Teacher Educator Conference 2015

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Ensuring Quality in English Language Teacher Education

The British Council in partnership with English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U) Hyderabad will come together again to host the fifth International English Language Teacher Educator Conference (TEC15) in Hyderabad from 27 February - 1 March 2015. The underlying theme of the previous conferences was improved learning outcomes through quality teacher education and teaching. This year, we will focus on ensuring quality in teacher education in the belief that quality in teachers’ learning leads to better learning outcomes for our learners. 

The bottom line of teacher education is the quality of teacher performance in terms of its impact on the learner and indirectly on larger social transformation. (National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education 2009/10 p. 4)

The theme will allow a wide-ranging exploration of teacher education in India and beyond, with a focus on quality in both pre-service education and in-service training. Key policy initiatives and documents in India such as the Teacher Education Mission launched in April 2013, the NCFTE (cited above) and the Planning Commission of India’s 12th Five Year Plan highlight issues of quality as fundamental to all aspects of the initial and continuing professional development of teachers, whether it is delivered face to face or online, moderated or self access. 

Themes

The main theme of the conference will be 'Ensuring Quality in English Language Teacher Education' and the conference will be structured around following three sub themes - 

POLICY AND QUALITY INITIATIVES 

• developing standards and defining quality for teacher education
• incentives for implementation
• public, private and institutional initiatives
• global, national, regional and local best practice
• promoting access and inclusivity

MONITORING AND EVALUATING QUALITY 

• learning from experience and experimentation 
• teacher education programme evaluation and methods of measurement
• the impact of teacher education on learner outcomes
• qualifications, certification and frameworks
• tracking non-formal or self-directed continuing professional development

ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF CURRICULUM, MATERIALS AND METHODS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION

• efficacy of differing pedagogies and methodologies
• teacher education through digital platforms
• action research to improve classroom practice
• curriculum and syllabus development for teacher education
• modelling inclusive practices

For more information visit http://www.britishcouncil.in/teacher-educator-conference-2015