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‘Voices from Africa’ competition – Winners!

The joint competition of GISIG an YLTSIG is over and we have winners! The SIGs offered a prize of £200 to buy books for the winners of our competition. 1st prize – John Uwezo, Goma, DRC – £75 2nd prize – Joseph Kaleba, DRC – £60 3rd prize – Sarah Sanderson, Uganda – £40 Runner-up – […]

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Four Corners

GISIG Four Corners Summit – June 24, 2018

Thanks for attending! The slides of our presenters are going to be available here shortly. Jason’s slides Elli’s slides Dragana’s slides Raja’s slides In this webinar organised by IATEFL Global Issues SIG, four teachers from four countries share their experience of how they tackle global issues in the classroom. Equador: Integrating global issues creatively in […]

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Teaching global issues to teens in an engaging way

by Anastasia Khodakova Global Issues SIG Newsletter, issue 37: Dec 2017 It is not a secret that teenagers do not like being told what’s good and what’s bad. They like to decide for themselves and challenge grown-ups’ views. Then, how can we teach them sustainable development, social responsibility, equality and other important global issues? How […]

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Monthly GISIG newsletter

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‘Voices from Africa’ competition

Do you teach English in Africa? Then have a look at this competition and see if you can enter some of your learners’ work. GISIG, together with YLTSIG, are running this competition as a follow-up to their joint Pre-Conference Event in Dakar before the AfricaTESOL conference in May 2018. We want to encourage teachers to […]

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IATEFL Brighton 2018 – GISIG related Talks and Workshops

Chris Sowton: Making English work for the world’s most marginalised people Chris’ slides Linda Ruas and Julietta Schoenmann: F is for Fake: how students deal critically with post- truth Linda & Julietta’s slides Sara Bruun: Make your students interested in their future Sara’s slides Margarita Kosior: Special Days – Developing a more systematic approach to global education Margarita’s slides

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Global Issues in a nUncertain World

Global Issues in an Uncertain World

A fascinating insight into 20 years of writing about global issues in education. This volume explores four key themes explored through GISIG’s newsletters. These themes are What does it mean for a school, or classroom, to be global? How can I be a more global teacher? What role can languages play in global development? Learning […]

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GISIG is now a ‘Friend of EVE’

EVE stands for Equal Voices in ELT. It is an organisation created to recognise both gender and highly proficient speaker parity in keynotes and plenaries in ELT conferences and events worldwide. EVE website: https://evecalendar.wordpress.com EVE Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/eveELT/ EVE on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eve_elt

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AfricaTESOLPCE2018

Africa TESOL 2018 Pre Conference Event

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Cinema Inspirations Competition

IATEFL GISIG and MaWSIG invite competition entries for the project ‘Cinema Inspirations’. Population growth, global warming, disappearing species, human rights … There are many challenges, trends and pressing concerns facing humanity today.The ‘Cinema Inspirations’ project aims to create a bank of freely accessible ELT materials based on films related to these global issues. Submit an […]

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