Teaching in challenging circumstances

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Teaching in Challenging Circumstances is a series of webinars led by Cambridge author Chris Sowton, whose handbook "Teaching English in Challenging Circumstances" we published in 2021. Each week, Chris is joined by an expert to provide support and answer live questions from teachers impacted by the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

Episódios

  1. Teaching in Challenging Circumstances with Chris Sowton & Linda Ruas

    23/05/2022

    Teaching in Challenging Circumstances with Chris Sowton & Linda Ruas

    In this final session of our series, Chris Sowton will be talking to Linda Ruas. The focus will be on helping students achieve their potential. Using Chris' book Teaching in Challenging Circumstances as a reference, we will discuss how to motivate and empower students, check what they have learned, create assessments and perform well in exams.

    1 h 2 min
  2. Teaching in challenging circumstances with Chris Sowton and Brian Lally

    25/04/2022

    Teaching in challenging circumstances with Chris Sowton and Brian Lally

    In our 4th session on Teaching in Challenging Circumstances, Chris Sowton is joined by Brian Lally. Brian has a broad range of educational experience, including teaching, leadership, teacher and headteacher training, safeguarding and child protection, and programme management. Over the last few years, he has been working on a range of projects encompassing non-formal schooling and higher education provision for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, and is currently nearing completion of his PhD on "Educational experiences of Syrian refugees in Lebanon: voices from the margins".

    1 h
  3. Teaching in challenging circumstances with Chris Sowton and Sarah Mercer

    25/04/2022

    Teaching in challenging circumstances with Chris Sowton and Sarah Mercer

    In our third session on Teaching in Challenging Circumstances, Chris Sowton is joined by Professor Sarah Mercer, Head of the ELT Research and Methodology Department at the University of Graz, and author of Teaching Wellbeing. Her main area of current research explores language teacher wellbeing, looking at how mentally and physically healthy teachers are more engaged, motivated and efficient. In this webinar, Chris and Sarah will focus on Chapter 30 of Teaching in Challenging Circumstances, "Caring for your students and for yourself", which is clearly a crucial area for Ukrainian teachers in these difficult times.

    1 h
  4. Teaching in challenging circumstances with Chris Sowton and Nick Bilbrough

    25/04/2022

    Teaching in challenging circumstances with Chris Sowton and Nick Bilbrough

    In this session, Chris Sowton is joined by Cambridge University Press author Nick Bilbrough from the Hands-Up Project (https://www.handsupproject.org/). Nick brings wide experience of not only working in occupied territories but also of using theatre, drama and role play in supporting education in challenging circumstances.

    55 min
  5. Teaching in Challenging Circumstances with Chris Sowton and Scott Thornbury

    31/03/2022

    Teaching in Challenging Circumstances with Chris Sowton and Scott Thornbury

    In this session, our moderators Daryna Sizhuk and Tetiana Shelepko and host Chris Sowton are joined by teacher, teacher trainer and author Scott Thornbury who is also the editor of "Teaching in Challenging Circumstances". The team shared information such as teaching with no or limited resources and motivating learners in difficult and often traumatic circumstances. Chris and Scott answered live questions throughout the session with an audience of more than 100 teachers from across Ukraine.

    59 min
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Teaching in Challenging Circumstances is a series of webinars led by Cambridge author Chris Sowton, whose handbook "Teaching English in Challenging Circumstances" we published in 2021. Each week, Chris is joined by an expert to provide support and answer live questions from teachers impacted by the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

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