Diversity and Inclusion Workshop

Friday, November 23rd, 1:15 PM – 4:45 PM
The workshop is now full. Thank you for your interest.
The IATEFL Inclusive Practices & SEN SIG are delighted to be working with JALT and the British Council in this training focused on building more Inclusive Classrooms. Working with language learners who have additional challenges to overcome can seem daunting, particularly if there does not seem to be much support from the organisations where we are working. However, by coming together for these kinds of events we not only extend our practical expertise but also offer each other moral support and the chance to build a network of professionals who are facing the same issues as us and share the same goals and ideals.
There will be three sessions:
Session one: Identifying learners with learning differences
What learning differences are and how to identify them
Session two: Inclusive practices
Discuss case studies from a range of English teaching contexts in Japan, from elementary school to adult senior learners
Practical strategies to use inside and outside the classroom
How teachers can adapt materials to aid inclusion
Session three: Are we all included and equal?
What inclusion means and how it can help not just learners, but everyone involved from teachers and managers to administration staff and school owners
What diversity, inclusion and equality look like in the workplace
Panel discussion Q&A
Bios:
Varinder Unlu has worked in ELT for 26 years in all contexts from private language schools to FE and HE, teaching students of all ages. She has been a DOS/Academic Manager since 2002. She is currently Academic Manager at Glion Institute of Higher Education. She is a teacher trainer for both Cambridge CELTA and Trinity TESOL, a materials writer, a conference speaker and, the coordinator of the Inclusive Practices and SENs IATEFL SIG.
Laura Pratt – Originally from Australia, Laura gained her CELTA qualification in 2005 and a Graduate Diploma in Education in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) and Italian from the University of Melbourne in 2006. She is also currently studying for a Distance MA in Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham.
Laura has taught English in Japan since 2011, joining the British Council in 2015. Laura is currently a teacher-trainer, working on the Leaders in English Education Project for the British Council.
David Cruse/British Council – David is On-Site Courses and ICT Coordinator at the British Council in Tokyo and is also a Delta Local Tutor. Since 2001, he has taught English in both the UK and Japan. He holds a Delta and MA in Applied Linguistics and TEFL. His current interests include materials creation, vocabulary learning, and teacher development.