Wow, we’ve had a great week in the Hub! On Tuesday, we launched a new feature – a fortnightly Focused Forum. From the poll in the Facebook group, the benefits and drawbacks of using coursebooks was the topic of choice and it was great to be joined by some of our members to discuss the topic together.
The Wednesday Question this week was inspired by a tweet: “Learning is underrated. Grades are overrated.” There was some engaging discussion around alternatives to graded assessment which will be interesting to explore more in the future.
Then on Thursday we were fortunate to have not one but two webinars this week! In the morning session, we were joined by Lina Gordyshevskaya and we chatted about the essentials of teaching pronunciation; then in the afternoon, James Taylor and Ilá Coimbra came along to share the Raise Up! project with us and provided some great tips on creating more diverse and inclusive classroom materials. Lots of food for thought from both of those sessions and the recordings are available to all members who couldn’t make it on the day.
Next week, we have our first Trainer Talking Time on Tuesday and then Coffee Breaks on Thursday.