education Sciences, China, we will be working towards the …
Africa ELTA Memorandum of Understanding We are delighted to announce the signing of a new 3-year Memorandum of Understanding with our strategic business partners, Africa ELTA. The aim of the agreement is to collaborate on events in Africa for promoting and supporting the professional development of African teachers of English as a foreign language, and …
Sharon Umoti Peter It was with deep sadness that I learnt of the passing of Sharon Umoti this month. Sharon was my mentee on the first year of the EVE and Africa ELTA Female leaders Mentoring Program. During the 3 months that the program took place, we learnt a great deal from each other and …
Alan Mackenzie and Alan Pulverness were in Belfast in October for the Eaquals conference… …but first we had a 5-day break in Dublin. Alan M. had never been to Ireland before, and although I’d been to Dublin many times, it was always for assessments or conferences, so I’d never seen the Book of Kells and …
Africa ELTA 5th Annual Conference Report – Aug 2021. Sarah Mount and Alan Pulverness were delighted to attend Africa ELTA’S 5th annual conference in the virtual world last weekend. An innovative approach was taken in that there were two strands to the conference – one on zoom and one on WhatsApp. There were 71 presenters …
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