Webinars for Language assessment (E.O.I.) and Art and Science for primary teachers

Dear colleagues

Two webinars in English that will be of interest to many teachers.

TEASIG Webinar with presenter: Dr. Neus Figueras 

« The CEFR Companion Volume: Uses and Implications for Language Testing and Assessment » 

Date: 15^th May 2019     Time: 1700-1800 UK Local time (1800-1900 CET)

TEASIG’s second webinar of 2019 follows on from our very successful webinar in February where Rudi Camerer talked about the new CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR CV).  Neus will focus on how the CEFR CV may impact the field of language testing and assessment, in particular in the development and use of language certifications. This will offer further information and ideas aimed at teachers and testers with the chance to learn a little bit more about the new CEFR Companion Volume.

Neus Figueras started her career in 1981 as a teacherSchools in Catalonia (44 schools,40,000 students, 15,000 certificate exams every year) for over 20 years. She has been involved in a number of international research and development projects related to assessment at different education levels (Dialang, Speakeasy, Ceftrain, Dutch CEFR construct project, EBAFLS) and has given courses and presented in universities in Spain, in various European countries, in Asia and in the USA. She has carried out consultancy work in assessment (University of Bilkent, Turkey; BIFIE -Centre for Assessment and Innovation-, Austria; University of Saint Petersburg, Russia, Quiyas, Saudi Arabia) and in curriculum design (U.N. New York and Geneva).

She collaborates regularly with the Council of Europe in the uses and the dissemination of the CEFR in testing and assessment and is one of the authors of the Manual for Relating examinations to the CEFR (Council of Europe, 2009).

She is a founding member of EALTA (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment, www.ealta.eu.org), and was the first President (2004-7) of the Association. She is currently the coordinator of the EALTA CEFR SIG. She was granted the International British Council Assessment Award in 2015.

The webinar is free, does not need advance registration and can be accessed at: https://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/_a875541554/teasigwebinars/

In our next free webinar, we will be joined by Annie Altamirano who will be talking to us about:  Using stories to develop Art and Science projects for Primary on Thursday May 9th at 11am (CET) Children enjoy listening to stories in their mother tongue and are familiar with narrative conventions. For this reason, storybooks can provide an ideal introduction to the foreign language as they present language in a repetitive and memorable context. Storybooks can also act as a springboard for a wide variety of related learning activities.  In this session, Annie will present Arts & Crafts and Science ideas based on ‘The Little Red Hen’ that will help develop learners’ linguistic competence, observation skills, imagination and curiosity. Annie Altamirano is a teacher, teacher trainer and author. She has given teacher-training workshops in Europe, Asia and Latin America. She has written courses for children and adolescents, and developed online and digital content for CUP, Macmillan, Pearson, Cengage and the British Council and is the author of Cambridge Global English Teacher’s Resource. She is currently the Vice- President of TESOL-SPAIN. She shares her ideas in her workshops and on the posts on her website Blogging Crazy http://bloggingcrazy-annie.blogspot.com.es/ TESOL Science registration link