YLT reality check - Challenging changes or changing challenges

To be a teacher of young learners, ranging from age 3 to 17, means dealing with challenges of a changing world in which we learn. Learners and trainers as well as materials developers all have to deal with these changes, too.

How do they do this? And are they successful at adapting to the opportunities and constraints offered by new technologies ranging from blogs to communities and networks, to CLIL and task-based learning and even phonics teaching.

Are we adapting to the changing child?

In this PCE we will have a broad and closer look at examples from these perspectives. By the end of the day you will leave with a clearer idea as to how well we doing as a YLT community.

Once again YLT SIG is bringing you a day that cannot be missed!

The day will be filled with talks and workshops from the following experts. By the end of the day, you will be clearer about how the YLT community is addressing these issues.

Confirmed Speakers

Brian Tomlinson - freelance materials writer
Jamie Keddie - freelance teacher & teacher trainer
Ken Wilson - Drama trainer & author of ELT materials
Nik Peachey - specialist in web based technologies for language learning
Paul Braddock - senior teacher at the British Council YL Centre, Barcelona
Richard Johnstone Prof Emeritus - researcher into ELL
Rama Mathew - Professor of Education in Delhi University

YLT SIG Pre-Conference Event 7th April 2010

Additional information at www.iatefl.org

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Going Global 4 - The UK's International Education Conference

Going Global 4 - The UK's International Education Conference
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Central London, 24 - 26 March, 2010

A distinguished line-up of more than 100 speakers in 40 sessions has been planned for this year's Going Global 4 conference.

Experts on international education include:
a.. Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
b.. Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Vice Chancellor, Universities Sains Malaysia
c.. Dr. Gwang-Jo Kim, Director, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
d.. Charles Fadel, Global Lead Education, CISCO
e.. Professor Julia King, Vice Chancellor, Aston University

Some of the over 40 sessions:
2020 vision - opportunities for skills partnerships in Vietnam
Ambitious education reform: implications for Hong Kong
Can governments deliver their higher education policies without the private sector?
China 2020: the internationalisation agenda
Doing north-south partnerships
Education 2.0: Preparing students for tomorrow’s world
Educational strategies in the quality assurance of TNE
Embedding global citizenship within the student experience
Engaging students in global issues: the responsibility of education to develop the ethical student
Erasmus: the changing face of mobility
Europe and beyond: new partnership models, TNE and Bologna
Fraud and verification: an international response to an international issue
Gearing up for the future: skills and knowledge under the microscope
Getting quality and access to language learning right
Hit or myth: UK / Africa partnerships supporting skills development
How can language requirements contribute to successful student mobility?
Improving recruitment strategy: international student choices and the changing higher education landscape
Inclusion in education: responding to changing societies
Institutional partnerships: what’s the real value?
International branch campuses: motivations, opportunities and challenges
Internationalisation index
Is internationalisation a western construct?
Iraq: meeting the challenges through education reform and partnerships
Leading tertiary education into a global future
League tables – flawed rankings or key benchmarks?
Managing expectations and supporting the international experience
New global regionalism: competition and collaboration
New horizons: the future of HE partnerships
Power of partnerships: how partnerships in Africa support development
Rapidly developing world class research in the Gulf
Responding to HE internationalisation
Strangers in a foreign land: international student security
Skills development: lessons from the European experience
Succeeding in the global competition for academic talent
Team Germany: tactics to top the global Bundesliga
What do employers seek and how can we deliver?
What do the students want?
What makes a truly global university?
Which way is the pendulum swinging?
Widening access to higher level skills: the contribution of global partnerships
Equality in international education: how do universities respond to the new demographic?
You can’t ask that: eliminating bias to make English tests fair for all

For more information visit www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal or email going-global@britishcouncil.org

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