Home & Shelter Issues Month so far… Homelessness has been a recurring topic this month, as in this poignant 4:30 clip about a poet, befriended on the streets of Sao Paolo, who finds home and shelter in a deep sense after nearly 35 years living on his urban “island”. See video and full […]
About Hajba László
László Hajba is a freelance teacher and materials writer based in Budapest, Hungary. Besides being a teacher of English and Hungarian as a foreign language he is also interested in using ICT, video games and other digital technologies in education, particularly tablets and smartphones.Author Archive | Hajba László
Home and Shelter Issues Month: How You Can Participate – SHARE HERE!
How you can participate October 2014 is IATEFL Global Issues SIG special event – Home and Shelter Issues Month! For the second year in a row, we are holding a month-long online event. This is an asynchronous event, developed with the aim of sharing ideas about teaching English with a conscience, this year through the […]
Face to face with a lost tribe
The clip shows that a previously isolated indigenous people from the Amazon has come face to face with a settled community of villagers for the first time. The lesson talks more generally about the risks posed to these peoples by the increasing encroachment of globalised civilisation.
Manchester PCE – 10 April, 2015 @Central 6
Debate, discussion, dialogue: triggers for change Date: Friday 10th April, 2015 Facilitators: Scott Thornbury & Margit Szesztay The day will be a series of workshops focusing on how to get the most out of oral interaction with EFL groups in secondary school classrooms, higher education seminars and adult education contexts. Our main focus will be on […]
WEBINAR: Graham Stanley – Plan Ceibal English in Uruguay
Graham Stanley is currently project manager of Ceibal English for the British Council, working in Montevideo, Uruguay. Previously to this, he worked many years for the British Council Young Learner Centre in Barcelona, Spain as well as being social media manager for the British Council English websites (LearnEnglish, TeachingEnglish, LearnEnglish Kids, LearnEnglish Teens). He was project manager for the British […]
Eco-conscious ESL: reducing our carbon footprint with alternative methodologies (Barbara James)
Paper or no paper? Photocopier, duplicator or one dog eared text book? Blackboard or interactive whiteboard? Having worked in developed and developing countries, I have looked into methodologies and materials that reduce our carbon footprint. ‘Small is beautiful’ Environmental consciousness is not a new issue. It has been a part of teacher staffroom discussion for […]
Global education meets visual literacy: reading global images critically (Thorsten Merse)
In an increasingly hypervisualized world where images circulate around the globe with ease, learners must be able to critically decode the globally relevant meanings that lie beneath the visual surface of images. In my talk, I demonstrated how this new challenge for Global Education can be met when teachers apply a visual literacy framework infused […]
Beyond story – the pedagogical and social potential of stories (Rick Sampedro)
Through a series of hands-on activities based on Helbling Young Readers series, we explored some of the underlying values and how to expand their scope turning them into something meaningful for primary school children. Games and role plays will also help teachers realise the full potential of readers when working with values. Good readers and stories in general open […]
Widening horizons with YouTube – ways of going deeper (Margit Szesztay)
The session focused on ways of exploiting youtube videos in the classroom. The aim was to show how clips which raise real world issues can be used to inspire, motivate, encourage reflection and to trigger meaningful interaction. We tried out pre- and post- viewing activities which involve active exploration and critical thinking. Take a look […]
