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English for Teaching: Teaching for English

Reaching teachers across Central and South Asia

You love teaching …
but you’d like to improve your classroom English…
motivate your students more…
and get more opportunities for training or development…

Does this sound like you? If so, maybe ETTE is just what you’re looking for!

What is ETTE?

The English for Teaching: Teaching for English (ETTE) project is for teachers of English living in far flung areas in the Central and South Asia region. ETTE is particularly for teachers who have not yet benefited from training or development opportunities.

ETTE helps school teachers improve their performance in the classroom by enhancing their access to materials, methods and opportunities for their professional training and development.

Why get involved?

ETTE will help you:

  • get confidence in your classroom skills
  • improve your classroom English to help you teach English using English
  • get enough materials, ideas and information so that you can develop as a teacher.

If you are a teacher trainer with experience and ideas, ETTE could help you make a valuable contribution to your community by using your skills on an important project.

Which countries are participating?

The project involves ten countries in the Central and South Asia region: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Project partners will come from all the countries in the region and the UK.

What kinds of activities are included in ETTE?

ETTE is planning to run teacher training courses for teachers in all participating countries.

In the teacher training course, there will be an opportunity for you to learn more teaching ideas, share your experience with other teachers and immediately put new ideas into practice. There will also be EL corners where you can find teaching materials.

ETTE in Bangladesh

The first stages of the project have involved us in needs assessment of  teachers working in  rural  and disadvantaged urban areas. The information obtained from our questionnaires, lesson observations and teacher focus groups  has enabled us to design teacher training courses  which address the  needs of these teachers. The teacher training courses contain a component  of language upgrade in addition to focusing on  practical methodological approaches linked into the National Curriculum.

Our partners include GoB, FLTC , ARBAN and UKBET and we will be running  15 Teacher Training Courses for primary school teachers  between now and December.

The design of teacher training courses is involving us intensively in materials development  and  3 Bangladesh trainers will be attending a 2 week materials writing event in Kazakhstan in October.
To ensure opportunities for professional development for teachers will be maximised , we are also developing a mentoring system and resource centres which will ensure teachers have access to ETTE resources pre and post course.
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