April 2016

Supporting professional development

This e-newsletter shares news and information for English language teaching
professionals from the Trinity TESOL team. You can also download it as a PDF.

Conference report - focus on young learners

ELT Ireland's second annual conference
The Dublin City University campus provided a suitably
academic venue for ELT Irelands annual conference (20th
- 21st February), this year focussing on support for
teachers working with Young Learners (YL). Delegates
were able to attend opening and closing plenary sessions
as well as choosing from a good selection of optional
sessions.
The conference started with Marie Delaneys talk on managing young learner
behaviour. Recognising that much problem behaviour is a result of students
lives outside the classroom, Marys talk gave some really practical suggestions
about how to work with students to manage issues rather than exacerbate
them through confrontation.
At the close of the day, Sue Palmers insightful plenary was about Very Young
Learner (VYL) pedagogy and the need to focus on interpersonal skills for
children under the age of seven, rather than approaches to testing and
assessment more common with teenagers and adults. Sues website also gives
an account of many of the issues effecting VYL teachers and recommends
reading to help teachers working with this age group.
Another conference highlight was Shay Coynes research-based talk on
aligning parents, students and centre managers goals for YL courses. Read
her latest journal article on YL pedagogy to get a flavour of her helpful,
practice-based research.
Trinity TESOLs Ben Beaumont also spoke on the importance of laying the
foundations for research in both pre- and in-service teacher education
qualifications, like the Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate. Full
details of Trinitys portfolio of research-based teaching qualifications can be
found at trinitycollege.com/TESOL.
Find the slides for these conference sessions on the ELT Ireland website here.

International conference event

Iatefl 2016 - Birmingham, 13-16 April
Trinity College London is once again pleased to be a lead
sponsor at the annual IATEFL conference in
Birmingham, 13-16 April. This years 50th anniversary
event provides an excellent opportunity to share
practical ideas about teaching, discuss the pedagogical
foundations of what we do and, of course, meet up with
old friends from around the world.
Trinity has a strong presence at the conference this year - and with three
Trinity speakers, two Iatefl scholarship winners and sixteen affiliated speakers,
were looking forward to what we hope will be one of our biggest and best
conferences to date! Find out more at trinitycollege.com/Iatefl.
If you cant make the conference, dont worry. Many of the talks will be
streamed live on the IATEFL website and available for a further 12 months,
making them a great resource for CPD.
If youre attending the conference, come and say hello to us at the Trinity
stand (number 19) in the Exhibition Hall.

Resource review
John Hughes' ETpedia
If you want to know all the tips and stratagems that an experienced teacher
deploys to help them through the most wide-ranging of teaching contexts,
look no further than John Hughes most recent publication, ETpedia. This book
is packed full of knowledge and ideas to support novice teachers and inject
fresh energy into those whove been teaching for years.
With a 1,000 ideas to support teaching and development, which have been
helpfully broken down into 100 sections of 10 top tips, it represents a
tremendous distillation of knowledge.
As well as ideas for working with different resources and different groups,
theres also a photocopiable resource section, making this a potential lifeline
for mangers looking for cover-teaching material. Find out more
atwww.myetpedia.com.

Tell us what you think

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newsletter content of interest to EL professionals, get in touch with us via
email at tesol@trintycollege.com.
You can also get in touch with Trinity through our Contact us page or via
your local Trinity representative.

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