The British Council shall be holding its 4th Going Global conference in London on 24-26 March 2010.
In the biggest economic meltdown in decades, international education faces tough challenges. How can we grow the international mobility of students and staff? Promote partnerships between countries and institutions? Help governments and industry create new strategies and global citizens for the future?
The conference will explore the trends and implications; explore models for change drawing on case studies from across the world; examine the barriers; and deliver frameworks for action across the following areas:
• Staff and student mobility
• Global partnerships
• Global citizens
• Policy and Leadership
For more information on conference themes, please visit our site:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal-gg4-themes
Call for Proposals is now open
The British Council welcomes all proposals, suggestions and ideas for the conference programme which should be related to the main conference themes at Going Global 4.
How to submit a proposal, please visit:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal-gg4-call-for-papers
Deadline: The deadline for submissions is 20 September 2009.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
ESL Teacher News Fall 2009
We expect a few more teaching positions for Canadian ESL teachers during 2010.
The major influencing factors are the continuing economic recovery, more stable currencies and reduced effects of the H1N1 flu virus.
The high 2009 Canadian dollar and Swine Flu motivated many international students to stay at home or choose non-North America destinations.
All Canadian ESL English schools experienced a decrease of students compared to last year. We have already witnessed a number of ESL school bankruptcies and expect more over the winter months. Many ESL schools have slashed teacher salaries, increased student-teacher ratios, fired senior staff and replaced them with unqualified or minimum qualified new staff, stopped supplying books and other cost reduction service cuts.
During 2009 we continued to see English students from Spain. Many utilized the special overseas study scholarship available to Spanish students. The rise of the Euro against both the Canadian and USA dollars has motivated some Europeans to try North American Schools and the new lower costs via the currency exchanges.
With small increases of the Brazilian Real, Korean Won, Mexican Peso and Chinese RMB we expect to see more students next summer.
More students means more teaching jobs in Canada and the USA. If you can get a job and be paid fairly for your qualifications and experience.
We recommend teaching in a stable economy with established professional teaching pay - Europe and Japan still look the best.
Original Post: ESL in Canada NEWS
TESL TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS IN TORONTO MONTREAL VANCOUVER
for those students wishing to pursue professional teacher training in recognized Career Training Institutions.
The TESOL (Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages) program provides students with the skills and knowledge to become successful as ESL/EFL teachers. It is designed to help both prospective and experienced teachers. This program is recognized by TESL Canada. Students who successfully complete this program may apply for TESL Canada’s Professional Standard Two certification.
TESOL-TYL Preparation Plus Diploma Program is designed to equip you with the language skills for teaching English as a second language to young learners (children, adolescents, and young adults), and is the perfect introduction to working with children in English and to future TESOL course work.
For additional TESL/TESOL/TEFL teacher training info email to: eslincanada@gmail.com
More later
ESL in Canada
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Blog URL
http://eslincanada.blogspot.com/
The major influencing factors are the continuing economic recovery, more stable currencies and reduced effects of the H1N1 flu virus.
The high 2009 Canadian dollar and Swine Flu motivated many international students to stay at home or choose non-North America destinations.
All Canadian ESL English schools experienced a decrease of students compared to last year. We have already witnessed a number of ESL school bankruptcies and expect more over the winter months. Many ESL schools have slashed teacher salaries, increased student-teacher ratios, fired senior staff and replaced them with unqualified or minimum qualified new staff, stopped supplying books and other cost reduction service cuts.
During 2009 we continued to see English students from Spain. Many utilized the special overseas study scholarship available to Spanish students. The rise of the Euro against both the Canadian and USA dollars has motivated some Europeans to try North American Schools and the new lower costs via the currency exchanges.
With small increases of the Brazilian Real, Korean Won, Mexican Peso and Chinese RMB we expect to see more students next summer.
More students means more teaching jobs in Canada and the USA. If you can get a job and be paid fairly for your qualifications and experience.
We recommend teaching in a stable economy with established professional teaching pay - Europe and Japan still look the best.
Original Post: ESL in Canada NEWS
TESL TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS IN TORONTO MONTREAL VANCOUVER
for those students wishing to pursue professional teacher training in recognized Career Training Institutions.
The TESOL (Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages) program provides students with the skills and knowledge to become successful as ESL/EFL teachers. It is designed to help both prospective and experienced teachers. This program is recognized by TESL Canada. Students who successfully complete this program may apply for TESL Canada’s Professional Standard Two certification.
TESOL-TYL Preparation Plus Diploma Program is designed to equip you with the language skills for teaching English as a second language to young learners (children, adolescents, and young adults), and is the perfect introduction to working with children in English and to future TESOL course work.
For additional TESL/TESOL/TEFL teacher training info email to: eslincanada@gmail.com
More later
ESL in Canada
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Blog URL
http://eslincanada.blogspot.com/
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Canada in Top 5 Countries - Reading Writing Math
In late August, the Education Quality and Accountability Office released results of its annual assessments of Ontario students’ abilities in reading, writing and mathematics (Grade 1 to 6) and Grade 9 math. The official word from EQAO, an arm’s length agency of the Government of Ontario:
The way the EQAO tests work is that they rate the students at four levels. Level 1 is quite basic, Level 2 is competent, Level 3 is good, Level 4 is excellent, in relation to whatever the curriculum expectations for the grades being assessed.
We’ve got 67% of kids who are at Level 3, but we’ve got another almost 30% who are at Level 2, so in fact, the number of kids who are at Level 1 in Ontario has fallen by 50% in the last five years. It’s gone from 10 or 11% to about five per cent. So if you were to take a kind of a competence level, we’re at 95%, not 67. That’s good. And if you look at the cases where there are international assessments using comparable assessment vehicles, then Canada and Ontario do very well. We’re always among the top five countries.
There’s been a substantial effort over the last five years in Ontario to improve educational outcomes. There’s been a whole literacy and numeracy strategy for elementary schools and a substantial amount of effort by the Ministry of Education and many school boards, including a lot of professional development to bring teachers up to speed on new approaches to teaching and learning. This is all showing in the results. It is reflected in secondary schools, too – the high school graduation rate has gone up from 68% to 77%.
Read more about Professor Levin and his work
Blog URL
http://eslincanada.blogspot.com/
The way the EQAO tests work is that they rate the students at four levels. Level 1 is quite basic, Level 2 is competent, Level 3 is good, Level 4 is excellent, in relation to whatever the curriculum expectations for the grades being assessed.
We’ve got 67% of kids who are at Level 3, but we’ve got another almost 30% who are at Level 2, so in fact, the number of kids who are at Level 1 in Ontario has fallen by 50% in the last five years. It’s gone from 10 or 11% to about five per cent. So if you were to take a kind of a competence level, we’re at 95%, not 67. That’s good. And if you look at the cases where there are international assessments using comparable assessment vehicles, then Canada and Ontario do very well. We’re always among the top five countries.
There’s been a substantial effort over the last five years in Ontario to improve educational outcomes. There’s been a whole literacy and numeracy strategy for elementary schools and a substantial amount of effort by the Ministry of Education and many school boards, including a lot of professional development to bring teachers up to speed on new approaches to teaching and learning. This is all showing in the results. It is reflected in secondary schools, too – the high school graduation rate has gone up from 68% to 77%.
Read more about Professor Levin and his work
Blog URL
http://eslincanada.blogspot.com/
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