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Stay up to date with the latest developments in the world of ELT and interact with our experts. Hear from leading authors and get practical tips for your own English classes.
Our webinars are held monthly and are completely free.
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Go to the LATAM webinar page to see our programme dedicated to Latin American countries.
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January - May 2025
Chaz Pugliese
Helping our students regain their ability to focus.
Attention and focus are key in any learning endeavor, we all know that. We also know that in this tech-riddled world, attention has become a scarce resource. We multitask too much, we let ourselves get distracted too often too easily, our capacity to focus has greatly diminished over the last 20 years or so. Can this be changed? There’s clearly no silver bullet solution to this status quo, but there’s definitely hope! In this session I will suggest a few practical, road-tested ideas that may help your students take control of their distractions, gain a sense of agency and redirect their attention.
Thursday 30 January 2025
4:00-5:00 PM London, UK
Thomas Strasser
All Access AI - because there's more than ChatGPT!
This interactive online workshop for ELT teachers will focus on digital tools and AI for their aiding lesson preparation. In this session, we will help you explore the latest digital tools and AI-powered solutions that can help you prepare for EFL-lessons more effectively. This workshop will be filled with interactive tasks and creative ideas designed to keep you engaged and motivated throughout. During the workshop, we will cover a range of topics, including:
- Updated tools and activities
- The benefits of using digital tools and AI
- How to identify the best tools for your needs (and your learners)
- Strategies for using AI-powered tools to improve your learners’ performance
Thursday 27 February 2025
4:00-5:00 PM London, UK
Chris Jory
Get ready for the world! How to develop life skills in the English language classroom.
What does it mean to be ‘real-world ready’? What are the key life skills that our teenage learners need to develop in readiness for the sometimes challenging everyday scenarios that they will encounter in their lives beyond school? In this session, we’ll look at the most important ‘soft skills’, including in the areas of self-awareness and self-expression, interpersonal communication, and other ‘21st-century’ skills such as creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. Using examples from Options, the new lower secondary course from HELBLING, we’ll look at why these soft skills are so important and how we can develop them in the English language classroom in ways that are simple, practical and effective.
Thursday 27 March 2025
4:00-5:00 PM London, UK
Megan Cherry
Challenging our ideas of differentiation in English classrooms with young learners.
No child is the same as another. Every child is unique in their looks, interests, learning styles and pace of learning. As a result all classrooms include a group of learners who have mixed-abilities, mixed interests and mixed learning styles. Differentiation is a key method for ensuring that all learners are being challenged to reach their potential. However, this can be time consuming to prepare, and difficult to manage in classes where children are young, and are pre- or early readers and writers. In this session, we will reflect on the methods which are typically used in our young learner classrooms and challenge our understanding to ensure we are meeting all of our learners at their current level of understanding and allow each child to learn at their own pace.
Thursday 15 May 2025
4:00-5:00 PM London, UK
Archive
Enjoy recordings of previous Helbling English Webinars here.
Nóra Wünsch-Nagy: Reading with young learners – Engage the imagination and boost language learning with story-based reading programmes.
Griselda Beacon: Rediscovering the power of storytelling in primary English classrooms
Mariano Quinterno: Social issues in focus for developing critical citizenship in English language education
Thomas Strasser: All Access AI. Your updated ELT toolkit – because there's more than ChatGPT!
Chris Jory: Assessment as a learning tool – a range of practical options.
Nóra Wünsch-Nagy: Make Reading Matter: support social and emotional development in young learners through stories.
Herbert Puchta: Mixing the serious with the fun: developing language and life skills with young teenagers.
Gavin Biggs: Mystery and adventure in class: how stories can inspire students.
Amir Hamidi: Transforming classrooms with PBL: integrating Sustainable Development Goals for impactful learning.
... and many more!
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