11.07.08

To the attention of the English Language Teachers of secondary schools

The British Council is launching a new project: ETTE - English for Teaching: Teaching for English.

Our partner: Republican In-Service Teacher Training Institute

The ETTE project is aimed at:

• improving the classroom performance of teachers of English, especially those teaching in remote areas;
• increasing teachers’ access to a variety of developmental methods and ELT materials.

With this aim the British Council is forming an ETTE team of trainers. The selected applicants will first participate in the preliminary teacher training course to be conducted on 23-25 of July in Almaty.

The ETTE team trainer will receive the UK training on:

• methodology;
• materials design/adaptation;
• developing trainer skills

The ETTE trainer will then

• cascade the training to other teachers in the region;
• design/adapt teaching materials;
• support English teachers in their teaching process

Teachers of remote areas will get an opportunity to learn more teaching ideas, share their experience with other teachers and immediately put new ideas into practice. There will also be resource centres where they can find materials for teaching. The project will last till 2010.

If you wish to become an ETTE trainer and you

• are experienced in modern ELT methodology for secondary teaching;
• are aware of the school teachers’ needs in our country;
• are able to evaluate training given and respond flexibly to further needs;
• teach and are based at a secondary school;  
• are willing and able to cascade ETTE training in English;
• are able to travel around the country and work with teachers in peripheral areas;
• are able to speak the local language or common language of communication;
• have at least 3  years of  English language teaching experience;
• are a supportive, flexible, open minded team-player;
• have ICT skills

Please, complete this application form and send before 14 July, 2008 to

Ardak Bekturova
English Language Manager
British Council
F +7 727 2720 113
ardak.bekturova@kz.britishcouncil.org

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15.01.07

Are you English language teacher? Do you want to be a part of the big project?
Together with NATEK (National Association of Teachers of English in Kazakhstan) we are launching a new project to strengthen associations of teachers of English.

This project will help teachers' associations to expand and develop their activities and memberships be delivering training in marketing and communications, project and events management and web design.

The project will kick off with a seminar in Astana in March. The application form for the seminar must be returned at skerimku@yahoo.com and anar.nurbayeva@kz.britishcouncil.org by Sunday 21 January 2007.

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16.05.06

New resources pages....
We have introduced three new resource pages for teachers:

Literature in ELT
Weekly classroom activity
Pronunciation resources

These pages will be updated on a regular basis to ensure fresh content.

If you want to know more about our past events and activities please visit news archive page.