Climate Action in your English Classroom

About this webinar

In this special episode of the AskHala series, Hala and international climate/ELT experts will be speaking to you live from COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. They will discuss how to introduce environmental issues into your English classes and what research says about teachers addressing climate issues in classes. By the end of the webinar, you will have a range of practical classroom ideas to raise your students awareness towards environmental care and sustainability.

Recorded on 14 November 2022

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About the speakers for this webinar

Hala Ahmed is Head of English programmes in British Council Egypt, based in Cairo and leads on British Council Teacher Professional Development Programmes in Egypt. In more than 12 years with the British Council, Hala has been a teacher, a teacher trainer, a teacher mentor, and an academic manager of several national and regional projects to support refugees, schoolteachers and teacher educators.

Katherine Bilsborough is a freelance ELT author and teacher trainer. She is co-founder of the global community, ELT Footprint, winner of the 2020 ELTons award for Innovation in Teacher Resources. She is also one of the authors of the British Council’s ‘The Climate connection – 12 lesson plans’. She regularly writes and speaks about sustainability in ELT and she keeps a blog at www.creatingeltmaterials.com/blog

Colm Downes is the former Director English, Education and Society at the British Council Indonesia. He has been involved in education, specifically language education and professional skills training, for over 20 years across Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. Colm is passionate about equipping future leaders with the specific language skills, network and opportunities they need to drive transformative social economic change and develop solutions to global challenges.

Happy to join it

Will Dr Hala explain how we start our study of the modules
I need to know please

Hi Ghada

This webinar is on the same topic as our upcoming training course, Climate Action in Language Education. You can find out more and enrol on the course on this page: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/climate-action-language-education Follow the instructions to register, and you can start the course from the 15th November.
We hope you find it useful,

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

Enrolled! Cath, I so much appreciated your touching upon the avoidance of further contributing to climate anxiety. So many people- not just children- are experience this

I would like to know that if their is Webber training for science teacher, and also how we can get certificate as well?

Hello Habtewold

Our webinars are really aimed at English teachers and English teacher educators. If you joined the webinar live, you will receive an e-mail with a link to the certificate at the end of the session. Hope you found it useful!

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

Thank you for giving me this opportunity.

Thank you so much for y'all's work.
Especially appreciate what Hala said about us NOT needing to be experts in climate change or environmental science to make important contributions- we are ALL part of the solution.
Have signed up for the Climate Action in Language Education course and am following closely on as many platforms as is possible.
Bless and keep up the great work <3

Hi, an excellent webinar. How can I access the links that were provided in the chat box during the webinar please?
Many thanks

Hi Maike

Thanks for your feedback on the webinar. Any links in the presentation can be accessed by watching the recording above. We will review the chat transcript and add the links here above.

Cath

TeachingEnglish team