Fancy joining us for a bit of a chat tonight?

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UPDATE This chat has taken place – read the record here – but will not doubt continue elsewhere. 

There are a number of higher education institutions working with ELT trainers and teachers building capacity of educators working with international and domestic students in non-ELT disciplines here. So, this topic seems one worth exploring.

These chats can take off in any direction but here are some questions that may be thrown into the mix to get you thinking.

• What skills did you bring with you when you began in ELT?
• Which ones have you developed along the way?
• What are the strategies and skills which ELTs generally need and use?
• What are some examples of these needed and used in another teaching context (non-ELT, higher education or otherwise)?
• Which of these are transferable to teaching in other subjects / disciplines (non-ELT, higher education or otherwise)?
• How could this transfer of strategies and skills be facilitated?
• How about the skills and strategies you’ve acquired through connections with non-ELT teachers and academics?
• What’s happening in PD at your place re developing skills and strategies (as opposed to building awareness of content knowledge)?

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• #AusELT 1-page guide to Twitter
• So you have a Twitter account – now what?  (from Cult of Pedagogy)

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