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Webinars: past and future, and my reflections

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Using your brain: what neuroscience can teach us about learning, British Council Teaching English

When: 5 October, 2018
Who: Rachael Roberts, ELT materials writer, teacher and teacher trainer (she's on Twitter!)
What: an hour talking about how findings from neuroscience can inform language teaching
Main takeaways:
  • the value of using spaced learning as opposed to massed learning;
  • encouraging intrinsic motivation, as it supports learning in the longer term;
  • stimulating guessing: although some teachers are afraid that by guessing, learners will retain the wrong answer instead of the right one, it's a risk worth taking as guessing makes learning more memorable;
  • some stress is goo is good: an optimal level of difficulty, which causes the learner to have to "work for it", is conducive to learning

You can find a recording of the webinar here, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Reflective tools for teacher development, IATEFL Research SIG

When: March 19th 2018
Who: Steve Mann (University of Warwick) & Steve Walsh (Newcastle University)
What: 1 hour 20 minutes on tools teachers and teacher trainers can use to foster reflective practice
Main takeaways: 
  • Current issues with Reflective Practice: Issues with RP
    • Lack of data-led, evidence-based material to see how RP is done in practice
    • Over-reliance on written forms of reflection
    • Reflection hasn’t been operationalised in systematic ways: how it is done from a practitioner and a research point of view
  • Useful tools for Reflective Practice:
    • Cooperative development: one person becomes the "understander" and the other one has the chance to elaborate 
    • Post-observation conferences
    • Video-enhanced observation (examples of use of VEO around the world)
    • Dialogic reflection: co-constructing knowledge through language and interaction

​You can find a recording of the webinar 
here and read more about reflective practice in ELT here:
Farrell, T. S. C. and A. Cirocki (2017). "Reflective practice for the professional development of TESOL practitioners." The European journal of applied linguists and TEFL 6(2): 5-24.
Steve Walsh, Steve Mann; Doing reflective practice: a data-led way forward, ELT Journal, Volume 69, Issue 4, 1 October 2015, Pages 351–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccv018
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