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Day 2: Saturday 28 February
Time Venue Activity
10.15 – 11.30 Various PARALLEL SESSION 1 continued
This presentation will look at three frameworks that have a direct impact
on professional development for teachers and teacher educators – the
CPD Framework for Teachers, the CPD Framework for Teacher Educators
and the Quality Standards Framework.
John Shackleton is a Senior Training Consultant at the British Council in
Delhi. He manages the Quality Standards Programme.
Tim Phillips is head of teacher development in English and Exams in the
British Council, based in Manchester, UK, with extensive experience of
training round the world.
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10.15 – 11.15 G01/02 Assessing young learners: challenges and possible solutions,
Gwendydd Caudwell (Aptis)
Increasingly, teachers are required to produce language tests both for
classroom and summative use within the schooling system. One critical
aspect of developing appropriate assessments for young learners is
understanding how cognition develops. This paper looks at the cognitive
development of young learners aged 5-17, the English ability they can
achieve at different ages and practical considerations and examples for
building successful tasks for these age groups.
Gwendydd Caudwell is Aptis Product Development Manager at the British
Council, based in Dubai. She has significant experience as a teacher and
teacher trainer and is now heavily involved in assessment and is pursuing
a PhD in the assessment of young learners.
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10.15 – 11.15 G03 Chat rooms, classrooms and capabilities: implications for education of
the evolution of English in 21st-century India, Rukmini Bhaya Nair
The sacred space of the Indian classroom has long granted a special place
to the English language. This paper examines the twin processes of the
'de-sacralization' of the Indian classroom and the 'out-sourcing' of English
as a communicative tool in contemporary India. It does so by presenting
results from a project undertaken at IIT Delhi which seeks to extend the
holistic yet culturally nuanced 'Capabilities Approach' to human
development (Nussbaum and Sen, 1993) to the field of education.
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor of Linguistics and English, Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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10.15 – 11.15 G04 Inclusive quality education: core skills for students in the 21st-century,
Rittika Chanda Parruck
An increasing body of research indicates that every country in the world
needs a high quality, inclusive and equitable school system that develops
young people who are able to:
= live and work in a globalised economy
= use their knowledge, skills and values to contribute responsibly locally
and globally.
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