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      British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina CPD conference

      On 26 February 2013 British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina is hosting a regional conference on continuing professional development for teachers in Sarajevo. Education experts from the region and the UK are coming together with representatives of education sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina to share experiences and best practice examples from their countries in area of CPD for teachers.

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      Featured blog of the month for February

      Our latest featured blog of the month is Adam Simpson's The greatest creative writing activity ever from his blog teachthemenglish.com

      Adam wrote this post in response to one of the daily questions on the TeachingEnglish facebook page about a favourite lesson plan or activity that you come back to and use again and again.

      In the post, he describes his all time favourite activity which not only enables students to practise their language skills but is adaptable to different ages and levels. 

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      IATEFL 2013: ESP SIG Pre-conference event

      The IATEFL ESP SIG Pre-Conference Event (PCE) will take place on 8 April 2013 in Hall 3A of the Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool

      This event will provide an opportunity to share cutting-edge advances in relevant sub-areas of ESP, and to point where some of these ‘specialisms’ overlap with other ones, and where they remain distinctively unique and different.

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      New continuing professional development webinars

      The British Council is delighted to announce a new series of free webinars on various aspects of continuing professional development by experienced ELT consultants.

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      Exercise generator on TeachingEnglish

      TeachingEnglish website is pleased to announce a revised partnership agreement with LingleOnline Ltd for its ‘

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      Ten Web 2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional

      The following list was inspired by eLearn Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lisa Neal's blog post 'Ten Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes To Be a More Successful e-learning Professional'. We'd like to offer the Web 2.0 Edition of Lisa's list ... Read more

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      Languages from the Cradle

      Lullabies in multiple languages are a perfect way to introduce new languages into a family setting. Every European country has its own culture of lullabies but this project will allow you to cross the cultural divide and sing and play other wonderful lullabies in your homes.... Read more
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      June issue of Countdown

      The Progression grid is designed to help support teachers’ assessment judgements, based on evidence from the tasks and also on what pupils do in the classroom. It was originally developed to aid task development, but its usefulness as a tool providing support both for judgements teachers might make with pupils and for planning future teaching and learning soon became apparent(PDF)... Read more

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      Transfer Of Learning Traced To Areas Of The Brain

      Practice makes perfect, but a question that still remains a mystery is why it is so difficult to transfer learning from a trained to an untrained task? Why are we no better at remembering faces when we have been training our memory for words? ... Read more >>
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      Personalisation, protection and permissions

      Parental engagement is critically important in promoting learning, particularly for younger children. Praise from family members for what a young member of the family has achieved has much greater value than praise from their teacher... Read more >>