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Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Teacher Connect Newsletter May 2025 – Webinar, webinar-event, free resources, self-access courses, and much more!

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In this edition focusing on Understanding my learners, apply for British Council Scholarships! Register for the webinar, and online courses. Engage in the webinar-event and find out more about the word of the month.

British Council Scholarship for English Language Teachers in India- Apply now!

Are you an English teacher looking for world-leading continuing professional development opportunities?  The British Council is offering fully-funded scholarships for English teachers and teacher educators from India for the 2025-26 academic year! You can pursue an online MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the University of Portsmouth or an MSc in TESOL from the University of Stirling. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your career - last date for application is 9 May for University of Postsmouth and 23 May for University of Stirling.

Empowering teacher educators to introduce art-based translanguaging practices

How can teachers and teacher educators empower students to recognise their resources in a multilingual world? Join us on 20 May for a webinar with Lavinia Hirsu and Dobrochna Futro on why and how teacher educators should work with teachers on art-based translanguaging practices that enhance their student's learning journey. Learn about the TEMA project (Teaching English Multilingually through Art) in Vietnam and explore strategies that address issues of innovation and creativity in language learning through a multilingual framework. 

MOOC: Motivating activities for primary

This free, three-module, self-access online course focuses on engaging your primary students with fun songs, games, chants, and vocabulary activities. Explore ways to make vocabulary learning memorable by integrating effective and engaging activities into your lessons. Evaluate a series of games and understand the advantages of using interactive games in the primary classroom.  Identify techniques for adapting songs, rhymes, and chants to enhance students' learning. Enrol until 17 June.

Webinar-event: AI for inclusion

Join us on 23 May for three practical webinars focusing on how AI tools can make our classes more inclusive. Discover how AI tools can help you tailor your teaching to meet the individual needs of students in mixed-ability classrooms. Learn to create an equitable learning environment where all students are valued and supported. Explore ways to use AI to personalise learning, provide individual feedback, and foster opportunities for all your students to thrive and succeed in their learning journey.

Podcast: How can I support my own and my students' wellbeing?

In the current educational environment, students are looking to teachers for mental health support more than ever before. In this episode recorded just after the Covid-19 pandemic, explore a set of well-being activities that are still very relevant for you and your students today. Next, hear Sarah Mercer, teacher trainer, author, and researcher, discuss how classrooms can become places where mental well-being is not only maintained but even improved.

Word of the month: Digital inclusion

UN's Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) defines digital inclusion as the "equitable, meaningful, and safe access to use, lead, and design of digital technologies, services, and associated opportunities for everyone, everywhere". Register for this free, 3-module, self-paced online course and learn how to use digital tools, including AI, to find, evaluate, and create digital content and resources. Explore strategies  that promote digital inclusion and support your students' collaboration, information literacy and problem-solving skills.

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