On behalf of DEIMP partner TELLConsult, Ton Koenraad , attended the first meeting with the Dutch national DEIMP partnerschools at Hogeschool Inholland in the Hague.The idea is to organize several of this meetings just to discuss the progress of the DEIMP-project and the specific activitities in which the partnerschools are involved, but also to build Read more about Latest TELLConsult Project activities[…]
At TELLConsult we just had two intensive weeks of activities related to some of our EU projects. We have been promoting the #DEIMP contributions to the @MiTEconference 5th annual International Conference on Mobile Technology in Teacher Education in #Sidney on the project’s Twitter account @DeimpAdmin EU ErasmusPlus Project ‘Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies. Another promotion Read more about Recent EU project related activities[…]
At TELLConsult we strongly support the views expressed in ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’ by the EU Commission ‘European Group on Ethics and New Technologies (EGE)’ to offer upskilling and lifelong learning opportunities of the current workforce for a changing labour market. With innovation in education and language teaching as our specific focus we Read more about TELLConsult supports views in EU publication ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’[…]
The September Newsletter published by the EU School Education Gateway was dedicated to language learning. One of the featured articles entitled ‘Loquor ergo sum: new ideas for language teaching’ listed the iTILT project ‘Interactive teaching in languages with Technology’ as an example of good practice of promoting technology supported approaches in language learning. See the summary Read more about iTILT project selected as good practice of technology use in language education[…]
As asscociate partner in this project on the innovation of the intitial curriculum in teacher education we pass on an edited version of the project’s call for cooperation. For TELL’s related offer for inservice teacher training eligible for EU grants see this page: https://www.tellconsult.eu/current-courses/ See e.g. this course on pedagogy for tablet use in the classroom Read more about ITELab’s invitation to Teacher Educators to complete short online survey[…]
Great response results so far to CATAPULT’s survey on training needs among teachers involved in discipline specific language teaching & freelance LSP (teacher) trainers. Thanks to an intensive campaign including direct mail and ongoing posts on various social media to interest language teachers to share their views and potential needs for professional training for the Read more about EU project Catapult’s first activity nearing its goal[…]
Calling all LSP teachers and trainers (Version in Dutch below) Dear colleague, We would like to ask for your contribution to a survey about Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), as part of a European project called CATAPULT . We seek to identify potential needs in the professional training of teachers of LSP & discipline specific communication Read more about Calling all LSP teachers & trainers[…]
After having heard the good news of getting an ErasmusPlus KA2 Grant for the application of the CATAPULT project idea the team came to Paris on September 14 for the kick-off meeting. The coordinator, Cédric Sarré, managed to put us all up at the beautiful CIEP buildings in Pont de Sêvre, Read more about Productive Kick-off of the ErasmusPlus project “CATAPULT”, the latest EU project TELLConsult co-initiated.[…]
This year’s edition of the annual EUROCALL conference took place in Jyväskylä, Finland. Delegates appreciated the excellent (1) organisation of this 4-day event and the great facilities at the University of Jyväskylä, beautifully located at a lake. TELLConsult, represented by Ton Koenraad, offered the workshop ‘ Models, strategies and resources produced in EU projects for m-learning pedagogy development and Read more about Open access to our EUROCALL 2018 workshop materials on mobile learning in teacher education[…]
Skills mismatches: EU businesses are losing millions, and will be losing even more! According to this study, companies in most of the EU’s Member States are witnessing a growing shortage of workers with skills tailored to their needs. As in our project proposal ‘CATAPULT’ we highlighted the language dimension of this issue, we are glad Read more about Another successful ErasmusPlus project grant application initiated by TELLConsult.[…]