Category: TELLConsult_Training

TELLConsult supports views in EU publication ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’

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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’[…]

Why we also need blended forms of CPD courses in the EU Mobility Programme

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At TELLConsult Training we have been pleading with the EU #EACEA organisation  for some years now to also financially support blended forms of  courses in the #ErasmusPlus Mobility Programme. So a combination where providers of professional development courses offer an intensive 3-day face-to face, international meeting with lots of input on innovative educational concepts & Read more about Why we also need blended forms of CPD courses in the EU Mobility Programme[…]

TELLConsult to contribute to Symposium on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning in Milan

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TELLConsult senior consultant Ton Koenraad, co-chair of the EUROCALL Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group,  will be contributing to the organisation, promotion and programme of the 2019 SIG event ‘CALLmi‘ in Milan. Find an excerpt from the CfP here: CALL FOR PAPERS CALLmi: Where are we going? Current and future trends in MALL and CALL Read more about TELLConsult to contribute to Symposium on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning in Milan[…]

TELLConsult course offer updated & expanded

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TELLConsult team updated its course offer – with the latest addition on Dyslexia and EFL teaching now totalling 15 – https://www.tellconsult.eu/current-courses/  We are also proud to have been requested to organise the free 3-day course on #differentiation with the help of tablets for the Erasmus+project TABLIO https://www.tellconsult.eu/free-course-tablets-for-classroom-differentiation-and-inclusion This project multiplier event (11 – 13 March, Read more about TELLConsult course offer updated & expanded[…]

iTILT project selected as good practice of technology use in language education

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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[…]

EU Teacher Academy course content also available as OER for third parties

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Having contributed to initiatives of The Future Classroom Lab created by European Schoolnet TELLConsult is pleased to see that the collaboration options for parties offering courses also via the Teacher Academy catalogue  at School Education Gateway are being expanded. The more since we have been pleading for some time now with national agencies and EACEA Read more about EU Teacher Academy course content also available as OER for third parties[…]

Calling all LSP teachers & trainers

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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[…]

TELLConsult contributed OER to conference on big data in language & CLIL classes

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We attended and enjoyed the International conference ‘Data-Driven Learning (DDL): a scaffolding methodology for Foreign languages and #CLIL classes’ in Turin, 27-28 September 2018 https://ddlfl.weebly.com/ The event was intended to provide a bridge between researchers and school teachers. This resulted in a nice mix of interesting academic and practice-based papers & workshops, including e.g. the Read more about TELLConsult contributed OER to conference on big data in language & CLIL classes[…]

Evaluation results of TELLConsult ErasmusPlus workshop on CLIL at Leuven University

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This edition, customised  for a school in the Netherlands (more details here), based on our Course #13 ‘Language and teaching skills for the bilingual classroom’ was run as an ErasmusPlus consultancy workshop in July 2018, at Leuven University in Belgium.  The evaluation questionnaire addressed delegates’ appreciation of 7 aspects of the course, namely: course topics related activities Read more about Evaluation results of TELLConsult ErasmusPlus workshop on CLIL at Leuven University[…]

TELLConsult to contribute a workshop to the International conference Data-Driven Learning & Foreign languages and CLIL classes

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TELLConsult  will contribute a workshop on corpus-based learning materials production for CLIL & LSP to the International #conference “Data-Driven Learning: a scaffolding methodology for Foreign languages and CLIL classes”. Based on the e-CLIL components of (one of) our courses on the topic the workshop aims to familiarize delegates with open educational, corpus-based resources, tools and related Read more about TELLConsult to contribute a workshop to the International conference Data-Driven Learning & Foreign languages and CLIL classes[…]