Is the Future Perfect? 2024

A three-day, online, interactive festival of English language teaching looking at today’s teaching to create a better tomorrow

From Pavilion ELT and Creativity Sown

Join Pavilion ELT and Creativity Sown for our 2024 three-day online festival of learning, which will celebrate the future of English language teaching! Fantastic speakers will present on a wide range of topics each day as we celebrate the successes of change and creativity in global language teaching and consider what we need to do to be effective teachers of tomorrow.

Day 1: Shifts in teaching – who are we teaching to and how?
Day 2: Shifts in language – what are we teaching and how?
Day 3: Shifts in techniques – how are we teaching and why?

Book your ticket

Dates: 21st, 22nd and 23rd May 2024

Times: 13.00 – 17.00 BST each day

Host: Kirsten Holt, Creativity Sown

Price: £10 administration fee.

 

The administration fee covers access to all live sessions across the three-day online, interactive festival, a CPD certificate of attendance, recordings of the talks, any support material and resources from the talks, and access to exclusive discounts.

Description: The world of English language teaching is ever changing. New research, new ideas and new technologies all play a huge role, but have our teaching practices kept pace? How often do teachers give themselves a moment to stop and reflect on these changes, and how they impact their own teaching? And, how easy is it to find, understand and implement some of these changes in their teaching practices?

Our second annual three-day, online festival of English language teaching aims to help. Fantastic speakers will present on a wide range of different topics, as we explore some of the key changes and current themes in English language teaching. The first day will consider the types of people we are teaching, whilst the second day moves on to explore what we are teaching. Finally, Day 3 will round off the festival by examining the shifts in how we are teaching.

By the end of the festival, we will have celebrated the successes of change and creativity in global language teaching, teaching methods and techniques, understood more about who we are teaching and where ELT is headed and discussed what we need to do to be effective teachers of tomorrow.

Whilst we hope you will be able to join us across all three days of the festival, we also know that the dates and times might not work well for everyone. However, we are delighted that all the sessions will be recorded, and will be made available for everyone who has signed up! This means that you can watch all the sessions back later in your own time, all as part of the administration fee.

The programme so far…

 

The full programme will be confirmed here shortly! Please note, the programme, speakers and talks may be subject to change at any time. 

Day 1: Shifts in teaching – who are we teaching to and how?

Day 2: Shifts in language – what are we teaching and how?

 

Announcing our first speakers!

Don't miss our three-day, online interactive festival of English language teaching this May. We've got a really exciting programme lined up, and you can take a look at the first confirmed speakers and talks below.

 

What’s it mean it’s different, spoken grammar?

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Jon Hird

The grammar of spoken English is in a number of ways different from the grammar of written English, which is much of the grammar that learners are generally taught. This practical and interactive session considers some key features of spoken grammar and explores how we can introduce this into our teaching to help our learners better understand and use it.

 

Redesigning interactive activities for the twenty first century

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Jill Hadfield

In this practical interactive session Jill Hadfield will look at various challenges involved in designing and updating interactive materials, focusing principally on the challenge of designing online interaction. Using practical activities from the newly updated Communication Games titles (Pavilion Publishing, forthcoming), she will outline a framework that teachers can use to develop online interaction. 

 

Creating a lesson around a short story

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Sharon Ahlquist

A story which engages the learner is a valuable classroom resource for the development of reading and listening, a starting point for speaking and writing, exposure to grammar in context, and a source of vocabulary. During this interactive talk participants will try out a number of tasks designed to pique interest, support understanding and promote second language development.

 

Addressing inequality in the ELT industry

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Carol Lethaby

In this interactive talk, Carol Lethaby will examine the various factors that have contributed to pervasive and lasting gender inequality in ELT and consider what can be done about this, both in the classroom and in the industry as a whole.

Sessions will take place between 13.00-17.00 GMT each day.

Book your ticket here!