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Dear All NATECLA Members
Please find below the monthly updates, and feel free to share these updates with others who may find them useful. If you haven’t joined already, follow this link to the NATECLA Google group where members can share information and discuss aspects of teaching and learning of ESOL and Community Languages
Best wishes,
Chloe Hindmarsh
NATECLA
The Autumn edition of NATECLA News will be sent out to members later this month and contains a variety of articles, interviews and news.
NATECLA Membership and membership renewals
If you have received this update and you are not currently a member, please consider joining NATECLA. Members, please renew your membership here – pay by cheque, debit/credit card or bank transfer. Students are invited to take one year’s membership free!
NATECLA Branches
At the heart of NATECLA is the work of its branches. NATECLA has members throughout the United Kingdom. New NATECLA members are put in contact with the membership secretary of the branch nearest to them. Active branch networks organise termly training events and help foster a supportive network of teachers with ESOL teaching in common. If you would like to become more active in your branch or area, please contact us.
Day conference, Birmingham, 19th November 9am – 3pm
The next NATECLA day conference is to be held at The Fusion Centre, a new South Birmingham College centre on Digbeth High Street. Some places remain – Please see our website or email [log in to unmask]
NATECLA is pleased to announce reciprocal memberships with:
NALDIC
National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum www.naldic.org.uk
NATESOL
Northern Association of TESOL www.natesol.org
This
will help our organisations to work together to promote and safeguard the
interests of ESOL and EAL teachers and their learners, and establish reciprocal
arrangements for conferences and events.
ACTION FOR ESOL
Petition from Action for ESOL This remains open; please sign the petition if you have not already here.
NEWS
Adult Learners’ Week Awards which recognise outstanding adult learners and inspiring learning projects are a great way to celebrate your students, colleagues, family or friends. Nominate by visiting the website http://www.alw.org.uk/learning-awards email [log in to unmask] or telephone 0116 204 4200. The closing date is 5pm on Friday 27 January 2012.
Article from 4/11/11 - Home Affairs Committee concerned about 124,000 unresolved immigration cases available here
ELTons 2012 - Call for Applications! The Macmillan Education Award for Innovative Writing is open to aspiring ELT authors who have not yet published any of their work. The winner receives £1,000 and the opportunity to publish their work. Applications are judged by a panel of ELT experts and the winners are announced at an awards ceremony in London on 23 May 2012. Find out how to apply on the ELTons 2012 website. The deadline for applications is 2 December 2011. Any queries should be addressed to [log in to unmask]
Focus Group at the House of Lords - Following proposed changes to funding for ESOL, BIS undertook an equality impact assessment of ESOL published in July 2011. This resulted in further changes to funding enabling colleges to fund ESOL provision for some learners. NATECLA Chair, Judy Kirsh, joined a focus group with Baroness Margaret Sharp, Lord Timothy Boswell, ESOL teachers and specialists in the field at the House of Lords on 4 September 2011. The group discussed the changes to the funding of ESOL and the impact this was having on those teaching ESOL and their learners. The IFL have provided a summary of the focus group’s discussion, concerns and recommendations
IfL highlights concerns about teacher training funding http://www.ifl.ac.uk/policy-and-campaigns/current-policy-priorities/esol
Speak to the future is a new campaign which is highlighting the importance of languages, language learning and professional language activities for the UK. Targeting the public, media and government, their initiatives are raising awareness of the issue – and aim to bring about a step-change in attitude and policy in favour of languages. For more information and to support the campaign visit: http://www.speaktothefuture.org/
EVENTS
British Council seminar series
The seminars are free of charge and open to all EFL and ESOL teachers, from newly qualified to the experienced. Upcoming seminars as follows:
Tuesday
6 December - Leicester:
A: ESOL learners with basic literacy needs – where do I start? - Judy Kirsh
B: Language and literacy as social practice - Pauline Moon
Tuesday
13 December | London:
A: Using Cinema to Engage Young People with Citizenship - James Clarke
B: ‘Videotelling’ - Jamie Keddie
For more information and to book a place, click here.
British Council ESOL Nexus Workshop: Choosing and using Internet resources with ESOL learners. 26th November, 2011, Birmingham Metropolitan College, 10 – 12.30. No charge for attendance, light refreshments are provided. This workshop is part of an innovative project, supported by the European Integration Fund. The workshop will take a critical look at the issues raised by the use of the internet in the ESOL classroom and will give you the opportunity to apply what you learn to evaluating some selected web materials and relate this to the contexts within which you teach. To register, contact Geoff French.
NALDIC 19th Annual National Conference - EAL and Additional Needs
To be held at The Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds, Saturday 26th November 2011. This year's conference, organised in collaboration with the University of Leeds, will address the issues of EAL and additional needs. It will focus on principles of inclusion, and will consider teachers’ responses to a range of additional needs. Although now fully booked, for more information click here.
QuiTE 10th Annual Seminar – Nov 22nd 2011 British Council, London
Maintaining Standards in TESOL in the Face of Changing Market Forces
Keynote speakers include Diane Schmitt (Nottingham Trent University) and
Vaughan Jones (Praxis). Please see the QuiTE site for more details and an attendance request form.
Refugee Council Seminar 2
‘Refugee-centred versus State-centred approaches to integration: processes, practices and narratives’
Nov 30th 2011, 17:30 Council Chamber, London WC1B 5DR
The Refugee Council is organising a series of six seminars presented in partnership with The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. For more information, please see this link.
Trinity College London UK ESOL Seminars 2011
These seminars are aimed at teachers, heads of departments and decision makers at current UK ESOL Trinity centres. New/potential centres are welcome too. The seminars are free to attend and lunch is provided.
Sat 19th November 2011: Manchester
Sat 26th November 2011: London
Please register using this link. For further details please contact Janet Golding [log in to unmask]
RESOURCES AND RESEARCH
Professional Development for ESOL Practitioners in Scotland
This online guide provides information on the new TESOL qualifications available to ESOL practitioners in Scotland
FAQ podcast series - NALDIC has resumed production of the 'Frequently Asked Questions' podcast series. They can be played and downloaded from the NALDIC web site - here. You can also subscribe to the whole series on iTunes here.
The Simply Cracking Good Stories project involves encouraging writers and non-writers to produce short fiction books for immigrant adults whose oral proficiency is very low and who are just beginning to read in a second language. Some of you may have participated in Martha Young-Scholten's workshop at the Warwick conference in July. To order books and to find out how you - or those you teach - can get involved in writing fiction books for the project, visit the website here.
The Newsflash is a weekly round up of publications, information, events, funding and jobs relating to asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers for anyone who wants to keep up to date with the latest developments. This website is run by EELGA.
FE Week http://www.feweek.co.uk/index.php/about-us/
JOBS
Teacher Trainer
The UK Bangladesh Education Trust (UKBET) is looking for an experienced teacher trainer to run short courses and workshops in communicative methodology and inspire dynamic participative teaching and learning amongst English language teachers in government schools in and around Sylhet. Working from the new purpose-built UKBET Training and Resource Centre, this placement is for 6 months to one year. Flights, insurance, 3 bedroom flat, driver and allowance provided. Please send a CV and letter in support of your application to the UKBET Administrator, Judith Skinner [log in to unmask] . Closing date 23rd November; interviews on 7th December in London. N.B. Job shares considered.
Some previous volunteers were accompanied by their partner.
ESOL Lecturer at College of North West London
Salary:
£20k - 35k ~ London:
Closing date: 18th November 2011
Interview date: 2 December 2011