IH CPD - Alastair Grant
Take a second to think about what you do in the classroom and why. How important is learning a language?
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Date: Saturday, July 20th. 2024
Hora: 10:00 - 11:30 h
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It turns out there is nothing more important: communication skills are how our students “make or lose friends” and are the “cornerstones of social raking and of professional advancement” (Bygate, 1987). So how can we guide them to meet this challenge?
Cambridge English is the undisputed leader in English language courses and qualifications worldwide, and whose exams such as the world-famous B2 First have afforded millions of people the opportunity to develop as proficient communicators in the English language.
Join us in this session where we will be exploring some tips and tricks to help your students evolve their exam skills and set them on the path to become internationally-qualified communicators to help them achieve their goals wherever their lives leads.
Alastair Grant is an experienced teacher trainer, academic director, ELT author and public speaker. He is a teacher trainer for International House Mexico, where he runs the Cambridge Delta 3 teaching diploma, and a teacher trainer for International House Montevideo, where he runs the Cambridge Delta 1 and Cambridge Delta 3 teaching diplomas. Alastair is part of the evaluation and assessment unit at the Ministry of Education for the City of Buenos Aires, and is Head of English at Colegio Nuevo de Las Lomas in Buenos Aires.
Alastair has taught on the profesorado de inglés at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Buenos Aires, where has lectured on both Discourse Analysis and Methodology. He has also taught at the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, and has been Director of Studies at International House Montevideo, at International House San Isidro and at Colegio San Luis in Victoria, Buenos Aires as well as being an Educational Consultant for Macmillan Education.
Alastair holds an Honours Degree in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Warwick in the UK, has completed the International House Certificate of Advanced Methodology, all modules of the Cambridge Delta and the Cambridge Train the Trainer Certificate.
Alastair has delivered teacher training at international conferences, at online conferences, for teachers’ associations, for a variety of publishing houses, universities and at local schools in the UK, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Italy, Romania, Serbia, and Egypt, as well as at schools in underprivileged neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires.
In 2022, Alastair founded the Together for Ukraine teacher development project, a series of free talks and webinars to support teachers from Ukraine.
Alastair is also the co-founder of the We’re All in This Together teacher development project, which was set up to support teachers worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic.
