What I learned at the SIGs event on Wednesday evening is that the ESP English for Special Purposes SIG, which is also for EAP English for Academic Purposes, is having an event closer to home in Bochum on September 9. These types of events are held all over the world, so it’s quite fortunate for […]
Another update from Cathy Duffek, our ELTAS member at iATEFL
My interest in the use of technology in teaching, led me to the session “Quick wins with technology in the BYOD language classroom”. BYOD? Bring Your Own Device. It will take me weeks to follow up on all the tips and information from this talk by Joe Dale, who apparently is quite renowned as an […]
Cathy Duffek live from iATEFL
Today is the second day of the full conference and it is amazing how many sessions are on offer. In each time slot there is always something which attracts my interest. This year’s facility, the ACC Liverpool and neighboring Jurys Inn Hotel, is a vast improvement over the venue in Brighton last year. The problem […]
ELTAS members attending the IATEFL Conference next week?
Are you lucky enough to be attending the IATEFL International Annual Conference next week? Then we would like to hear from you! We would like to keep our members updated and what better way to do this than to post your blog from the conference. Write about an interesting workshop, talk or forum with a […]
Registration now open for workshop on May 18 with Ian McMaster
Helping language learners to change their behavior and not be too authentic is the topic of Ian’s workshop. Presenting practical classroom activities, Ian will look at the key communication skills needed in business. For more information and to register click here: Workshop on helping language learners to change their behavior and not be too authentic
21C Skills Workshop with Tim Phillips
On Saturday, March 16, many of us had the pleasure to take part in the workshop on developing learner’s 21st century skills. Leading up to the event, we had done some informative posting to our growing exposure in social media on Facebook, LinkedIn and Xing. We’d mentioned the 4 Cs and what they mean to […]
Introducing Michelle and Nicole our new committee members!
At the AGM in January, all of the existing ELTAS committee members agreed to serve another year. We all enjoy working together and are a good team. We are very happy to welcome two new committee members, Michelle Kremser and Nicole Heusser. Both will be focusing on social media activities, Michelle in Xing and LinkedIn, […]
What are 21st century skills?
Written by: Nicole Heusser In today’s interconnected world, content-based knowledge of a subject is no longer enough. Yes, of course it is still important to teach our students the four “classical” skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. But in the 21st century, language mastery requires more than just vocabulary and grammar. It’s also about […]
Only 14 days until 21st century skills workshop – seats still available
Developing Learners’ 21st Century Skills with Tim Phillips We still have seats available for this workshop with Tim and sponsored by National Geographic. Make sure you secure your place now with only 14 days to go! We are all looking forward to an interesting workshop on how to develop learners’ skills in this constantly changing […]
Committee Meeting – table for 9!
What a team! It was great to get together for the first committee meeting since our AGM in January. Michelle (K) and Nicole joined us for the first time and were assigned new roles and responsibilities, more details on this in a later post. 2019 is going to be an exciting year for our members […]
Day out in Karlsruhe at LEARNTEC
Digital change effects all aspects of life and education is no exception. Digital change needs digital education, this includes imparting digital skills as well as learning with digital media. This year, over 320 exhibitors came to LEARNTEC to show educators their solutions to these digital challenges. I was lucky enough to get complimentary tickets to […]
21st Century Skills with Tim Phillips rescheduled to March 16!
We are happy to announce the Tim Phillips has fully recovered from this illness that forced him to cancel his workshop in January. He has rescheduled his workshop on Developing Learners’ 21st Century Skills to March 16th. Tim will be looking at the skills our learners require to enable them to survive and succeed in […]
AGM – the Committee has two new members!
The ELTAS Annual General Meeting was held after our workshop on the 19th January 2019. Chaired by Michelle Hunter, there were short presentations from all committee members on their role within the committee and our plans for 2019. Ingrid presented the ELTAS accounts for 2018 and all ELTAS members discharged the committee for last year. […]
First Workshop of 2019 was a great success!
Faced with a last minute change to a planned workshop with Tim Phillips (NGL) on 21st century skills, Andy Vogt-Nas stepped in to moderate an excellent interactive workshop on what to do when disaster strikes and you don’t have material to fall back on, with the title: “Oh no what a personal disaster to YESSS- […]
Change to planned workshop topic on Saturday January 19th followed by AGM
We have all experienced things not going to plan. Today, when Andy Vogt-Nas got a call from Tim Phillips (NGL) to say he was just too sick to give his workshop on Saturday, she came up with a great idea to ensure ELTAS doesn’t disappoint its members. This is an interactive workshop to find adhoc teaching solutions, […]
A very productive committee meeting in the Forum 3 cafe
On Saturday January 12, five members of the ELTAS committee met to discuss our next workshop and AGM this weekend. Half of the committee members were unable to attend due to illness or travel commitments, but we still had a very productive meeting in the Forum 3 café , a place we will go back […]
Developing Learners’ 21st Century Skills with Tim Phillips
Those of you who have been to a workshop presented by Tim Phillips know you are in for a treat, those who haven’t been to one of his workshops before, please come along. You will get lots of great ideas for the ELT classroom in 2019, there are still spaces available! Save the date! 19.01.2019 from […]
Happy 30th Anniversary Eltas!
Lots of smiles and laughter at ELTAS workshop and Xmas celebration
What a lovely way to finish off a year of successful ELTAS workshops! Geoff Tranter got us smiling and laughing out loud with his ideas on how to bring humour to the English classroom. He gave us lots of new things to try and some lesson ideas for classes in the run up to Christmas. […]
Teaching English to Sse Tschörmanns with Stefan Fodor
We had a full house at our workshop “Teaching English to Sse Tschörmans with Stefan Fodor” on October 20th. Members and guests enjoyed exploring similarities and differences in English and German. Many thanks to Stefan for sharing his insight and experience teaching both languages. Members can find Stefan’s slides in the Members only area after […]
ELTAS committee meeting – exciting plans for 2019
On Saturday, 13th October, the committee team met for the first time after the summer break. There was a lot to discuss and decide on! In November Karin and Kiara are going to attend the BESIG-conference in Iasi/Romania. I’m sure they’ll return with lots of ideas and names of speakers for future Workshops. Have you […]
