Date
Wednesday 19 February 2025

Introduction

Join us for the first TeachingEnglish South Asia webinar of 2025! This engaging, interactive session will focus on lesson planning, drawing on key insights from last year's webinars. We’ll revisit topics such as unlocking language through storytelling, creating inclusive classrooms for students with special educational needs, using multimodal techniques to engage learners, and teaching functional language. Together, we will design a lesson that incorporates best practices and the expert advice shared by previous panellists. Our goal is to inspire meaningful discussions on effective lesson planning, activity design, and the seamless integration of training into everyday teaching practice.

Event description

Wendy Naylor is joined by colleagues Rehab Ali from Pakistan, and Michelle Bambawale based in India - both freelance consultants on the TeachingEnglish South Asia webinar team, with experience in teaching and training. The three of them rise to the challenge of implementing key takeaways from the previous webinars, demonstrating ways to enhance learning outcomes, improve student engagement, and promote inclusive practices in lessons. Additionally, this webinar explores effective lesson planning, by emphasising the importance of writing clear lesson aims, structuring lesson stages, and setting learning objectives for individual activities. By revisiting key takeaways from earlier webinars and integrating them into a well-crafted lesson plan, we encourage an adaptive teaching approach—an ideal way to kick off the new year with fresh ideas and strategies in the first webinar of 2025! 

Who is this webinar for?

This event is aimed at teachers of English from Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Key highlights:

  • The benefits of lesson planning
  • Approaches to planning lessons
  • Review of 2024 webinars:

         o   Unlocking language with storytelling

         o   Creating inclusive language classrooms for students with special educational needs

         o   Engaging students using multimodal techniques

         o   Teaching functional language

  • Integrating Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in practice 

REGISTER NOW

When: Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Time: 16.00 – 17.00 Pakistan time | 16.30 – 17.30 India and Sri Lanka time |16.45 - 17.45 Nepal time | 17.00 – 18.00 Bangladesh time

Where: Online on Zoom and TeachingEnglish Asia Facebook page

Registration: You can register by clicking on the ‘register’ button. After registering you’ll receive an email with your attendee link.

Fee: Free

Organiser: British Council

Language: All the online sessions will be delivered only in English.

Certification: Participants will receive an e-certificate of attendance at the end of the webinar.

For any registration queries please write to TeachingEnglishSouthAsia@britishcouncil.org

About the speakers

Wendy Naylor

Wendy Naylor, a trainer in communication, language development, and teacher education, has nearly 20 years of teaching experience. She has delivered courses for all ages, covering general and business English, teacher training, and academic English. Wendy holds an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language and a Diploma in Education and International Development. She enjoys helping teachers grow by sharing experiences and best practices.

Michelle Bambawale

Michelle Bambawale, a freelance education consultant and writer, holds an M.A. in Education (Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment) from the Institute of Education, London. She supports the British Council in research, training, and evaluation of teacher education projects, both online and in person. Michelle has facilitated webinars on climate action in classrooms and co-authored the case study “Teacher Evaluation in India – Issues and Practices,” available on the British Council India website.

Rehab Mehmood

Rehab Mehmood is a dedicated teacher trainer and freelance consultant at British Council, Pakistan with a strong background in Education. She holds two master’s degrees, one in Education and the other in English literature. With over eight years of teaching experience, she has actively contributed to the TeachingEnglish webinars for educators in Pakistan and across South Asia.