Advancing Learning: Fast-forward 2022

The teacher training team at Macmillan Education squeezed some of the best ideas we have shared with you this year into our Advancing Learning: Fast-forward.

How to Assess Project Work

Joanna Mitten explored the outcomes and skills that can be assessed during project work.

Designing and Organising Project Work Online

Lucasz Olesiak explained how to set up, conduct and evaluate engaging online tasks and projects.

Motivating Learning Online for all Students

Anna Hasper explored ways for learners to motivate themselves and ignite the fire from within!

Key Tools and Approaches to Hybrid Learning

Russell Stannard takes us through technologies and approaches to hybrid learning.

Formative assessment online, hybrid or face-to-face

Ethan Mansur showed you some of the best practices for formative assessment.

Introducing Mindfulness: practical tools to help with anxiety & burnout

Karen Liebenguth explored some techniques, including a simple breathing practice, which you can start using straight away whenever the going gets tough.

Advancing Learning: Fast-forward 2021

Tackling some Common Challenges of Distance Teaching and Learning

In this webinar, we are looking at some practical solutions to some common challenges teachers are currently facing due to COVID-19, based on Macmillan Education’s recent study.

Level Up Your Teaching with Digital Gaming

In this practical webinar, Juff Kuhn explores games not only as software, but as a literacy.

Professional Development for teachers in the ‘new normal’ Q&A

P is for Performance

This webinar explores the concept of Performance in the ELT world.

Integrating pronunciation with a coursebook-based syllabus

This webinar explores how to make the most of a coursebook’s pronunciation content, as well as some low-prep ways of exploiting pronunciation features hidden in the course.

Mediation in the CEFR: implications for learning, teaching and assessment

This webinar explores the concept of mediation and how mediation skills are used both inside and outside the classroom.

Enjoyment and Engagement in Early Literacy

This webinar concentrates on the importance of storytelling as a tool to enhance our students' listening and speaking skills.

Teaching Young Adults

This webinar will explore what thinking skills our students need to be effective in English and how we can help them develop these skills.

Positive Classroom, Positive Results

This webinar will provide various teacher-tips to discover the ingredients that go into making a thriving positive classroom that impacts positively on results.

Gamification

This webinar will give a brief introduction to gamification with some insights from research, and present how teachers might use game elements effectively in their teaching.

How English became such a tricky language to learn

In this session, Lane Greene talks about the way some of English’s unusual properties emerged throughout history.

Simple future: how do we REALLY talk about the future in English?

In this session, Malcolm Mann looks at the role formality, emphasis and sentence structure play in determining how we can and should talk about future situations.

Time Management Tips for Teachers

In this webinar, Mike Riley looks at some of the enemies of effective time management and what we can do to address them.

Teachers' Day Conference

In this webinar celebration of October’s Teachers’ Day, we lined up six presenters to give insights on hot ELT topics

Personalising Adult Language Learning

In this practical and informative session Dan Brayshaw looks at solutions to common pitfalls and time-saving ideas for activities that draw on our students’ individual experiences

Make a game out of fluency! Gamification for automaticity

The talk provides a toolkit of practical ideas for adding game elements – prizes, points and rankings – to automatic speech activities in communicative contexts.

The importance of recycling in vocabulary teaching

In this session, David Spencer investigates what it means to really ‘know’ a word, and what influence this has on how we should recycle and practise vocabulary in the classroom.

What about the fifth skill of viewing?

In this webinar Kieran Donaghy examine s what viewing is and how we can help our students become more effective viewers.

Can children be self-directed learners?

In this session Mariela Gil explores self direction in the context of language learning and how to embed opportunities in the young learners’ classroom for children.

Breaking Down Barriers To Learning

This session is for teachers of English as a Foreign Language who are looking to support all learners in the inclusive classroom setting.

Boosting confidence for child-child interaction in pre-school

In this presentation, pre-school teachers will reflect on how they feel about stepping back to encourage child-to-child interaction.

Do you know what it takes to advance your students' learning?

In this session Anna Hasper explores how students’ learning can be enhanced through applying some of the principles of cognitive science.

Teaching discourse and pragmatics a.k.a. What on earth did he mean?

In this webinar, Chia Suan Chong explores the ways we don’t often say what we really mean, and how culture can impact on what we choose to say, or not say.

Cambridge Preliminary: an overview of the new exam format

In this webinar, Malcolm Mann looks at what’s staying the same, what’s changing (in the exam and in Optimise B1), and how that will affect our students’ exam preparation.

Global Citizenship

In this talk Matthew Hayes shows that educators can play a unique role in enabling their students to participate on the global stage - whether in work or life.

Managing the madness: Strategies to promote and protect language teacher well-being

In this workshop, we look briefly at why teacher well-being is not an indulgent luxury but the foundation of good practice.

What learning 5 languages has taught me about ELT

In this webinar, Katie discusses the insights she has gained from learning several languages and how they can be applied in the classroom.

Teaching English pronunciation for the real world

This webinar will consider some new pronunciation priorities and challenges for learners and teachers of English.

Developing a growth mindset amongst teachers

In this webinar, Chia will consider the benefits of a growth mindset and how we can try and apply it to ourselves and the teachers around us.

CEFR in the Classroom: Receptive Skills

This event featured a webinar for ELT teachers and professionals working across a range of sectors.

Opening doors, building connections: the new vision of mediation in the CEFR Companion Volume and its potential for language education

This event featured a webinar for ELT teachers and professionals working across a range of sectors.

Introducing the CEFR Companion Volume: What's new from a teacher's point of view?

This is event featured a webinar for ELT teachers and professionals working across a range of sectors.

Teaching Pronunciation Skills

This webinar is free to attend and aimed at English language teachers and professionals of all levels.