Category: Events

Well, we aren’t actually going to this one and if you haven’t already planned to go yourself, you probably aren’t going either. However, we feel the need to mention it because IATEFL is by far our favourite conference… it is great because it much more has a very healthy feel of peers coming together to share ideas and just hang out together together… often with a drink in hand (we’re talking about the evenings here). Hopefully, we’ll get there next year. There are lots of recorded sessions, too, so we recommend going to their site and experiencing as much as you can from your living room.

IATFEFL site.

This webinar is offered by Macmillan and is free to attend. It is aimed at English language teachers and professionals of all levels.

Description

“They should have learned study skills in high school.” Yes-but what if they didn’t? University students sometimes arrive with brain power and drive, but without the organisation and habits necessary for academic success. Dorothy will demonstrate useful techniques for teaching and practicing academic study skills to help make students better at their most important university tasks – studying and learning.

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About Dorothy Zemach

Dorothy E. Zemach taught ESL for over  18 years, in Asia, Africa, and the US. She holds an MA in TESL from the School for International Training in Vermont, USA. Now she concentrates on writing, editing, and publishing ELT materials and textbooks and conducting teacher training workshops. Her areas of specialty and interest are teaching writing, teaching  reading, business English, academic English, testing, and humor. She is a frequent plenary speaker at international conferences, and a regular blogger  for Teacher Talk at www.azargrammar.com.

As far as recent publishing projects go, Dorothy is the series consultant for the Skillful series and one of the authors of the new edition of the Mind Series, a four-skills coursebook with an innovative and highly practical “life skills” strand that helps students connect the classroom to different  areas of their lives.

TESOL 2015 Cometh!

TESOL’s International Convention and English Language expo is a matter of weeks away and we couldn’t be more excited that this year it is being held on our home turf of Toronto! From March 26^th to 28^th at the Metro Convention Centre, thousands of ESL teaching professionals will come together to share, learn and network.

With all the energy we are saving from not having to travel to TESOL this year, we decided against sitting back. Instead we are putting the saved energy into making this our most eventful TESOL ever including an awesome booth with some great brand new and very cool publications, special promotions, great giveaways and some not-to-be-missed presentations.

Come Visit Our Booth!

In fact, you will have to visit our booth to see the new publications we have on offer (but here’s a hint: some great new teacher development and EAP titles) as well as to find out the promotions we have. We will tell you that we have awesome gift bags for the first 350 people who sign up for our eNewsletter (if you are already on our mailing list – and you probably are if you are reading this – just update/confirm your information and you get a gift bag). These bags are gifts in themselves, but they are filled with free magazines, stationery, EnglishCentral.com access codes and more. Also, some of our authors will be on hand and will be happy to chat with and give insight into their books. We will be hard to miss, but our booth number is 1209.

Come to One (or all) of Our Presentations

We have been getting increasingly great turnouts for our presentations over the past few years, and if you haven’t been to one yet, now is a great time to make a change; we have something for every area of interest: EAP, General English, using online video and exam prep. Details are below.

Increasing Motivation, Confidence, and Communicative Competence with Authentic Video

Thursday, March 26^th

9:30 am – 10:15 am

Convention Center – 205B

In this presentation, the presenter takes a look at EnglishCentral.com, an online learning platform featuring thousands of authentic and current video clips. Participants explore the various features of this powerful learning tool and discover how effective it is in building confidence, increasing motivation and improving communicative competence.

Life Skills: What They Are and How to Teach Them

Thursday, March 26^th

1:00pm – 1:45 pm

Convention Center – 204

Recently, many are advocating integrating work on life (or “soft” or “21^st Century”) skills into the language classroom. In this session, participants look at what life skills are and how they can be tied to language work to help our students get ready for the world that awaits them.

EAP Priorities: Critical Thinking, Specific Subskills, Context or Pretty Pictures?

Friday, March 27^th

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

Convention Center – 801A

With the growing number of glossy resources being published for the EAP classroom, it is becoming a more difficult job to decide on what to use with our students. Which priorities really are important and how well do they get addressed? What is critical thinking anyway? Let’s discuss (and evaluate)!

 

Ready for Teaching IELTS: Tips and Insights

Saturday, March 28^th

10:30 am – 11:15 am

Join Christien Lee, experienced author and test preparation teacher, in this session where he shares the insights he has gained from teaching IELTS over the past decade. Whether you are an experienced IELTS instructor or thinking of becoming one, this session will help you to help your students.

 

Visit the convention site.

Join a selection of ELT authors including Gabriel Diaz Maggioli, Viv Lambert, Jeanne Perrett and Ola Refaat for our Young Learner Literacy Day – an entire day of talks dedicated to helping you in your primary and pre-primary classroom.

This is a free online event being held on March 18, 2015

Learn more and register here

 

Need ideas on getting your students excited to learn? Join Beyond author Rebecca Robb Benne for a webinar all about motivating  teenage students. The webinar will discuss using student-generated content, teaching with puzzles and quizzes, and changing the pace of your classroom with stories, cinematic listening, and songs.

The webinar is free and will be held on February 11, 2015 at 3:00 PM (GMT)

Learn more and register here

We will be attending the ITBE Conference in Naperville, Illinois, February 27-28. If you are an Illinois teacher and you are also attending the conference, we hope you will stop by our booth in the exhibitors’ area to browse our titles and say hello!

Conference website.

So much on sale, so little time! December 18th to 23rd, 2014.

Download the sale flyer.

The full sale is available in person at our Toronto showroom. However, if you are not able to come to the showroom, a 20% discount will be applied to all web orders placed during the holiday sale (you won’t see the discount in your cart, but it will be applied when the order is processed. If you would like to take advantage of some of the “These just became old editions” or “we have too many of these” sale items, please call or email to place your order.

The Macmillan Education Online Conference returns for a fourth year running, bringing you 5 days of talks to inspire your teaching and support your professional development.

Featuring 12 talks from ELT experts and authors including Steve Taylore-Knowles, Jill Leighton and Adrian Underhill, and 4 interactive Google Hangouts, our 2014 event promises to be better than ever!

All conference delegates will receive a certificate of attendance, plus a FREE Sherlock Holmes Graded Reader from our brand-new eBooks store after the event.

Watch our trailer on YouTube and join in the conversation at #MEOC2014.

DELTA Publishing (which is distributed in the USA and Canda by English Central) is offering a series of exciting webinars with top authors this fall. Webinars include:

• Teaching Unplugged: 50-free with Luke Meddings
• Storytelling with our Students: Techniques for Telling Tales from Around the World with David Heathfield
• Pronunciation for Listeners with Mark Hancock
• Going Mobile with Nicky Hockly and gavin Dudeney
• Teaching Pronunciation: Challenges and Opportunities with Jonathan Marks

Go to DELTA’s website for more details, dates and to register.

Good to know: if you can’t make the times, recordings of the webinars will be posted to DELTA’s site a day or two after!

 

Carrie Purcell wil be heading out to Albany for this year’s NYS Conference. The conference is November 14th – 15th at the Albany Hilton. Be sure to stop by to say hello to Carrie and check out all the great new resources we have.

For more information on the conference, go to NYS TESOL’s website.