OUP Webinar on ‘Coming of Age as a Teacher’ January 27, 2015

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 33 | December 28, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

OUP webinar team says, “If teacher training is our ‘teenagehood’ as teachers, the period when we ‘learn the ropes’, then teacher development is ‘coming of age’, reaching ‘adulthood’.

Conducting classroom-based research is a valuable form of teacher development and a part of maturing as teachers, by better understanding our own decision-making and taking responsibility over what we do.

In this webinar, we’ll look at the ‘why/what/when/how’ of teacher-led, classroom-based research and how it builds on the processes of evaluation and research we, teachers, carry out daily”.

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Article: Practical ideas for the Business English classroom: Part Two – Making the most of video

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 33 | December 28, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

The OUP ELT blog has published an article dealing with international tests.

One survey into the use of video in education reports that teachers increasingly welcome this tool as a means to support learning. For example, 68% of teachers believe video stimulates discussion, 66% say video increases motivation and 62% think their teaching is more effective by using video. Please see the link provided at the end of the article for more details of this survey.

These figures are all based on responses to education in general, but I’d suggest that if you were to research similar figures for Business English teachers, you’d probably find the percentages were even higher. That’s simply because video lends itself in so many ways to Business English teaching.

Here are five examples of how to integrate video into your Business English lessons, with suggestions for classroom activities.

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