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AMT Academic Management & Trainers 9th –11th January 2020
Contents
Welcome! 3 IH online events in 2020 23
IHWO Team 4 Our resource of recordings 23
Thursday 9th January 6 IH Journal 24
Friday 10th January 7 Recruitment 25
Saturday 11th January 8 Meet our exhibitors 26
Upcoming OTTI course dates 22 Map of Greenwich 27
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Welcome! We are very happy to welcome you to the 2020 IH Academic Management and Trainers Conference. We hope you enjoy being with us in Greenwich for a jam-packed conference schedule! The programme format is a Thursday morning workshop, followed by plenary speakers in the afternoon, our fantastic IH speakers on Friday, and external plenary speakers on the Saturday. There will also be Welcome Drinks on Thursday at The Old Brewery, and on Saturday we have confirmed last year’s beautiful venue at the Trafalgar Tavern for our quiz night with dinner and dancing! Following your feedback, we won’t be printing the programme so keep this e-version to hand. Thank you for being here and have a fantastic conference! From the IHWO Team
IHWO Team
Monica Green
Executive Director
ì monica.green@ihworld.com
Ask me about... IHWO strategy and governance, management
advice and all things IH
Lucy Horsefield
Managing Director
ì lucy.horsefield@ihworld.com
Ask me about... IHWO operations and plans
and all things IH
Beccy Wigglesworth
Director Member Services
and Client Experience
ì beccy.wigglesworth@ihworld.com
Ask me about... IH inspections, Customer Experience,
Wellbeing and Safety, info for new schools, Speak for IH
Tanya Harn
Assessment & Training Coordinator
ì tanya.harn@ihworld.com
Ask me about... IHWO Assessment Unit, IH OTTI enrolment,
running IHWO Teacher Training courses and AMT Conference
Giuliana Faldetta
Brand Engagement and Marketing Coordinator
ì giuliana.faldetta@ihworld.com
Ask me about... Marketing, IH branding, social media,
sponsorship, Study Abroad
Georgina Deacon
Digital Content Executive
ì georgina.deacon@ihworld.com
Ask me about... Creating digital content, editing videos, SEO,
Google Analytics and social media
Marta Robles Villarino
Marketing and Membership Administrator
ì marta.roblesvillarino@ihworld.com
Ask me about... Recruitment, member services, IH website
logins, mailing lists and social media
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IHWO Team
Karolina Meena
Bookkeeper
ì karolina.meena@ihworld.com
Ask me about... Payments, affiliation fees and
IHWO accounts
Shaun Wilden
Academic Head Training & Development
ì shaun.wilden@ihworld.com
Ask me about... Teacher Training, IH OTTI courses, live online
workshops, AMT conference
Yvonne Hamill
Membership & Services Officer
ì yvonne.hamill@ihworld.com
Ask me about... Inspections, recruitment, member services
and IH website logins
Estelle Hélouin
IH Languages Coordinator
ì ihlanguages@ihworld.com
Ask me about... Support for French Teachers and advisors for
other languages, Google site
Xana de Nagy
YL Coordinator
ì IHWOYLAdvisor@ihworld.com
Ask me about... Young Learners and teenagers, the new
IH online course for YL and teens
IHWO Language Advisors
Arabic: Wessam Sayed Italian: Chiara Passantino
ì wissamsayed@yahoo.com ì chiara.passantino@gmail.com
French: Estelle Hélouin Russian: Andriy Ruzhynskiy
ì ihlanguages@ihworld.com ì andruzh@gmail.com
German: Anette Igel Spanish: David Barraza
ì igelanette@yahoo.co.uk ì david.barraza@ihmexico.com
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Thursday 9th January
All sessions in The Westminster Suite
08.30 Registration desk opens
09.00–12.30 Can we manage performance in ELT?
Maureen McGarvey
12.30–13.45 Lunch
13.45–14.30 Welcome and update
Lucy Horsfield
14.35–15.05 What’s new with OTTI?
Shaun Wilden and Tanya Harn
15.05–15.35 Coffee break
15.35–16.05 I used to ride a bicycle, but now I drive a car
Monica Green
16.10–17.10 ELT in a climate emergency. Responsibilities and opportunities
Christopher Graham
18.00–20.00 Welcome drinks at The Old Brewery
Become the teacher
you want to be
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Friday 10th January
The Hamilton Suite (downstairs) The Westminster Suite (upstairs)
09.00 Day two announcements Day two announcements
09.05–09.45 Making sense of it all: managing Beyond comprehension: listening skills
complexity in ELT organisations in initial-teacher training?
Simon Cox Emma Gowing
09.50–10.30 The fun factor — let’s play leadership Teaching or learning — OR the curse of
Lucie Cotterill “we’ve done that”
Estelle Hélouin
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–11.40 Drama as a USP What can we teach CELTA trainees?
Ian Raby Developing reflection in self-evaluations
Manana Khvichia
11.45–12.25 Having difficult conversations What I’ve learnt about teacher
Anna Britton training this year
Sandy Millin
12.25–13.45 Lunch
13.45–14.25 A bully, a victim and a bystander walk Making the most of drop-in observations
into a school… What can they see? Diana England
Giovanni Licata
14.30–15.10 Power to the people: Helping novice In or out of the loop?
teachers develop agency and confidence Jenny Holden and James Blackburn
Marie Willoughby
15.10–15.30 Coffee break
15.30–16.10 Sound bites Teaching live online — great! Or not…
Chloé Pakeman-Schiavone Choreanne Frei and Nancie Gantenbein
16.15–16.55 Better safe than sorry How to make the most of the IH-branded
Edward Evans version of the Net Languages platform
and courses
Fiona Thomas
17.00–17.30 The Westminster Suite (upstairs)
Online teaching examples from around the network
Moderated by Lucy Horsefield
17.30–18.00 Modern language meeting
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Saturday 11th January
All sessions in The Westminster Suite
09 00–10.00 In conversation with…
10.05–11.05 Mythology, methodology and the language of education technology
Lindsay Clandfield
11.05–11.35 Coffee break
11.35–12.35 Little by little — can an incremental coaching
model improve teaching?
Jonathan Ingham
This session is kindly sponsored by LanguageCert
12.35–12.50 LanguageCert presentation
Henry Tolley and Janet Golding
12.50–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.00 What about the fifth skill of viewing?
Kieran Donaghy
This session is kindly sponsored by Macmillan Education
15.00–15.20 Coffee break
15.20–16.20 Helping teachers work with learner language
Danny Norrington-Davies
16.25–17.25 Crash and burnout: early warning signs and avoiding teacher burnout
Rachael Roberts
17.25–17.30 Conference wrap up
The 7th Annual IH AMT conference quiz night at
18.30–01.00
the Trafalgar Tavern followed by disco
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Session information
and speaker biographies
Plenary sessions
Can we manage performance in ELT?
ǰ Maureen McGarvey
Performance Management is a difficult area for managers.
We all want our staff to perform to their best ability, but we
are often unsure as to how to achieve this. We may have
systems and processes set up to monitor performance, but
how do we actively, and consistently, manage performance
to get the best out of our staff for the benefit of all our clients? In this session,
we will consider the following topics.
1. What does your organisation look like? We will examine your
organisational structure and culture, and consider how both of these affect
performance management of your staff.
2. We will focus on small-scale research conducted to discover how academic
staff in language teaching organisations wanted their managers to manage
their performance.
3. Finally, we will explore some performance management case studies of
staff, and discuss how our organisation could address the performance
management issues we collectively identify. We will work together to devise
some ‘Golden Rules’ for performance management of staff in our schools
Maureen McGarvey is a freelance educational consultant specialising in teacher
development and academic manager development. She has been involved in online
training and management training for the past 15 years, running a range of distance,
face to face, and online training programmes for academic managers. Maureen wrote the
management module for the MSc in TESOL offered by Aston University, and was subject
tutor and dissertation supervisor for that module for several years. She has also tutored
the management module for the MA in TESOL offered by Westminster University and is a
frequent conference speaker on topics related to academic management and online training.
Maureen has worked in ELT for longer than she cares to remember (!) and has worked in the
UK, Spain and Hungary, as well as on short training contracts in other locations. She has
been a committee member of the Leadership and Management Special Interest Group for
IATEFL, and is Chair of the IATEFL Scholarship Committee.
I used to ride a bicycle, but now I drive a car
ǰ Monica Green
Have ‘things’ really changed? Can our own experience and expertise blind us
to the staff development we should ideally be providing to ensure the client
delight and success we promise? Let’s talk about it.
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ELT in a climate emergency.
Responsibilities and opportunities
ǰ Christopher Graham
My working assumption is that everyone in the audience
will accept that we are in a climate emergency and has
some degree of understanding of the likely consequences
of inaction, and therefore I won’t need to explain just what a
state we have let ourselves get into. If anyone doesn’t, I will be
glad to send them some resources afterwards. Knowing ELT people as I do,
I doubt the need to explain the mess we’re in.
This talk will have three sections, the first of these giving an overview of
the ELT Footprint story so far, what we do and where we see things going in
the coming months. The second section will be an opportunity for us all as
members of the ELT community to take a look at our collective, global footprint
and explore some realistic ideas that we can put into practice at institutional
or wider levels. The third section will remind us that as a community we are
in a position of potentially great influence. We are all directly or indirectly
involved in teaching classes, many of which contain mainly young people. The
section will look at how we can build key climate crisis messages and content
into our classroom inputs and lead the way with our institutional behaviours
and initiatives.
Christopher Graham is one of the founders of ELT Footprint. He has worked in ELT since
1981 in over 30 countries as a teacher, DoS, teacher educator and writer. His specific areas
of interest are trainer-training and 21st Century skills in ELT. Geographically, his areas of
expertise are the Middle East, North Africa, Russia and Central Asia.
His day job is academic director for an ELT publisher. Through working closely with
institutions around the world, he is aware of the complexities of implementing environmental
policies amongst some of the different ELT stakeholders.
In conversation with…
A new addition to the conference programme in which we create a space for
participants to ask questions to a panel of four IH DOSes/teacher trainers,
before opening it to further discussion in the room. The panel will consist of
Giovanni Licta, Ian Raby, Jennifer Holden, and Sandy Millin so if you have a
question about an aspect of management or training or want ideas to try out in
your school come along and take part.
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language of education technology
ǰ Lindsay Clandfield
Education is broken. Classrooms haven’t changed in
hundreds of years. Robots are coming for our jobs. We
don’t need teachers. 21st century learners. Innovation
and disruption. Adapt or die. One of the most interesting
aspects of digital education is the nature of the discourse
that surrounds it. In a way, they feel like modern bedtime stories for teachers.
But whereas fifteen years ago the stories would give me wonderful dreams of a
digital utopia, lately they are taking a darker turn.
In this plenary I’d like us to critically examine some of this language and stories
as they have come into the field of English Language Teaching. I’d also like to
question what happens when the more recent popular stories about education
technology collide with older narratives we’ve been telling about ELT.
Lindsay Clandfield is an award-winning writer, teacher, teacher trainer and international
speaker in the field of English language teaching. He has written more than ten coursebooks
and is the main author of the new young adult course Studio (Helbling Languages). His
other courses include Global and Straightforward (Macmillan). Lindsay is the series editor
of the Delta Teacher Development books and has co-written various methodology books for
teachers, notably Dealing with Difficulties and Teaching Online (Delta Publishing). His most
recent methodology book was Interaction Online (CUP) which he co-wrote with Jill Hadfield.
Lindsay is also the creative force behind various web projects including the popular blog
Six Things, the e-publishing collective The Round and the sci-fi/adventure materials website
Extreme Language Teaching. You can find out more about him at his website
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Consultants EXCITE | EXPLORE | EXCELLittle by little — can an incremental coaching
model improve teaching?
ǰ Jonny Ingham
In many schools, teachers are observed just once a year.
This observation rarely reflects what a teacher does in their
day-to-day teaching. Following observation some teachers
are overwhelmed by the number of actions given to develop
their teaching. This session presents the results of our action
research into an alternative model — incremental coaching, to help teachers
make small manageable tweaks to really develop their classroom practice.
Jonny Ingham is an Excellence Coach, CELTA Trainer and EFL/ESOL lecturer based
at a large further education college in Cambridge. He began his teaching career with
International House, taking his CELTA, Delta and Diploma in Educational Management with
IH and going on to work in IH schools in Italy and Argentina. Prior to returning to the UK in
2015 he worked as Director of Studies and Head of Teacher Training at IH Palermo Language
Centre. He now works in an FE college spending half his time training on CELTA courses and
the other half coaching new and experienced teachers of all manner of subjects. He is the
author of the ELT blog www.eflrecipes.com.
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with live invigilationWhat about the fifth skill of viewing?
ǰ Kieran Donaghy
In the English language curricula of a number of countries
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skills, viewing and visually representing, have been added to
the traditional skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Undoubtedly, these two new skills of viewing and visually
representing will be integrated into national curricula throughout the world in
the near future. In this talk Kieran Donaghy examines what viewing is and how
we can support our teachers in helping their students become more effective
viewers by exploring a number of generic activities which can be used with a
variety of visual texts — photos, paintings, short films and videos. We will go
away from this session with a clear understanding of what the skill of viewing is
and a number of tried and tested viewing activities to share with our teachers.
Kieran Donaghy is a freelance writer, international conference speaker and trainer. He has
held teaching, teacher training and academic management posts in the UK, Italy, Portugal
and Spain. He is the author of several books for students and teachers of English as a foreign
language, including Macmillan Education’s Language Hub.
His website Film English http://film-english.com/ has won a British Council ELTons Award
for Innovation in Teacher Resources, the most prestigious European media in education
prize, the MEDEA Award, and an English-Speaking Union Award. Kieran is the founder and
organiser of the only conference exclusively on the use of images in language teaching,
The Image Conference. In addition, Kieran is the co-founder of the Visual Arts Circle
http://visualartscircle.com/ a professional community of practice for language education
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International House offersHelping teachers work with learner language
ǰ Danny Norrington-Davies
How do teachers work with unplanned learner language, and
can their skills in this area be improved through reflection
and practice? Based on data from observations and
interviews with experienced teachers, this plenary looks at
ways in which teachers respond to emergent language and
explores the beliefs that underpin their choices and techniques. We will then
look at ways in which trainers and managers can help teachers to develop their
ability to notice and respond to emergent language in their own classes.
Danny Norrington-Davies is a teacher and teacher-educator working at King’s College
London and International House London. His first book, ‘Teaching grammar: from rules to
reasons’ was published by Pavilion in 2016.
Danny enjoys speaking at conferences and giving workshops, and along with emerging
language and teacher education, his interests in ELT are grammar, materials design,
visualization and memory and creativity. Danny is currently researching how teachers work
with emergent language and how they can improve their skills in this area.
Crash and burnout: early warning signs
and avoiding teacher burnout
ǰ Rachael Roberts
Teaching has always been a demanding profession, but,
increasingly, teachers are under so much pressure that
they crash and burn out of teaching altogether. In this talk
I will help teachers/trainers and managers of teachers to
recognise the sometimes subtle signs of impending burnout,
and suggest a variety of ways to avoid burning out, from practical tips to
changes in mindset.
Rachael Roberts has worked in Portugal, Brazil, Poland and the UK as a teacher, teacher
trainer and materials writer since 1989. She is also a qualified life coach and counsellor,
specialising in helping teachers and education professionals to avoid burnout and live
balanced, happy lives.
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— Friday 10th January
The Hamilton Suite (downstairs)
Making sense of it all: managing complexity
in ELT organisations
ǰ Simon Cox, GP IH Shanghai
Based on an article written for ETP, this is a ‘sense-making’ tool for ELT
managers.
Some management guides tell us that different kinds of people become
different kinds of managers, but this talk takes a different point of view ... I’ll
focus on how understanding differences in situations is what really matters.
I’ll look at four different examples of common situations we face in our jobs, and
I’ll suggest four different perspectives that we can use to make sense of them.
A key word is ‘complexity’. The word has become more common in ELT in
recent years, but it has rarely been related to the work we do in running a
language school.
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ǰ Lucie Cotterill, IH British School Reggio Calabria
In an increasingly competitive ELT market, innovation is key to the
sustainability and long-term success of our organisations. In this session, we
will be looking at how our institutions can ‘keep ahead of the game’ not just
through working hard, but by playing harder. We will examine the important
role that playful leadership can have in a number of areas such as increasing
innovation, staff well-being, teaching quality, employee satisfaction and team
rapport and you will leave the session with some practical ideas about how to
incorporate play into your daily working routine.
Drama as a USP
ǰ Ian Raby, IH Voronezh-Linguist
In a crowded market it’s important to have something that makes your school
stand out from the crowd. At IH Voronezh we have developed a reputation as
the place to go, not only if you want to improve your language skills, but also
if you want to take part in international theatre festivals. This has not only
broadened our client base, but also made the school feel like a real community.
In this session I’ll share with you some of the factors which make our drama
projects successful, what we learnt through collaborating with another IH
school in 2018–19 and how you can get involved!
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discuss powerful ideas in the classroom.Having difficult conversations
ǰ Anna Britton, IH Intuition
We all recognise a difficult conversation, it could be with a teacher who’s had
negative feedback from their class, a trainee who’s failed a lesson or even a
conversation with your boss about terms and conditions. This session aims
to pinpoint the three reasons conversations are difficult, examine the EQ
behind a difficult conversation and map out a strategy for handling difficult
conversations of all types. We’ll look at the importance of validation, avoiding
the blame game and reaching a workable solution.
A bully, a victim and a bystander walk into a
school… What can they see?
ǰ Giovanni Licata, IH Rome Manzoni
Educational institutions and their classrooms have been under scrutiny over
the last decades to provide safe environments for their learners and workers.
As no social space is insulated from society, schools and academic managers
are faced with pressing and fast-changing challenges to ensure that safety
and equitability are guaranteed. This session will help the audience reflect and
evaluate the explicit and peripheral messages that we send out to those who
walk into our institutions for the first time as learners or employees. Is it safety
at first sight or are we inadvertently giving the wrong message to potential
bullies, victims and bystanders?
Power to the people: Helping novice teachers
develop agency and confidence
ǰ Marie Willoughby, IH London
In this talk I will draw on my own Master’s research into teacher agency
amongst novice teachers (Willoughby 2019) which aimed to shed light on
what agency is and the conditions and resources needed to foster it in new
teachers. I will provide practical examples of how directors of studies and
senior teachers can create these conditions and also how to use workshops
to develop newer teachers’ problem solving skills, help them build criteria to
evaluate success and realise their own agency.
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ǰ Chloé Pakeman-Schiavone, IH Pescara
This presentation asks the question: Are we producing ‘proficient’ students
whose language enables them to attend degree courses, but doesn’t prepare
them to work in pubs while they are there or allow them to communicate with
the majority of the world’s speakers of English?
We all know that we should give students authentic listening models, but are
those audio clips a genuine reflection of the way that English is spoken and are
they representative of today’s speakers of English? Are our students able to
function on a real-world level?
We will investigate the notion that to give students a genuine learning
experience we must give them genuine listening models by:
● Identifying L1 accents and stereotypical L1 accent models
● Considering the introduction of incorrect models of speech (both in terms of
accent and grammar)
● Discovering routes which lead students into contact with ‘other’ English
models
● Considering IH collaboration as a means for enabling students to be exposed
to authentic L2 speakers.
● This presentation will be most relevant to IH schools which are not located in
English speaking countries.
Better safe than sorry
ǰ Edward Evans, IH Moscow-BKC
The attitude towards safety differs from country to country, institution to
institution. Depending on common sense is therefore dangerous, and when
there are problems, they can be serious, for the student, for the teacher, and for
the school, especially where children are involved. What internal regulations,
procedures and training are necessary, and practical, to avoid disasters? This
will be an opportunity to share our best practices and see how we decided to
address this at IH Moscow-BKC.
18 Share your conference experience with us using #IHConfAMTWorkshop sessions — Friday 10th January The Westminster Suite (upstairs) Beyond comprehension: listening skills in initial-teacher training? ǰ Emma Gowing, IH Santiago de Compostela How effectively do we train teachers to teach listening? Researchers and writers such as Field and Cauldwell have been addressing the deficiencies of common approaches to listening for some time. But how accessible is this research to newer teachers and how can we incorporate it into initial teacher training courses and in-house teacher development? In this session I will summarise some of the prominent theory and research into L2 listening as well as reflect on my recent experiences and experiments in the classroom and in teacher-training. Finally, I propose some strategies and tools that can help us rethink and refresh our approach to teaching listening.
Teaching OR learning — or the curse
of “we’ve done that”
ǰ Estelle Hélouin, IHWO
Are we really walking the walk and talking the talk when we say we have a
learner-focused approach? What does this mean in practice? Do we need a
culture change? Is this even possible? What does this mean for our training
programmes and observations? Come and open Pandora’s box to discuss
these and many other questions on learner-focused issues and hopefully come
back with a few tricks in your pocket. Particularly recommended if you work
with tutors with big egos!
What can we teach CELTA trainees?
Developing reflection in self-evaluations
ǰ Manana Khvichia, IH Tbilisi
Every trainer has their own ways of providing feedback and making sure
trainees are aware of their teaching issues. And developing the ability to
evaluate their own lessons and reflect on them is one of the main aims of
any teacher development programme. However, the majority of trainees’
self-evaluations are very brief and sometimes completed ‘just for a tick’. As
a trainer and an assessor, I have seen different evaluation forms and ways to
help trainees with their evaluations. I would like to compare some of them, at
the same time exploring theoretical principles behind developing a reflective
approach, in order to ‘bridge the gap’ between the theory and what we do
during our CELTA courses. I would like to discuss as well what we, trainers,
could do to make sure our CELTA candidates are truly reflective teachers,
capable of growing professionally in any context after they have completed
their CELTA courses.
What I’ve learnt about teacher
training this year
ǰ Sandy Millin, IH Bydgoszcz
I am currently studying a module in Trainer Development as part of my MA
and have therefore read a lot about teacher training. It’s already had a big
impact on my training and managerial work, and I would like to share some of
those insights with you.
Making the most of drop-in observations
ǰ Diana England, IH Torres Vedras and Lisbon
This session explores different ways we can use data collected from carrying
out drop-in observations during the first lessons of a new academic year to
help develop teachers of all levels of experience and expertise.
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ǰ Jenny Holden and James Blackburn, IH Palermo Language
Centre and IH British School Reggio Calabria
Does loop input still have value in teacher training today? Are we as trainers
practising what we preach? We find ourselves telling teachers to cater to
different students’ needs, but is that reflected in our input sessions? In this
talk, we will explore the pros and cons of loop input and look at practical
strategies to bridge the gap between input and intake for teachers.
Teaching live online — great! Or not…
ǰ Choreanne Frei and Nancie Gantenbein, IH Zurich-Baden
How do teachers deal with it when they suddenly have to change from a F2F
classroom to a virtual one? In this case study, we will look at how our teachers
felt when they were suddenly confronted with the request to teach live online
using video conferencing platforms. We will discuss the challenges involved,
such as getting teachers on board and different degree of technical skills, as
well as how we addressed their fears and frustrations. We will also show how
teachers’ attitudes to teaching live online changed, and the impact this project
had on their development. And, most importantly, what are the next steps
with the newly acquired skills.
How to make the most of the IH-branded
version of the Net Languages platform
and courses
ǰ Fiona Thomas, Net Languages
In this session I will help you to become more familiar with the different
courses and materials that are available to you on the IH-branded online
learning platform. We will look at the different ways you can use them: as part
of a blended package, as a 100% online solution or as an additional resource.
I will share case studies of how different IH schools are working with the
materials to give you ideas of what might work well for you. You can also share
your experiences to date and I will try to address any issues or questions you
might have. And finally I will share with you what we are working on now and
our plans for future development.
21 Share your conference experience with us using #IHConfAMTUpcoming OTTI course dates
The IH Online Teacher Training Institute (OTTI) is the teacher training wing
of International House World Organisation. We provide online professional
development courses for language teachers around the world.
There are courses for every stage of a teacher’s career, from soon after your
initial pre-service qualification, to Delta level and management courses.
Find all course details, dates and application forms on ihworld.info/OTTI
Course Dates
IH Certificate in Teaching Business English 15th Feb – 6th June 2020*
IH Certificate in Advanced Methodology 8th Feb – 27th June 2020*
IH Certificate in Online Tutoring 8th Feb – 14th March 2020
IH Director of Studies Course 15th Feb – 2nd May 2020*
IH Teacher Trainer Certificate 22nd Feb – 23rd May 2020*
IH Certificate in Teaching Very Young Learners 1st Feb – 4th April 2020*
IH Online Course in Teaching Young Learners and Teenagers 18th Jan – 14th March 2020*
DELTA 1 Exam Technique Preparation Course 4th April – 30th May 2020
For managers: Observation and Giving Feedback Jan 18th – Feb 29th 2020*
For managers: Business Management Jan 18th – Feb 29th 2020*
*plus two weeks for the final assessmentIH online events in 2020
IH Teachers Online
Conference
May 2020 — date TBC
Previous years have seen a wide
range of engaging webinars
delivered, covering numerous
teaching topics and areas of
interest, and this year promises
to be no different! The conference
is a great way to share tips and
innovations, and perfect for
interacting with fellow teachers.
Pick up new ideas from colleagues
around the world, or even offer
some yourself!
IH Modern Language Online Conference
May 2020 — date TBC
This conference brings together a variety of sessions in other languages
(Arabic, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian), and in 2019 covered
topics such as Arabic slang, using students’ native language in the classroom,
and the differences between gender and sex.
Our resource of recordings
In the IHWO website Members’ Area, we have built up a bank of interesting
resources from our range of online events and conferences. This includes:
● IH Young Learner Assessment — Online Seminars — 2018 and 2019
● IH Teachers Online Conference
● IH Online Modern Language Conference
● IH Wellbeing Season
● IH Innovation Conference
● Autumn Webinars 2018 and 2019
We also have a range of presentations to view from our events:
● IH AMT Conference 2018 and 2019
● IH Young Learner Conference 2018 and 2019
● IH Directors’ Conference 2018 and 2019
Log into our Members’ Area and go to ‘Events and Conferences’ to view this
collection of recordings and presentations. Alternatively, visit this direct
link: ihworld.com/member-dashboard/events-and-conferences
23 Share your conference experience with us using #IHConfAMTIH Journal
Want to become a published writer?
We are looking for contributions to the IH Journal from language
teaching experts, teachers and teacher trainers. Past authors
include Scott Thornbury, Philip Kerr, Martin Parrot, and Brita
Haycraft, so your contribution will find itself in good company.
The IH Journal is read by hundreds of language teachers, teacher
trainers and managers all over the world.
If you or one of your teachers would like to submit an article please
contact the IH Journal editor, Chris Ożóg, at ihjeditor@ihworld.com
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24 Share your conference experience with us using #IHConfAMTRecruitment
If you are looking to recruit staff this year then consider the service provided
by the IH recruitment site: ihworld.com/job
● More than 70 schools normally advertise
● 9,000 professionals currently registered on the site
● Many jobs get over 100 applications
● Longlisting to save you time filtering out applicants who don’t meet your
baseline requirements
Using this service is an effective and straightforward way to help your
recruitment and attract the best talent. In order to advertise vacancies on the
site all you need to do is set up a school profile which gives you the access to
advertise as many jobs as you wish.
For more information or if you need help getting set up please contact
Marta Robles Villarino on worldrecruit@ihworld.com
25 Share your conference experience with us using #IHConfAMTMeet our exhibitors Thursday 9th January Friday 10th January Saturday 11th January 26 Share your conference experience with us using #IHConfAMT
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Conference locations Cafes/restaurants Pubs/drinks
1 Devonport House 4 Café Rouge 8 King’s Arms
King William Walk 30 Stockwell Street 16 King William Walk
SE10 9JW SE10 9JN SE10 9JH
2 The Old Brewery 5 Bill’s 9 The Mitre
The Pepys Building 13 Nelson Road 291 Greenwich High Road
The Old Royal Naval College SE10 9JB SE10 8NA
SE10 9LW
6 Pizza Express 10 The Gipsy Moth
3 Trafalgar Tavern 4 Church Street 60 Greenwich Church Street
Park Row SE10 9BG SE10 9BL
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7 The Green Cafe Other
285 Greenwich High Road
11 Greenwich DLR
SE10 8NB
12 Greenwich Rail
13 Greenwich Market
27 Share your conference experience with us using #IHConfAMTSee you next year!
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