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Day 3: Sunday 1 March
Time Venue Activity
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12.00 – 13.00 105 Enhancing the awareness of teachers to evaluating writing through
small-scale research, Shehla Khan
The presentation focuses on the need for teachers to engage in smallscale
research to make themselves aware of the function of criteria in
evaluating writing to enhance the quality of their judgements about
learners’ level of writing. The presentation demonstrates how this
understanding of criteria can make huge differences in the way a teacher
may interpret an analytical score on a piece of writing and give formative
feedback.
Shehla Khan is currently a researcher at the EFL University, Hyderabad.
She has taught English for seven years before taking up research. Her
areas of interest include evaluation, writing and teacher education.
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12.00 – 13.00 106 Are you being watched? Observation as a learning tool, Kim Beadle
Observation has traditionally taken an evaluative role in the EFL classroom
with teachers often feeling scared or intimidated by the process. This
presentation looks at observation as a learning tool, used to inform rather
than judge. It will consider benefits and means of using observation for
professional development and offer some practical methods that can be
used to encourage teachers to welcome it rather than fear it.
Kim Beadle is an Academic Coordinator in British Council Mexico. Her
main interests are teacher training and product development.
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12.00 – 13.00 201 Learner-centred activities, Neil Sarkar (British Council workshop)
In this workshop participants will explore and reflect on learner-centred
activities through practical examples and discussion. Issues addressed
include the following: What is the rationale? How can we define a
classroom activity as learner-centred? Are some activities that we think
are learner-centred actually teacher-centred in disguise?
Neil Sarkar has worked as a teacher and manager in ELT and further
education. He is the Deputy Teaching Centre Manager, British Council,
South India.
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13.00 – 14.00 Networking and lunch break
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14.00 – 14.30 Various PARALLEL SESSION 3
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14.00 – 14.30 Main Hall Curriculum change and innovation: insiders' perspectives, Ravinarayan
Chakrakodi
In this talk, the impact of the new curriculum introduced for Diploma in
Education (D Ed) and the factors that have contributed to the successful
implementation of the curriculum will be analysed. The English component
of the curriculum, with the focus on developing the language proficiency
of student-teachers in the first year and equipping them with the
pedagogical skills necessary for teaching English in the second year, is
beneficial to the majority of student-teachers.