Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Monday, 24 July 2017
India Schools Week 2016
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More than 750 educators impacting 320,000 learners from over 400 schools
came together for four days to define this year’s India Schools Week.
From 28 November to 01 December 2016, Delhi was host to a ‘Learning for
Sustainable Future’ themed week, comprising workshops, plenaries and
discussions, core skills reflection, teacher conference, round table,
and the International School Award ceremony involving policy makers,
head teachers and teachers.
This video brings to you brief glimpses of all events and activities that took place during this one week. It celebrates the coming together of educators from all over India to make learning better. |
Planning teacher education programmes – panel discussion
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British Council launched the Teacher Education Planning Handbook in New Delhi on Wednesday 14 June 2017.
A discussion on teacher education took place between a panel of speakers featuring * Mr Sanjay Awathi – Member Secretary, National Council of Teacher Education * Mr AN Ramachandra – Joint Commissioner (Academic), Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti * Prof Rama Mathew, retired from Delhi University * Mrs Maya Menon, Founder Director of The Teacher Foundation, based in Bangalore, and * Mrs Kalpana Maheshwari, Head Teacher, Corporation of Chennai secondary school. The panel was chaired by Amy Lightfoot, Assistant Director English Partnerships (Academic). The discussion highlighted the need for a focus on in-school support for teachers continuing professional development, the importance of giving teachers choices with regards to teacher education opportunities available to them and how technology has an important role to play in terms of making high quality resources available |
Friday, 21 July 2017
Teachers’ perspectives on teacher education
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This video voices the opinions of ten teachers from Delhi government
schools about various aspects of teacher education, especially what
works well and what needs developing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrC7s1i-IU&feature=em-uploademail
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Planning teacher education programmes – panel discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5V4TU-etPc&feature=em-uploademail
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British Council launched the Teacher Education Planning Handbook in New Delhi on Wednesday 14 June 2017.
A discussion on teacher education took place between a panel of speakers featuring * Mr Sanjay Awathi – Member Secretary, National Council of Teacher Education * Mr AN Ramachandra – Joint Commissioner (Academic), Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti * Prof Rama Mathew, retired from Delhi University * Mrs Maya Menon, Founder Director of The Teacher Foundation, based in Bangalore, and * Mrs Kalpana Maheshwari, Head Teacher, Corporation of Chennai secondary school. The panel was chaired by Amy Lightfoot, Assistant Director English Partnerships (Academic). The discussion highlighted the need for a focus on in-school support for teachers continuing professional development, the importance of giving teachers choices with regards to teacher education opportunities available to them and how technology has an important role to play in terms of making high quality resources available |
Translanguaging in English language classrooms in India: Why, when ...
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Jason Anderson gave the plenary at the 12 International and 48 Annual
ELTAI Conference at Ernakulam, from 29 June to 1 July 2017.
Translanguaging, the integrated use of different ‘languages’ in communicative acts, is a natural and ancient phenomenon in India. While there is evidence that it is both widespread and beneficial in classrooms of other subjects, its inclusion in English language classrooms is hampered by the dominance of ‘English-only’, or ‘English-mainly’ approaches to language teaching that disseminate from a more monolingual West. But can multilingual countries like India take a different path to effective competence in the use of English? In this talk I will invite you to consider the future translingual needs of Indian learners of English and compare these to both current and potential practices in English classrooms. We will consider why both monolanguaging and translanguaging are likely to be useful to learners in the future and look at practical activities and |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w93mMJzGgnA&feature=em-uploademail
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