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📢 LAST WEEK OF EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION!

ELTforum is LIVE again! Organized by SCELT - The Slovak Chamber of English Language Teachers it's now officially known as the SCELT Forum! 🎉

🐦Don't miss your chance to grab our early-bird offer for the SCELT Forum!

📅June 14–15, 2024
📍Banská Bystrica

🔝It´s going to be great! Register today: https://www.scelt.sk/scelt-forum

TEACHING FOR TOMORROW
Humanistic Values and 21st Century Challenges

A two-day conference for English language teachers, which took place in Bratislava on 23rd and 24th February, 2024.

HLT – Humanism in Language Teaching, is what we believe in when it comes to teaching languages. At the HLT.digital conference, were presented HLT practitioners who have introduced humanistic approaches to the classroom and helped to reshape the learning process with the student at the centre.

The concept of “human” is evolving beyond individuals to all living things, communities, and nature. Our planet is facing unprecedented environmental challenges, with globalization now extending far beyond travel and cultural exchange to encompass issues like climate change and migration. The world’s problems are global and we need a common language to find solutions, to help to protect what is alive.

As educators, what role do we play in navigating these challenges? What impact can we, as teachers, have on the broader narrative? Can schools serve as catalysts for positive change?

These were the critical questions we explored and discussed at our conference in February.

for more info about speakers and programme: https://thebridge.sk/en/course/teaching-for-tomorrow/

📣📣📣 Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to join the English language teaching conference - the TEACHERSˈ DAY organised by The Bridge - English Language Centre.

⏰Registration is OPEN: https://thebridge.sk/.../teachers-day-conference-for.../

Join in and get your dose of inspiration & collegial spirit 🥂🍨☕️🍮🤩🥳

“Verbal stereotypes aside, there are differences between French, Spanish, German and Japanese students. 🌍 To have a sense of where this person is ‘coming from’ is vital, in all senses and on all levels.” Wilberg, P., 1987. One to One - A Teacher's Handbook, p.71

💡 Is building rapport an essential part of every teacher’s role? Has there ever been a time when there needed to be a professional distance between you and the learner (or learners)? Did it help? In what way? Did it hinder? How so? Let us know your thoughts here.

“Hegemony of testing. The testing tail has for too long wagged the teaching dog. Testing tends to benefit the testers, not the tested.” - Alan Maley

Many students (from young learners through to adult professionals) enroll in a course where a prestigious exam is offered as the final goal (and is often sold in the package as a prerequisite for joining the course). Wasn’t testing in language learning meant to be a diagnostic tool as opposed to an objective at the end of a course?